Edward Hyde

 Ed specialises in cross-border acquisition & leveraged finance for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies (including refinancings and financial restructurings).

Ed trained at Weil and has worked for an extended period on secondment in the Capital Markets team at CVC. Ed also previously spent time on secondment to Goldman Sachs’ private equity and direct lending arm.

Representative experience at Weil includes advising:

• Apax on the financing for its acquisition of Zellis
• A&M Capital Europe on its financing for the acquisition of STOK Emballage
• CVC on the financing of its acquisitions of a stake in the French Football league and acquisitions of La Piadineria, Sogelink, Panzani and System C
• Montagu’s financings of Maritime Intelligence, EPFR, ISI, Wireless Logic, Oasis, DEAS, Servelec, ITRS and Funeral Partners
• Advent International on the IPO financing for InPost, and subsequently for InPost on its acquisition of Mondial Relay
• Sun European Partners’ on the financing of its acquisition of SLG
• Bain Capital on its $3 billion financing package for the acquisition of a 60% stake in Kantar from WPP Group
• SumUp, the payment solutions fintech, on several debt finance raises
• Howden on various debt financing matters
• The Ritz Hotel (London) Limited on its senior and mezzanine facilities
• Bain Capital and Advent International on the financing of their acquisition of Concardis