Brendan Macreadie

Mr. Macreadie’s recent representative transactions include advising:

• Central Group and SIGNA Group in connection with the financing of their £4 billion acquisition of Selfridges;
• Horvik Limited in relation to the financing of its preconditional mandatory offer to acquire Trans-Siberian Gold plc;
• Fortiana Holdings Limited in relation to the financing of its US$1.5 billion acquisition of Highland Gold Mining Limited;
• Sampo plc on the debt financing for its £1.66 billion takeover bid for Hastings Group Holdings plc;
• NCR Corporation in connection with the financing of its US$1.7 billion acquisition of Cardtronics plc;
• Crosstree Real Estate Partners in connection with the financing for Crosstree Real Estate Special Situations Fund III;
• Arrow Global in connection with various financings for the Arrow Credit Opportunities Fund, its first pan-European NPL Fund;
• DigitalBridge Group, Inc. on numerous matters, including in connection with: its acquisition of the Abraaj Group’s Latin America private equity platform; its investment in a joint venture with U+I Group plc; its €346 million loan-on-loan facilities arranged by Morgan Stanley; its investment in Spencer Place Development Company Limited to finance the acquisition and development of Spencer Dock in Dublin; and the provision of mezzanine facilities to the owner of the Doncaster shopping centre;
• The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation on four separate financings (including financings carried out by monetising long-term commodity sale agreements) raising over US$2 billion in aggregate;
• HC-One in connection with the refinancing of its existing facilities and the financing of its £300 million acquisition of Bupa Care Homes Limited;
• Danaos Corporation in connection with its US$2.2 billion out-of-court debt restructuring; and
• Roust Corporation in connection with its US$1.1 billion prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganisation.