Brendan Macreadie
Counsel, Finance
Brendan Macreadie acts for borrowers, banks, alternative lenders and other institutions on a wide variety of secured and unsecured domestic and multijurisdictional transactions, including general corporate financings, leveraged buyouts, real estate financings, fund financings, restructurings and subordinated debt structures.
Bio
Mr. Macreadie’s representative transactions include advising:
- Arrow Global in connection with various financings for its funds
- Black Diamond Capital Management, L.L.C. in connection with the financing of its $425 million acquisition of Hexion Inc.
- Borr Drilling:
- in connection with its $1.54 billion high-yield offering of senior secured notes and its $200 million super senior revolving credit facility
- on its $34 million senior revolving credit facility
- Capgemini SE on the financing aspects of its $3.3 billion acquisition of WNS (Holding) Limited
- Castlelake in connection with the $740 million senior secured financing for the Abra Group
- Central Group and SIGNA Group in connection with the financing of their £4 billion acquisition of Selfridges
- a leading U.K. investment firm in the establishment of a new NAV facility for one of its funds, which was arranged by NatWest
- Crosstree Real Estate Partners in connection with various financings for its funds
- CVC Capital Partners in relation to:
- the financing of its acquisition of Sunday Natural
- the repricing of the €1.2 billion credit facilities of its portfolio company, Sebia
- Danaos Corporation in connection with its $2.2 billion out-of-court debt restructuring
- 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 investment in Spencer Place Development Company Limited to finance the acquisition and development of Spencer Place in Dublin
- the provision of mezzanine facilities to the owner of the Doncaster shopping centre
- Fortiana Holdings Limited in relation to the financing of its $1.5 billion acquisition of Highland Gold Mining Limited
- FTV Capital on the financings of its acquisitions of:
- N2F
- FundApps
- SteelEye
- Horvik Limited in relation to the financing of its preconditional mandatory offer to acquire Trans-Siberian Gold plc
- Radian on the financing aspects of its $1.7 billion acquisition of Inigo Limited
- Roust Corporation in connection with its $1.1 billion prepackaged Chapter 11 reorganisation
- Sampo plc on the debt financing for its £1.66 billion takeover bid for Hastings Group Holdings plc
- The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) on four separate financings (including financings carried out by monetising long-term commodity sale agreements) raising over $2 billion in aggregate
- Triple Private Equity on the financings of its acquisitions of:
- SmartSearch
- Legal Benchmarking Group
- Credas Technologies by its portfolio company SmartSearch
- The Lawyer by its portfolio company Legal Benchmarking Group
Credentials
Education
- GDLP, College of Law, New South Wales, 2011
- LL.B. (Hons), University of Sydney, 2010
- B.C., University of Sydney, 2008
Admissions
- England & Wales
Brendan Macreadie
Counsel, Finance
brendan.macreadie@skadden.com