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Overview
Harry Lee is an associate in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Harry’s experience includes advising banks, credit funds and sponsors across a broad range of finance transactions, with particular emphasis on cross-border acquisition financings. Harry focuses on representing creditors in both syndicated and private credit financings.
Harry has previously been seconded to the London office of Golub Capital’s direct lending team and Deutsche Bank’s leveraged finance legal team.
Education
- University of Law, Legal Practice Course, 2016
- University of Law, Graduate Diploma in Law, 2015
- University of Leeds, Bachelor of Arts, Geography, 2014
Representations
- The arrangers on the financing of Goldman Sachs Alternatives’ acquisition of Synthon
- The arrangers on the refinancing of the Applegreen group (a Blackstone owned portfolio group)
- The arrangers on the financing to support the acquisition by E3X of the Aenova Group
- The arrangers on TeamSystem’s €1.1 Billion High Yield Bond and RCF Financing
- The financing sources for Blackstone’s acquisition of a majority stake in Winthrop Technologies Limited
- The lender on the refinancing of HornetSecurity for the acquisition of Vade
- Abry Partners on the financing of their acquisition of Chambers and Partners from Inflexion
- KKR Credit as unitranche lender and the super senior revolving lenders relating to the acquisition of the Lloyds Register Inspection business by Goldman Sachs PIA
- KKR Credit as unitranche lender and the super senior revolving lenders relating to the acquisition of Advania AS by Goldman Sachs PIA, and subsequent incremental financings in relation to Advania’s bolt-on acquisitions of Valtti, Content+Cloud and Azzure IT
- The arrangers of a senior secured bridge and super senior revolving credit facility relating to the acquisition of Biofarma Group by Ardian
888 Holdings plc in relation to its £2.2 billion acquisition of William Hill International - The lenders in relation to the acquisition of CMC Machinery by KKR, a manufacturer of automated packaging solutions in Italy
- The senior bank lenders on the comprehensive restructuring of KCA Deutag, an international oil & gas services company
- Hg Capital in relation to their acquisitions of FE fundinfo, Commify, and TrackUnit
- Carlyle Group in relation to their acquisition of Praesidiad Group
- The arrangers in relation to a syndicated financing for Partners Group’s acquisition of Schleich, a producer of toys in Germany
- Pemberton Asset Management as direct lender on the provision of debt financing in support of Triton’s acquisition of the Sunweb Group, a leading European travel group
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.