Cabot Credit Management Acquires Hillesden Securities

June 08, 2015

London – Paul Hastings LLP announced that it has represented Cabot Credit Management (Cabot), a leading acquirer and manager of consumer debt, on its acquisition of debt purchaser Hillesden Securities Ltd – trading as dlc – from Faccenda Investments. The deal has seen Cabot pick up £3.3 billion face value of debt across 188 portfolios and 1 million customer accounts. The acquisition will be financed largely though existing cash facilities plus a senior secured bridge.

Paul Hastings team was led by London corporate partner Garrett Hayes, with FinTech partners Ben Regnard-Weinrabe and Ashley Winton. Ashley Winton said “We were delighted to bring our combined expertise of Consumer Credit, privacy law and M&A to Cabot, a new client, and to allow us to demonstrate our ability to execute complex transactions in a very short time period.”

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