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Overview
Karan Chopra is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. He advises clients on a range of cross-border leveraged, investment grade and fund finance transactions at all levels of the capital structure including senior, super senior, second lien and PIK and across syndicated and private credit financings.
Education
- BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course, 2007
- University of Bristol, Bachelor of Laws (LLB), 2006
Representations
Mr. Chopra's experience includes advising:
Syndicated Deals
- The initial purchasers and mandated lead arrangers in the offering of €465 million senior unsecured notes and entry into a €1.73 billion senior facilities agreement for BC Partners’ and CPPIB’s acquisition of the Ceramtec Group
- The initial purchasers and mandated lead arrangers in the offering of €400 million senior secured notes, €300 million senior unsecured notes, and the entry into a €750 million and US$725 million senior facilities agreement by the Klockner Pentaplast Group (a Strategic Value Partners portfolio company)
- The mandated lead arrangers in the €290 million senior financing for Investindustrial’s acquisition of CSM Bakery Solutions
- The mandated lead arrangers in the €760 million senior financing for Ardian’s acquisition of Agfa Healthcare’s IT Business
- The initial purchasers and mandated lead arrangers in the offering of US$550 million senior secured notes and the entry into a US$205 million equivalent senior facilities agreement by Liquid Telecommunications
- The initial purchasers and mandated lead arrangers in the offering of €605 million senior secured notes and entry into a €160 million revolving facility agreement for Bain Capital’s acquisition of the Engineering Group
Private Credit
- The underwriters of the senior financing for BC Partners’ acquisition of the Davies Group
- The underwriters of the senior financing for BC Partners’ acquisition of the Valtech Group
- The underwriters of the senior financing for BC Partners’ acquisition of the Tentamus Group
- The underwriters of the senior financing for Warburg Pincus’ acquisition of the Minesoft Group
- The underwriters of the senior financing for SK Capital’s acquisition of the Ipackchem Group
- The underwriters of the senior refinancing of the Portman Dental Group
- The underwriters of the senior refinancing of the Morris Group
- The underwriters of the senior refinancing of the Engineered Stone Group
- The underwriters of the PIK Facility in connection with BC Partners’ acquisition of the IMA Group
Investment Grade
- The mandated lead arrangers in the US$30.85 billion bridge facilities agreement entered into by Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited to part fund the acquisition of Shire plc
- The mandated lead arrangers in the £485 million senior refinancing of the Bakkavor Group
- The mandated lead arrangers in the £150 million and US$145 million senior refinancing of Genus Group
news
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders in Simpro’s Acquisition of BigChange - October 30th, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders in TA Associates and Francisco Partners Investment in Orisha - October 23rd, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Jefferies, Barclays, BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, NatWest, and UBS on Cerdia’s $900 Million High Yield Bond and RCF Amendment - October 3rd, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders in the Acquisition of Harvest France SAS - September 3rd, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Funding Sources on TeamSystem’s €1.1 Billion High Yield Bond and RCF Financing - August 1st, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised the Lender in Refinancing of HornetSecurity for Acquisition of Vade - March 8th, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Goldman Sachs and BNP in Salt Mobile’s €150 Million Term Loan Facility - March 5th, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Golub as Sole Lender in TA Associates and Five Arrows Investment in Agilio Software - February 23rd, 2024
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders in TowerBrook’s Acquisition of Team Eiffel - December 8th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Earns Top Ranking in Chambers UK 2024 - October 20th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders in Civica’s £1.1 Billion Club Unitranche Refinancing - September 13th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Advised Lenders on CapVest Acquisition of Kerridge Commercial Systems - July 26th, 2023
- Paul Hastings Again Receives Top Rankings in Chambers UK 2023 - October 20th, 2022
- Paul Hastings Adds Band One Finance Team - July 18th, 2022