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Overview
William Lam is a partner in the Global Finance practice at Paul Hastings and is based in the firm ’s London office. William’s experience includes advising sponsors, corporate borrowers, banks and other financial institutions across a broad range of banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged and acquisition financings.
Representations
William’s recent experience includes advising:
- EQT on financing for the proposed take private of Fortnox
- Verisure on the establishment of a new incremental facility and capital markets issuance
- Galderma, an EQT portfolio company, in connection with their post-IPO financing
- CVC on the financing in connection with its acquisition of Jagex
- Shelf Drilling Holdings, Ltd. on their refinancing and capital markets issuance
- KSL Capital Partners on the financing in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Third Space, the U.K. luxury health and fitness brand
- An EQT-led consortium on financing for the £4.5 billion recommended cash offer of Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
- EG Group on a series of complex financing transactions
- TPG on the financing in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in DOC Generici
- CVC on the financing in connection with its acquisition of RGI
- EQT on the refinancing of the IVC group, together with the establishment of various incremental facilities, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing and merger with Evidensia
- EQT on the refinancing of Anticimex
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of Recipharm
- EQT on the financing in connection with its acquisition of thinkproject
- An EQT-led consortium in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Nestlé Skin Health
- EQT on the financing in connection with its acquisition of, and subsequent divestment in, each of: schülke and Rimes
- Equistone on the financing in connection with its acquisition of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services and subsequent sale
- EQT on the financing in connection with the acquisition of the SUSE business
- Sivantos, an EQT portfolio company, on the financing in connection with its merger with the Widex group to form WS Audiology
- CVC on the carveout financing for Mooney S.p.A., having acted for CVC in connection with the original acquisition of the Sisal group
- EQT on the refinancing of the Sitecore business, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing
- The ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders on financing for the PizzaExpress restructuring
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of the Kuoni Travel group, together with a subsequent refinancing and divestment
- The arrangers on the financing of the acquisition by Messer Industries of North America assets from Linde and Praxair
- The arrangers on the refinancing of Eir Limited, an Irish telecommunications company
Matters may have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.