Henry Gee

Henry advises on leveraged finance transactions, with a particular focus on high-yield bond offerings. Henry has experience advising sponsors, corporates, underwriters and lenders on a range of bank, bond and alternative financings, including committed financings, direct and syndicated lending, and complex, cross-border Rule 144A and Regulation S high-yield bond offerings. Henry also has experience with liability management transactions, including debt exchange and tender offers.

• Represented EquipmentShare.com Inc on its USD 500 million 8.000% senior secured second lien notes offering, with Citibank leading the syndicate of 13 initial purchasers. This was the company’s fourth offering in 18 months.
• Represented the initial purchasers on Zorlu Energy’s USD 800 million 11.000% senior sustainability-linked notes offering.
• Represented Erdemir on its debut USD 750 million 8.375% senior unsecured high-yield bond offering and subsequent “tap” offering of an additional USD 200 million of its 8.375% senior unsecured notes. The original issuance was, at the time, the largest single-tranche issuance out of the region.
• Represented the joint bookrunners on Pegasus Airlines’ USD 500 million 8.000% million senior unsecured high-yield bond offering and concurrent abbreviated tender offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding USD 375 9.250% million senior unsecured notes.
• Represented Carlsberg on the financing arrangements for its successful GBP 3.3 billion public-to-private takeover of Britvic plc.
• Represented the initial purchasers on Encore Capital Group, Inc.’s upsized USD 500 million 9.250% senior secured high-yield bond offering, its debut dollar high-yield bond offering.
• Represented Unikmind Holdings Limited on the financing arrangements for its successful USD 1.6 billion public-to-private takeover of Kape Technologies plc, a leading digital security software provider. The financing package included a holdco loan and a term loan, and the takeover was, at the time, one of the largest UK "P2P" transactions of the year.
• Represented EquipmentShare.com Inc on its debut USD 640 million 9.000% senior secured second lien notes offering, with Goldman Sachs leading the syndicate of 12 initial purchasers. This was one of the largest first-time high-yield bond offerings of 2023.
• Represented the initial purchasers on Liberty Costa Rica’s (a Liberty Latin America subsidiary) sustainability-linked financing. The B Loan/B Bond financing package consisted of a USD 50 million term loan and a USD 400 million 10.875% sustainability-linked high-yield bond.
• Represented a syndicate of 10 underwriters on Teva Pharmaceutical's SEC registered four-tranche USD 5 billion (equivalent) (upsized from USD 4 billion) debut sustainability-linked high-yield bond offering. This transaction was the largest-ever offering of sustainability-linked notes, and the first-ever issuance by a generic medicine company. Concurrently, represented the dealer managers in connection with Teva Pharmaceutical's successful 6-tiered priority acceptance tender.

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