Andrew O'Neill

Andrew’s representative transactions include advising:

Private Equity Sponsors

• Hellman & Friedman on the refinancing of Verisure Group’s €1.25 billion TLB, €1.86 billion TLA, and €950 million RCF, in connection with Verisure’s €13.7 billion IPO
• TA Associates and Odealim on the financing for the acquisition of Assurimo
• TA Associates on its £570 million take-private acquisition of FD Technologies plc, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange
• TA Associates, Montagu Private Equity, and Harvest on the financing for the acquisition of Firstance
• TA Associates on the refinancing for its acquisition of Spanish technology company EsPublico
• Carlyle and SierraCol Energy Limited on the latter’s sale to Prime Infrastructure
• Exponent Private Equity on the acquisition of Hippo Digital

Lenders

• A syndicate of arrangers led by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Mizuho in connection with US$40 billion of bridge facilities provided to SoftBank Group Corp. to finance investments in OpenAI and for general corporate purposes
• The arrangers on the €2.55 billion bridge financing for BW Gestão de Investimentos’ public tender offer for shares issued by Verallia
• The arrangers on a €700 million bridge facility in connection with Metlen Energy & Metals £6 billion listing on the London Stock Exchange
• The arrangers in connection with the refinancing of Biofarma’s Capital Structure, including the issuance of €500 million new Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes and the entering into a new revolving credit facility for an amount of €135 million
• The arrangers on two successful repricings of their €1,050 million Term Loan B facility with Boels Rental