Dan Maze

Dan’s experience includes advising:

• The bookrunners on various recent term loan B amend-and-extend and repricing transactions, including Axplora, Motor Fuel Group, Morrisons, IFS, Xella, IU Group, and WSH Investments 
• BNP Paribas, Mizuho, and SMBC on the €760 million term loan B and €95 million delayed draw facilities for the refinancing of indebtedness of Trescal
• The bookrunners on the cross-border refinancing for gategroup Holding AG and its subsidiaries, consisting of a €675 million term loan B, a US$500 million term loan B, and a CHF 300 million multicurrency revolving credit facility
• A group of 22 mandated lead arrangers on the €8.65 billion US$ and Euro senior secured credit facilities and senior secured notes for CD&R’s acquisition of a 50% stake in Opella, the consumer health division of Sanofi
• The lead arrangers on the US$8.3 billion financing for Atlas Investissement’s public tender offer for the shares and SDRs of Millicom
• The mandated lead arrangers on the £1.6 billion term loan B and high-yield bonds for Motor Fuel Group’s acquisition of 340 petrol forecourts from Morrisons
• Deutsche Bank on the financing of the acquisition by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners of Valoriza Servicios Medioambientales, the environmental services subsidiary of the Sacyr group
• JP Morgan as mandated lead arranger on the cross-border US$130 million term loan B credit facility and SEK2.1 billion sustainability-linked revolving credit facility for Oatly
• A group of direct lenders on the financing for EQT Infrastructure’s acquisition of a majority stake in Trescal, a global leader in calibration services
• A group of direct lenders on the financing for EQT’s acquisition of Envirotainer, the leading global provider of mission-critical biopharma transport services
• The mandated lead arrangers on the £6.6 billion term loan B, revolving credit and high-yield bridge facilities for CD&R’s take-private acquisition of Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC
• Credit Suisse, Barclays, and HSBC as lead arrangers on the term loan B and revolving facilities for S4 Capital, the digital-first marketing services group
• Deutsche Bank, Natixis, and Société Générale as mandated lead arrangers on the €1.93 billion cross-border senior secured credit facilities, senior secured notes, and senior notes financing for Banijay Group's acquisition of Endemol Shine
• The lead arrangers on the US$350 million bridge loan for Impala Platinum's take-private acquisition of North American Palladium
• The lead arrangers on the first and second lien facilities for the acquisition of WSH Investments by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
• The mandated lead arrangers on the €410 million term loan and revolving credit facilities provided to 3i portfolio company, Weener Plastics, to refinance existing debt and acquire Proenfar, a Colombia-based packaging group
• Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Agricole on the €2.625 billion cross-border senior secured facilities for Altran’s acquisition of Aricent Technologies
• UBS as sole underwriter of the €320 million first and second lien facilities for BC Partners’ acquisition of Pronovias, a Spanish bridal wear designer
• The mandated lead arrangers on the €1.625 billion senior credit facilities for Lone Star's acquisition of the Xella Group
• UBS, JP Morgan, Nomura, Royal Bank of Canada, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch as mandated lead arrangers on the €790 million covenant-lite senior secured facilities for the acquisition of Keter Plastic by BC Partners, as well as the incremental facilities for the bolt-on acquisitions of ABM Italia and Adams Manufacturing
• The mandated lead arrangers on the senior secured facilities for EQT's take-private acquisition of Swedish public company, IFS AB
• Citibank as a mandated arranger on the senior facilities provided to Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic to acquire a 49% stake in Network International, the Emirati payments provider, as well as advising Citi on the conventional term loan and murabaha facilities provided to Network International for the follow-on acquisition of Emerging Market Payments Holdings (Mauritius) Limited
• EQUATE Petrochemical Company in connection with the US$6 billion bridge facility for the acquisition of ME Global, as well as the US$5 billion conventional and murabaha term and revolving facilities established for the refinancing of the bridge facility
• The mandated lead arrangers on the €6 billion cross-border bank and bond financing for the acquisition by Altice S.A. of Portugal Telecom from Oi S.A.
• The mandated lead arrangers on the US$22 billion cross-border bank and bond financing provided to Altice and Numericable Group for the acquisition of French telecoms operator SFR
• Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, and HSBC as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the US$555 million cross-border, covenant-lite first and second lien facilities provided to Montagu Private Equity for the acquisition of Rexam plc’s pharmaceutical devices and prescription retail packaging divisions
• Credit Agricole, Goldman Sachs, Nomura, and Natixis as mandated lead arrangers in connection with the €818 million senior covenant-lite facility arranged for the management buy-out of Ceva Sante Animale