Hendrik Smit advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, corporates, banks, funds, and other financial institutions on a broad spectrum of high-stakes finance matters, with a particular focus on cross-border acquisition financing.

Hendrik advises clients on a range of leveraged finance transactions and corporate financing matters, helping them navigate complex debt capital structures and financings, including:

  • Syndicated loan financing
  • Bank/bond financing
  • Bridge financing
  • Private credit financing
  • Junior capital
  • Post-IPO financings
  • Public-to-private takeover financing
  • Margin loans

He draws on extensive transactional experience and a comprehensive understanding of market terms, as well as two secondments with Goldman Sachs, to deliver keen market insights and pragmatic transactional advice.

Hendrik’s representative clients include:

Sponsors

  • Bridgepoint
  • EQT
  • Platinum Equity

Lenders

  • Bank of America 
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Goldman Sachs
  • JP Morgan
  • Morgan Stanley

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice, BPP Law School, 2010
  • LLB Law, Cardiff University, 2009

Practices