Izabela Prager

izabela.prager@lw.com

+44.20.7710.1000

Profile

Izabela Prager is an associate in the Corporate Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins.

She advises clients on international capital markets transactions and securities regulation. Ms. Prager represents investment banks, private equity firms, and companies in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.

Ms. Prager holds an LLM from Stanford Law School and a PhD from the University of Warsaw. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and Max Planck Institute (Hamburg). Her doctoral research focused on the regulation of proxy advisors.

Experience

Ms. Prager’s representative matters include advising:

Goldman Sachs, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Mizuho, Deutsche Bank, Santander, Rabobank, Intesa Sanpaolo, MUFG, National Westminster Bank, NatWest, Société Générale, Lloyds HSBC, ING, RBC, and SMBC:
- As placement agents in connection with the private placement of £1,200 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes by Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc,
- As initial purchasers in the offering of £1,075 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Secured Notes by Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc,
- As initial purchasers in the offering of €545 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Secured Notes by Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc,
  in connection with the financing of the public-to-private acquisition of Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc, the fourth largest grocery retailer in the United Kingdom, by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, a global private equity manager, at an enterprise value of £9.7 billion
The lenders in Aston Martin’s new comprehensive financing package across the equity and debt tranches
Ithaca Energy, Inc., upstream oil and gas company focused on North Sea production, in connection with its offering of US$625 million 9% Senior Notes due 2026
The initial purchasers in connection with the offering of €500 million senior unsecured notes, €800 million senior secured notes, and US$500 million senior secured notes of INEOS Quattro, a multinational chemicals company
Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley in bond-to-loan exchange with a side-by-side bond refinancing and loan amendment and extension for Synlab, awarded High Yield Deal of the Year at IFLR's Europe Awards 2021
EG Group, the third largest independent convenience store operator in the world, in the €1.26 billion-equivalent bond financing of its acquisition of Cumberland Farms, one of the largest independent retailers of convenience merchandise and fuel products in the New England states, New York, and Florida
CVC and its portfolio company Domestic & General, the UK’s leading appliance care specialist, in the bridge financing of the sale of a circa 30% stake in D&G to an entity ultimately wholly owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and in the refinancing of D&G’s existing capital structure with new bond issuances and revolving credit lines