Scott Colwell

Mr. Colwell's experience includes advising:

• The dealer managers in connection with the offer to exchange €1,385 million of Nidda Healthcare Holding’s outstanding 3.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2024 for €1,385 million of its new 7.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2026
• Nordic Capital on a recommended cash offer in connection with acquiring Advanz Pharma Corp. Llimited, a specialty pharmaceutical company with a strategic focus on complex medicines, and on the related offering of €475 million and £335 million Senior Secured Notes
• The initial purchasers on the bank and bond financing for ICON plc's acquisition of PRA Health Sciences, Inc., creating a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization
• The senior secured noteholder committee on the €1.8 billion debt and equity recapitalization of Selecta, a Swiss headquartered pan-European coffee and vending machine business
• Walnut Bidco plc on the bank and bond financing for the public-to-private acquisition of Oriflame, a leading beauty company based in more than 60 countries, by members of the af Jochnick family.
• The initial purchasers and arrangers on the €16 billion financing for acquisition of SFR by Numericable S.A. and refinancing of existing debt, which included approximately €12 billion of notes issued by Numericable and its parent Altice
• The initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank, of US$5.2 billion of senior secured notes by Numericable-SFR S.A., which is the largest single-tranche high yield bond issuance to date
• The initial purchasers of €4.7 billion of notes issued to fund the acquisition of the Portuguese telecommunication assets of the former Portugal Telecom from Oi S.A.
• The initial purchasers, led by Goldman Sachs, of US$2.75 billion of senior secured notes issued by Altice Financing S.A.
• Goldman Sachs, as dealer manager, on an exchange offer for certain existing notes of Edcon Limited, the largest non-food retailer in Southern Africa, for new notes in connection with a complex restructuring of the Edcon group
• The initial purchasers, led by Morgan Stanley, of £280 million of senior secured notes issued by the Cognita group, a leading operator of private schools
• The initial purchasers, led by Credit Suisse, Barclays, and Morgan Stanley, of €590 million of senior secured notes issued by Interoute, a leading European ICT and cloud computing company
• Nordic Capital on the financing of its acquisition of the Lindorff Group, a Norwegian-based credit management services provider, which included €1.45 billion of notes issued in five tranches and two subsequent bond offerings totalling €480 million
• CVC on the financing of its acquisition of the Domestic & General Group, which included £500 million of notes issued in three tranches
• The initial purchasers on the US$3.7 billion high yield bond offerings issued in connection with the US$23.3 billion merger of Virgin Media and Liberty Global
• J.P. Morgan and Credit Suisse in a €1.2 billion two tranche high yield bond offering by Kabel BW in connection with its acquisition by Liberty Global, the transaction was awarded EMEA High-Yield Deal of the Year by IFLR
• Virgin Media in a US$750 million senior secured notes due 2026
• The lead managers in five offerings of senior secured notes by orphan special purpose vehicles established by UPC Broadband Holding B.V. for an aggregate of approximately €3.0 billion
• PAI Partners SAS in a CHF350 million and US$425 million offering of senior secured notes to finance the acquisition of Swissport International Ltd
• J.P. Morgan, in an offering of £250 million and US$425 million of senior secured notes by Manchester United