Tania Bedi

Ms. Bedi’s experience includes advising:

Borrower-side Experience

• Liberty Global in connection with its €3.95 billion equivalent dual currency loan financing package in relation to its takeover offer to acquire Dutch listed cable company Ziggo N.V. with approximate value of €10 billion*
• Liberty Global in connection with the financing for its approximate €3.16 billion acquisition of Germany's third-largest cable TV operator Kabel BW Erste Beteiligungs GmbH, from Swedish private equity group EQT Partners AB*
• Liberty Global on the Unitymedia offering to exchange KbW bonds for new Unitymedia bonds in connection with the combination of the KbW Group into the Unitymedia Group together with a potential new Unitymedia bond offering for cash to fund certain redemptions*
• Liberty Global Inc. in connection with the provision of credit facilities, in an amount equal to €225 million, to Chellomedia Programming Financing Holdco B.V., a subsidiary Liberty Global Inc.*
• United ACM Holdings, a subsidiary of Liberty Global Inc., on its US$2.19 billion acquisition of Swiss cable company, Cablecom Holding AG*
• UPC Financing Partnership on a US$500 million term loan facility used to refinance existing debt*
• UPC Broadband Holding B.V. on the €3.3 billion refinancing of its existing debt. The institutional tranche of the debt, together with a previous tranche, represents one of the largest in total for a European non-investment grade company and one of the largest Euro tranches*
• UPC Broadband Holding B.V. in a €1.2 billion refinancing*
• UPC Distribution Holding B.V. in the refinancing of its bank debt (approximately €2.5 billion). This involved amendment and restatement of existing facilities, reviewing various security documents and negotiations with lenders in relation to the same*
• Essent N.V. (largest energy company in the Netherlands) in relation to the provision of certain letter of credit facilities and revolving credit facilities (€1.5 billion) *

Sponsor-side Experience

• The mezzanine lenders, including Highbridge, MV Credit, Partners Group, JPMorgan and a multinational private equity firm in the €1.82 billion acquisition of BSN Medical, a leading German medical supplies manufacturer,  by Swedish private equity house EQT*
• TPG in the €1.2 billion secondary buyout acquisition of Ontex N.V., from Candover Partners Limited. The debt financing was supplied by Goldman Sachs and Bank of America*
• TPG Capital in connection with its US$560 million acquisition of a 30% stake in Saxo Bank A/S, the Danish securities and forex brokerage, and asset management firm from Banco Espirito Santo SA and General Atlantic LLC*
• The mezzanine lenders providing €395 million of secured mezzanine debt in connection with financing and structuring the acquisition of Swedish security group, Securitas Direct AB, by Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman*
• Certain mezzanine lenders to KCA Deutag Oil Services Group, including funds managed by a global investment management company, EIG Management Company, LLC, and GoldenTree Asset Management LP, in connection with KCA's financial restructuring*
• A syndicate led by Bain Capital Credit in connection with providing €170 million of mezzanine debt to support the acquisition by Hellman & Friedman of a majority stake in Wood Mackenzie, a leading UK energy and mining research provider*
• Goldman Sachs European Special Situations Group in connection with a number of investments*
• Nordic Capital in relation to the restructuring and advising on strategy in relation to certain existing debt  facilities of its portfolio companies, Luvata Oy and the Eco Group (€599 million €650 million respectively)*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham