William Lam is a counsel in the Finance Department at Latham & Watkins. His experience includes advising sponsors, corporate borrowers, banks, and other financial institutions across a broad range of banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged and acquisition financings.
Profile
Experience
Mr Lam’s recent experience includes advising:
- TPG on the financing in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in DOC Generici
- CVC on the financing in connection with its acquisition of RGI
- EQT on the refinancing of Anticimex
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of Recipharm
- EQT on the financing in connection with its acquisition of each of: schülke; thinkproject; and Rimes
- An EQT led consortium in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Nestlé Skin Health
- Equistone on the financing in connection with its acquisition of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services and subsequent sale
- EQT on the financing in connection with the acquisition of the Suse business
- Sivantos, an EQT portfolio company, on the financing in connection with its merger with the Widex group to form WS Audiology
- EQT on the refinancing of the IVC group, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing and merger with Evidensia
- CVC on the carveout financing for Mooney S.p.A., having acted for CVC in connection with the original acquisition of the Sisal group
- EQT on the refinancing of the Sitecore business, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing
- The ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders on financing for the PizzaExpress restructuring
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of the Kuoni Travel group, together with a subsequent refinancing
- The arrangers on the financing of the acquisition by Messer Industries of North America assets from Linde and Praxair
- The arrangers on the refinancing of Eir Limited, an Irish telecommunications company
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
- England and Wales (Solicitor)
Education
- BCL, University of Oxford
- LLB (Hons), The University of Sydney (Sydney Law School)
- BCom, The University of Sydney
Practices
News & Insights
February 12, 2024
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Cross-practice team represents CVC on the acquisition by it and Haveli Investments of leading video games developer and publisher.
June 30, 2022
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Latham Advises TPG on Acquisition of Majority Interest in DOC Generici
Investment will further enhance DOC Generici’s leadership in Italy’s generic pharmaceutical market.
March 11, 2022
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February 19, 2021
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April 7, 2020
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