United Kingdom
Richard Hughes
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Richard Hughes is a leveraged finance lawyer and his practice focuses on all areas of leveraged finance, including private equity-backed leveraged buyouts, management buyouts and buy-ins, corporate M&A and recapitalisations, acquisitions, real estate finance. He also has substantial experience in the venture debt and growth capital markets.
He advises private equity firms, portfolio and other companies and lenders across various sectors included financial institutions, technology, life sciences and healthcare.
EXPERIENCE
His recent experience includes advising:
- G Square on its acquisitions of (1) Ability Matters, (2) Clacton Dental Care and (3) C.T. Dent and Cavendish Imaging Limited.*
- Graphite Capital on its acquisitions of (1) City and County Healthcare Holdings and (2) Hanson Wade and (3) its refinancing of its acquisition of Opus Talent Solutions.*
- Mayfair on its acquisitions of (1) Tangle Teezer and (2) Seraphine.*
- Lloyds Development Capital on its acquisition of Wifinity, a Gigabit Internet Service Provider, with products and services connecting over 6 million people a year.*
- ECI on its acquisition of Travel Chapter and its refinancing of its acquisition facilities in connection 4Ways.*
- Halo Technology, a portfolio company of Inflexion Private Equity on (1) the sale of Halo Technology to Amphenol Corporation, a leading designer and manufacturer of electrical, electronic, and fiber-optic connectors and interconnect systems, sensors, and cable and (2) on its acquisition of Solid Optics, a global provider of compatible transceivers, high-speed cabling and multiplexers.*
- Queen’s Park Equity on its acquisitions of (1) Sagacity and (2) Nebula and (3) its refinancing of its acquisition of One Beyond.*
- TA Associates on its acquisitions of (1) ITRS, (2) Compusoft and (3) DocuNordic.*
- Lock 8 on the refinancing of its acquisition of EnergySys Limited.*
- Accel-KKR on its acquisition of Payprop, a leading processor of rental payments for the property management industry.*
- Biocon Biologics on its USD1.2bn financing for the acquisition of global pharmaceutical firm Viatris, Inc.*
- New Balance Athletics Shoes on the establishment of its revolving credit facility with a global bank.*
- Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its acquisition of Prime Global Medical Communications Limited.*
- The creditors in the Selina Hospitality plc restructuring, subsequent administration and enforcement.*
*Denotes experience gained at previous firm.
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