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Shilpa Rajagopal

Legal Director
London
About

Shilpa Rajagopal has experience with leveraged and acquisition finance and has worked on a range of bilateral, syndicated, secured and unsecured facilities.

Shilpa has worked on matters advising senior lenders, subordinated and alternative debt providers, borrower clients and private equity houses. Shilpa has experience advising on senior debt facilities, unitranche facilities, first out/last out facilities and super senior facilities.

In 2019, Shilpa completed a secondment to HSBC’s mid-market financial sponsors team in London.

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

    TECHNOLOGY
  • Pemberton Asset Management on the refinancing of the HIG owned Corona Corporate Solutions group which completed in July 2018.
    • INSURANCE
  • Investec Bank plc on facilities for the Granite Underwriting Group which completed in July 2018.
    • HEALTHCARE
  • Hayfin Capital on the provision of acquisition financing facilities for the Ireland headquartered GC Aesthetics Group, a leading international cosmetic group which completed in November 2018.
  • LDC (Managers) Ltd in relation to an acquisition of a healthcare provider business which completed in February 2020.
  • Credit Suisse, BlackRock, Hermes and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on the acquisition financing package provided to Partners Group in connection with the acquisition of Key Retirement Group which completed in July 2017.
    • ENERGY
  • Preem AB, Swedish based oil refinery group in relation to its borrowing base and term loan refinancing facilities which completed in November 2019.
    • EDUCATION
  • HSBC UK Bank plc, AIG, Hermes and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc on their senior facilities in connection with the acquisition of Law Business Research by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners which completed in March 2018 and was refinanced in November 2019.
  • HSBC UK Bank plc, AIB, Investec Bank plc and Bank of Ireland in connection with the financing of GL Education which completed in December 2017 and was refinanced in March 2018 and February 2020.
    • HOSPITALITY
  • HSBC UK Bank plc in connection with the provision of senior debt facilities for the acquisition and operation of several franchises from Kentucky Fried Chicken which completed in November 2017.
  • Proprium and C&C in connection with the provision of term facilities made available by ICG Alternative Investment Limited in relation to the acquisition of AT Brit Holdings Limited which completed in September 2018.

Languages
  • English
Education
  • College of Law, Moorgate, Legal Practice Course, 2014
  • College of Law, Moorgate, Post Graduate Diploma in Law, 2013
  • London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc, Empires, Colonialism and Globalisation, 2012


    London School of Economics and Political Science, BA, International History, 2011

Prior Experience

  • 2016 to date, lawyer, DLA Piper
  • 2014 to 2016, trainee solicitor, DLA Piper

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    Phone

    +44 (0) 20 7153 7540
    (Work, London)
    +44 (0) 7885262425
    (Work)