Biography
Alex is experienced in debt products across the spectrum, including syndicated loans, high-yield bonds, unitranche facilities, second liens, mezzanine debt and holdco PIK.
Alex is named on Financial News’ Rising Stars of European Finance List for 2024.
Alex has twice worked on secondment at Bain Capital Private Equity, most recently as maternity cover for their Head of European Capital Markets, with responsibility for leveraged finance and capital markets activities across their European portfolio (including raising financing commitments for their public takeover bid for Caverion, syndicating financings for Inetum, House of HR and Fedrigoni, and implementing a refinancing exchange offer for Stada). Alex also previously spent time on secondment to Oaktree Capital’s private equity team and to Weil’s Hong Kong office.
Representative experience at Weil includes advising:
- Bain Capital on its senior and second lien facilities for the acquisition of Valeo Foods and on its incremental financing for the acquisition of IDC Foods.
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the financing for its portfolio company Busy Bees.
- Bain Capital on its financing for the acquisition of Kantar (and the financing for its bolt-on acquisition of Numerator) and Kantar’s subsequent incrementals, repricings and amend & extend transaction.
- Bain Capital on the fully consensual and comprehensive recapitalization transaction of the Consolis Group.
- Advent International on the refinancing for its portfolio group Aareon and the hard staple financing in connection with its sale of Aareon.
- Apax on the financing for its successful bid for Zellis.
- A&M Capital Europe on its financing for the acquisition of IB Group, and of a majority stake in GBUK Group.
- PSP on the financial restructuring of Keter.
- Bain Capital on its syndicated financing for the acquisition of Inetum.
- Bain Capital on its financing for the acquisition of Deltatre.
- Advent International on the financing for its merger of TSG and Clearent into Xplor.
- Lone Star on the financing for its take-private of McCarthy & Stone plc.