Ashley Ken is a Finance associate in London. Ashley acts for private equity sponsors, financial institutions and direct lenders on a wide range of multi-jurisdictional leveraged and acquisition financings. He has worked in London and Tokyo, and speaks English, Spanish and French.
Representative experience includes acting for:
- Inflexion Private Equity Partners on the financing of its acquisition of GRC Software and Services Assets from Marlowe plc.
- The direct lenders in connection with the €850 million unitranche facilities and €105 million ssRCF in support of KKR’s acquisition of APRIL Group, a leading French insurance broker.
- CVC on the financing of their bid for Singe Use Support GmbH.
- The arrangers in connection with the senior secured term loan and RCF in support of KKR’s acquisition of IVI-RMA, a global fertility treatment group, and subsequently the direct lenders and the mandated lead arrangers in the pivoting of the syndicated financing to a privately placed financing.
- The lead arrangers in connection with the financing to support the acquisition by 888 Holdings plc of the international (non-US) business of William Hill at an enterprise value of £2.2 billion.
- Permira on its financing in connection with its portfolio company Safti.
- The arrangers in connection with the $39 billion acquisition by AstraZeneca PLC of Alexion Pharmaceutical, Inc., the largest acquisition financing and largest acquisition of a U.S. company of 2020.
- The lenders in connection with a $600 million senior secured notes offering and a €65 million RCF for Cedia Finanz GMBH, a leading global manufacturer of filter tow products owned by Blackstone.