Edward Hyde

Ed specialises in cross-border acquisition & leveraged finance for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies (including refinancings and financial restructurings).

Ed trained at Weil and has worked for an extended period on secondment in the Capital Markets team at CVC. Ed also previously spent time on secondment to Goldman Sachs’ private equity and direct lending arm.

Representative experience at Weil includes advising:

• CVC on the financing of its acquisition of a stake in the French Football league, acquisitions of La Piadineria, Sogelink, Panzani and System C, and various bids including for DB Schenker
• Montagu’s financings of DEAS, EPFR, Funeral Partners, ISI, ITRS, LLI (formerly Maritime Intelligence), Miraclon, Oasis, Servelec, Wireless Logic and Multifonds
• Apax on the financing for its acquisition of Zellis, and the add-on financing for the acquisition of Benify
• Blackstone on the financing of its acquisition of Sediver
• Advent International on the IPO financing for InPost, and subsequently for InPost on its acquisition of Mondial Relay and various other financing matters
• Ardian on the financing for the acquisition of Masco Group
• KLAR Partners on the financing for the acquisition of Ventro Group
• A&M Capital Europe on its financing for the acquisition of STOK Emballage
• SumUp, the payment solutions fintech, on several debt finance raises
• Sun European Partners’ on the financing of its acquisition and subsequent sale of SLG
• Bain Capital on its $3 billion financing package for the acquisition of a 60% stake in Kantar from WPP Group
• Howden on various debt financing matters
• Bain Capital and Advent International on the financing of their acquisition of Concardis