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:

• KLAR Partners on the financing for the acquisition of Ventro Group
• 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
• Blackstone on the financing of its acquisition of Sediver
• Apax on the financing for its acquisition of Zellis, and the add-on financing for the acquisition of Benify
• Ardian on the financing for the acquisition of Masco Group
• Montagu’s financings of DEAS, EPFR, Funeral Partners, ISI, ITRS, Maritime Intelligence, Miraclon, Oasis, Servelec, Wireless Logic and Multifonds
• A&M Capital Europe on its financing for the acquisition of STOK Emballage
• Advent International on the IPO financing for InPost, and subsequently for InPost on its acquisition of Mondial Relay and other financing matters
• 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
• SumUp, the payment solutions fintech, on several debt finance raises
• Howden on various debt financing matters
• The Ritz Hotel (London) Limited on its senior and mezzanine facilities
• Bain Capital and Advent International on the financing of their acquisition of Concardis