Oliver Trotman

Associate London
Oliver is an associate in the Banking and Finance group in London.

Oliver advises private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies and direct lenders on a wide range of financing transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance as well as high yield financings, refinancings and debt restructurings. Oliver has worked in London and Frankfurt and has spent six months on secondment to Ares Management’s London office working with their opportunistic credit funds.

Representative experience, including prior to joining Weil, includes advising:

Sponsors

  • Armira on the private credit financing of its acquisition of Factor Eleven.
  • Bain Capital on the financing of its acquisitions of:
    • Centrient Pharmaceuticals (formerly DSM Sinochem Pharmaceuticals);
    • Fedrigoni (and subsequent acquisitions of Gruppo Cordenons and Ritrama); and
    • Zellis (formerly NGA UK).
  • Blackstone on the financing of its acquisition of Clarion Events.
  • CapVest on the financing of its acquisition of Datasite Global Corporation.
  • EG Group on the financings for its acquisitions of:
    • Woolworths Group’s petrol division in Australia;
    • 762 forecourt convenience sites in the U.S. from The Kroger Group; and
    • Esso Deutschland GmbH (1000 Esso service stations in Germany) from Exxon Mobil Corporation.
  • Inflexion in connection with the private credit financing for Inflexion and Informa PLC to acquire Novantas, Inc. concurrently with the contribution by Informa PLC of Informa FBX LLC and related entities.
  • MidEuropa on:
    • the private credit financing of its acquisition of a majority stake in Optegra;
    • the refinancing of its portfolio company Hortex; and
    • the refinancing of its portfolio company Imlek.
  • Partners Group on the financing of its acquisitions of:
    • Rovensa; and
    • Ammega (formerly Ammeraal Beltech and Megadyne).
  • Triton on the financing of:
    • its recommended takeover offer for Clinigen Group plc; and
    • its acquisition of Sunweb Group.

Direct Lenders

  • Bridgepoint Credit in connection with a back-leverage investment in a European web-hosting business.
  • Two private credit funds on the financing of TA Associate’s acquisition of Adcubum and tech11.
  • A private credit fund on the financing of Nordic Capital’s acquisition of Ascot Lloyd.
  • Advising a number of other private credit funds in connection with other acquisition financings.

Stressed

  • Anchorage Capital and CVC Credit on the bank-bond refinancing of Ideal Standard International and the subsequent 2023 SSN exchange offer.
  • Vue International on its consensual recapitalisation as part of which ownership of the group passed to its senior lenders.

Prior to joining Weil, Oliver was an associate at a leading international law firm.