William Lam
Counsel
London
william.lam@lw.com
+44.20.7710.1136
PRACTICES
- Banking
- Private Equity Finance
INDUSTRIES
EDUCATION
- BCL, University of Oxford,
- LLB (Hons), The University of Sydney (Sydney Law School),
- BCom, The University of Sydney,
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
William Lam is a counsel in the Finance Department at Latham & Watkins. His experience includes advising sponsors, corporate borrowers, banks, and other financial institutions across a broad range of banking and finance transactions, with a particular focus on leveraged and acquisition financings.
EXPERIENCE
William’s recent experience includes advising:
- Verisure on the establishment of a new incremental facility and capital markets issuance
- Galderma, an EQT portfolio company, in connection with their post-IPO financing
- CVC on the financing in connection with its acquisition of Jagex
- Shelf Drilling Holdings, Ltd. on their refinancing and capital markets issuance
- KSL Capital Partners on the financing in connection with the acquisition of a majority stake in Third Space, the UK luxury health and fitness brand
- An EQT-led consortium on financing for the £4.5 billion recommended cash offer of Dechra Pharmaceuticals PLC
- EG Group on a series of complex financing transactions
- TPG on the financing in connection with its acquisition of a majority interest in DOC Generici
- CVC on the financing in connection with its acquisition of RGI
- EQT on the refinancing of the IVC group, together with the establishment of various incremental facilities, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing and merger with Evidensia
- EQT on the refinancing of Anticimex
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of Recipharm
- EQT on the financing in connection with its acquisition of thinkproject
- an EQT led consortium in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Nestlé Skin Health
- EQT on the financing in connection with its acquisition of, and subsequent divestment in, each of: schülke and Rimes
- Equistone on the financing in connection with its acquisition of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services and subsequent sale
- EQT on the financing in connection with the acquisition of the SUSE business
- Sivantos, an EQT portfolio company, on the financing in connection with its merger with the Widex group to form WS Audiology
- CVC on the carveout financing for Mooney S.p.A., having acted for CVC in connection with the original acquisition of the Sisal group
- EQT on the refinancing of the Sitecore business, having acted for EQT on the original buy-out financing
- The ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders on financing for the PizzaExpress restructuring
- EQT on the financing in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of the Kuoni Travel group, together with a subsequent refinancing and divestment
- The arrangers on the financing of the acquisition by Messer Industries of North America assets from Linde and Praxair
- The arrangers on the refinancing of Eir Limited, an Irish telecommunications company