EXPERIENCE

Michael's representative transactions include advising:

• The underwriters on the €1 billion senior bond issue by FORVIA (formerly Faurecia), one of the world's largest automotive equipment suppliers, as well as on its tack-on offering of €200 million 5.5% senior unsecured notes due 2031 and concurrent tender offer to purchase for cash €950 million 7.25% sustainability-linked senior notes due 2026
• Eutelsat on its inaugural high-yield bond consisting of €600 million 9.975% senior secured notes due 2029 and a concurrent tender offer regarding its existing €800 million 2.00% bonds due 2025
• The initial purchasers in connection with a €600 million 5.750% senior secured notes due 2030 issued by Boels TopHolding, a leading equipment rental company with operations primarily in central and northern Europe under the brands Boels and Cramo, to finance the acquisition of Riwal, a supplier of several logistics and storage companies
• Accorinvest on its €750 million inaugural high-yield bond offering and subsequent €650 million bond issue 
• Asmodée in connection with the issuance of €600 million 5.75% senior secured notes due 2029 and €340 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2029
• Novafives on the issurance of €425 million floating senior secured notes due 2029
• The initial purchasers in Tereos’ €350 million high-yield senior notes offering
• FNAC-Darty  on its first high-yield debt securities refinancing and the placement of a new €550 million senior notes due April 2029
• The banks in connection with Faurecia’s €700 million of sustainability-linked senior notes due 2026
• The underwriters of Faurecia’s €705 million rights issue
• Derichebourg, a leading global provider of environmental services, in its inaugural €300 million green notes offering
• J.P. Morgan and other banks in connection with the €2.8 billion bank/bond refinancing of Biogroup, the leading private medical lab services company in France and Belgium
• BNP Paribas and the other initial purchasers in connection with the inaugural high-yield offering of Tereos, a leading global agro-industrial company
• J.P. Morgan and others as initial purchasers in connection with the inaugural high-yield offering and subsequent add-on issuance of high-yield bonds by Rubis
• Loxam, the leading European equipment rental group, in connection with its €500 million high-yield refinancing and its €1.4 billion financing for the acquisition of Ramirent