Shawn Anderson

shawn.anderson@lw.com

+44.20.7710.4757

Profile

Shawn Anderson is a corporate partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins. He has significant experience representing private equity sponsors, issuers, and investment banks in complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including debt and equity offerings, acquisition financings, and liability management transactions, with a particular emphasis on issuances of high-yield debt securities. Shawn also regularly advises companies, including foreign private issuers, on securities law compliance and corporate governance issues, and in restructurings and private financings.

He is recognised as a Notable Practitioner by IFLR1000 2022 for Capital Markets: Debt.

Prior to attending law school, Shawn was a newspaper reporter and editor in Upstate New York.

Experience

Shawn’s experience includes advising:

A consortium led by Advent, Cinven, and RAG-Stiftung on the complex and multi-layered financing aspects of their acquisition of the elevator division of ThyssenKrupp AG, the largest private equity buyout in Europe in a decade at the time*
An ad hoc group of Matalan first-lien noteholders in connection with a new liquidity injection related to COVID-19, which resulted in a private placement of new super priority notes*
PizzaExpress, a portfolio company of Hony Capital, on its holistic recapitalization and restructuring, in particular structuring issues with respect to outstanding notes and new money financings*
Barclays, J.P. Morgan, and a consortium of over fifteen investment banks in multiple high-yield and investment grade bond offerings by Aker BP*
Galapagos, a portfolio company of Triton, on its balance-sheet restructuring, in particular structuring issues with respect to outstanding notes and new money financings*
Citigroup and J.P. Morgan in connection with a €1.1 billion bond offering to finance Bain Capital and Cinven’s public-to-private acquisition of shares in STADA Arzneimittel, a German pharmaceutical company
Goldman Sachs, HSBC, and J.P. Morgan in connection with a €1.1 billion bond offering to finance Advent International, Bain Capital, and Clessidra’s acquisition of Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI), an Italian payments banking group; awarded Europe High-Yield Bond of the Year by International Financing Review
J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs in connection with a US$16.6 billion multi-tranche bond offering to finance Altice and Numericable’s acquisition of SFR, a French mobile provider; awarded Global Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisition Finance at AMLaw Global Legal Awards
EQT and Auris Luxembourg in connection with financings related to their acquisition of Siemens Audiology Solutions (now Sivantos)
Young’s Seafood in connection with various financing matters
Tullow Oil in connection with multiple offerings of senior notes
Goldman Sachs in connection with a senior subordinated notes offering by an SPV
J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in connection with a senior notes offering by Ineos