Simba Gonondo

Simba’s experience includes advising:

• The arrangers in connection with Vallourec S.A.’s offering of Senior Notes due 2032 in an aggregate principal amount of US$820 million and the entry into a new 5-year €550 million multi-currency revolving credit facility
• The lenders on the successful refinancing of the existing term loan indebtedness and an additional capital raise to simultaneously fund an acquisition for Miss Group AB, a portfolio company of Perwyn Advisors UK Ltd
• The arrangers in the issuance of €525 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2029 and the entry into an €85 million revolving credit facility by La Doria S.p.A., a leading European supplier of Italian shelf-stable private label products, including, amongst others, tomatoes, ready-to-use sauces, and canned pulses. The offering represents the debut issuance of La Doria following the take-private by Investindustrial in 2022
• The banks led by Deutsche Bank and composed of IMI — Intesa Sanpaolo, BNP PARIBAS, Crédit Agricole CIB, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs International, UBS Investment Bank, and UniCredit, in the issuance of €125 million senior secured floating rate notes due 2029 and the fungible upsize of the existing revolving credit facility by La Doria S.p.A., a leading European supplier of Italian shelf-stable private label products, including, amongst others, tomatoes, ready-to-use sauces, and canned pulses. The offering represents the second issuance of La Doria in 2024, following the take-private by Investindustrial in 2022
• The lenders in connection with Alpega’s portable debt refinancing
• Imagination Technologies on a US$100 million convertible term loan to support the company's continued growth and development of technologies and intellectual property solutions
• The arrangers on the €4.9 billion bridge facility supporting ams AG’s competitive bid for OSRAM*
• The arrangers and lenders in relation to Anheuser-Busch InBev inaugural US$10.1 billion sustainability linked financing*
• The arrangers on the €1.8 billion financing package made available to support the acquisition of Crown Holding Inc.’s EMEA metal and tinplate steel packaging business by KPS Capital Partners*
• The arrangers in connection with a €400m dividend recapitalization by Eviosys*
• The arrangers on the refinancing of Viridor (a KKR portfolio company)*
• The arrangers on the US$5.9 billion multicurrency Term Loan B refinancing for Altice France S.A*
• The arrangers on the refinancing of CABB International (a German chemicals business owned by Permira)*
• The underwriters and the private capital providers on the financing for Cinven’s takeover offer to acquire German-listed company Synlab*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham