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.

Mr Lam’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

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • BCL, University of Oxford
  • LLB (Hons), The University of Sydney (Sydney Law School)
  • BCom, The University of Sydney

Practices