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.
Profile
Experience
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
Qualifications
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
News & Insights
June 5, 2024
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London team represents issuer in the transaction.
February 12, 2024
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Latham & Watkins Advises CVC Capital Partners on the Acquisition of Jagex
Cross-practice team represents CVC on the acquisition by it and Haveli Investments of leading video games developer and publisher.
December 5, 2023
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June 30, 2022
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March 11, 2022
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