Our experience includes advising:

Ardagh Glass Finance plc on of its offering of €300m First Priority Senior Secured Loan Notes due 2016 and its offering  8.75% of €180m Senior Notes due 2020.  Ardagh Glass plc is a major European glass container manufacturer that supplies companies such as Heineken and Coca Cola

Duke Street on the restructuring of the Payzone Group, Europe’s largest consumer payments acceptance network, in conjunction with the senior debt funders to the Payzone Group resulting in Duke Street acquiring a controlling interest in the Payzone Group, a substantial senior debt write down and the syndicate lenders becoming shareholders in the restructured group

INEOS Group Limited in relation to the reorganisation of its financing arrangements including a secured bond issue

Smurfit Kappa Acquisitions plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Smurfit Kappa Group, on its issuance of €1bn Senior Secured Notes in two series - €500m 7.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 and €500m 7.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2019.  The Notes are listed and traded on the Global Exchange Market of the Irish Stock Exchange

SCOR on its latest catastrophe bond, Atlas Capital VI Limited, which provides €75m of coverage to the SCOR Group in respect of certain European windstorm and Japanese earthquake risks for a risk period ending 31 March 2013

DCC plc as Irish counsel for DCC plc, DCC Treasury 2010 Limited as issuer, and associated group companies in a US dollar and euro denominated privately held debt note programme, placed with US and UK financial institutions

Smurfit Kappa on a €100m senior debt buyback by reverse Dutch auction

NTMA and NAMA in respect of structuring NAMA’s special purpose vehicle which will be responsible for the purchase, management and disposal of loan assets identified and valued by NAMA and the financing of such purchases through the issuance of debt securities which will consist of securities guaranteed by the Irish government

United Business Media Limited on its quoted Eurobond

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Elaine Hanly
Elaine Hanly receives praise for her pragmatic approach: "She manages to distil the advice from a technical legal point of view into a business suggestion."
Chambers Global, 2015 - Banking & Finance

Elaine Hanly’s team at William Fry provides ‘proactive service’.
Legal 500 EMEA, 2015

Elaine Hanly is a "a top lawyer, a great operator, with a fast turnaround. She works all day and night to get the job done".
Chambers & Partners, 2014 - Banking & Finance

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Chambers Europe, 2012 - Banking & Finance

Orla Brennan
Orla Brennan recently assisted Deutsche Bank Securities, acting as lead underwriter, with the provision of an 8.75% senior secured note for Trinseo. Clients find her "very attentive, proactive in finding solutions and happy to discuss strategies on how to solve issues."
Chambers Global, 2015 - Banking & Finance
 

Orla Brennan is 'recommended'.
Legal 500 EMEA, 2015
 

Orla Brennan is praised for her "responsive, proactive approach and commercial outlook." 
Chambers & Partners, 2014 - Banking & Finance

Orla Brennan is 'a lawyer with gravitas and good connections, experienced in cross-border mandates.'
Chambers Global, 2013 - Banking & Finance

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Chambers Europe, 2012 - Banking & Finance

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Legal 500 EMEA, 2012 - Banking & Finance

Rachel Stanton
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Chambers Global, 2015 - Banking & Finance

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Legal 500 EMEA, 2015 - Banking & Finance

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Chambers & Partners, 2014 - Banking & Finance

Rachel Stanton is described as ‘very commercial, efficient and knowledgeable’.
Legal 500 EMEA, 2013 - Banking & Finance

Rachel Stanton is highlighted for her ‘all-round excellence’.
Legal 500 EMEA, 2012 - Banking & Finance

Owen O'Connell
Owen is described as the "standout corporate adviser. He has excellent commercial judgement."
Chambers & Partners, 2014  

Owen O'Connell is lauded as a "smart, succinct practitioner with outstanding technical ability."
Chambers Global, 2013

Owen O’Connell is "a force to be reckoned with".
Legal 500 EMEA, 2012

David Maughan
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Chambers Europe, 2015 - Capital Markets