Ben Burton is a partner in Dechert's global finance practice, based in London. His practice is primarily focused on representing sponsors and their portfolio companies on complex leveraged financings. His experience enhances the firm’s finance and private equity capabilities.
Ben has banking and debt finance experience including syndicated and credit fund lending, leveraged acquisitions, take-private transactions across Europe, liability management exercises, corporate lending and general banking. He has also been recognised as a “Key Lawyer” in Acquisition Finance and Bank Lending by the Legal 500 UK.
Working at the intersection of leveraged finance and private equity, his experience strengthens the firm's ability to support asset managers, sponsors, corporates, funds and financial institutions on a wide range of complex and multijurisdictional leveraged financing transactions.
Before joining Dechert, Ben was a partner in a leading global law firm.
- Consortium of CVC Private Equity Funds, Nordic Capital and ADIA on the £5.4 billion recommended cash acquisition of Hargreaves Lansdown
- Vista Equity Partners on the acquisition of Quantios, a leading provider of SaaS solutions to the global trust and corporate services industry
- Fortress on the private credit refinancing for Overseas Adventure Travel
- Park Square on the acquisition of the commercial rights to the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) and the FIA European Rally Championship
- GTCR on the acquisition of JMG Group
- Advent International and Zentiva Group on the amendment and extension of Zentiva Group's European TLB facility and the subsequent disdposal of Zentiva to GTCR
- Pinewood Studios’ refinancing of its capital structure
- CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of Maticmind S.p.A and related acquisition by Maticmind of a majority stake in a leading Italian cybersecurity and intelligence technologies business
- CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of RGI S.p.A., a leading European software solutions provider to the insurance industry
- · A top-tier consortium on its bid to establish a pan-European football super league and financing arrangements for the related media-rights sales
- KPS Capital Partners on the acquisition of Sport Group
- CPP Investments in connection with a change of the corporate structure of Axel Springer Group alongside joint venture partner, KKR
- Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC on its acquisition of European CDMO Assets
- Consolis Group on the restructuring and recapitalisation of its existing facilities, various liquidity initiatives and strategic financing arrangements
- Brookfield on the structuring and issuance of senior secured notes and preferred equity to support the refinancing of a German real estate owner/manager
- Greenbelt Capital Partners on the acquisition of Brush Group
- Ardonagh Group on the refinancing its existing financing arrangements with a new unitranche financing, senior secured notes and senior unsecured notes
- Lonestar on its public to private acquisition of McCarthy & Stone plc
- Lonestar on the Edilians Group's European TLB facility
- Lonestar on the financing arrangements for the ERIKS Group
- Blackstone's public to private acquisition of Italian infrastructure group Atlantia. The transaction was Europe's largest ever take-private transaction, with an enterprise value of c. €54 billion. This transaction was awarded Loan Deal of the Year at the 2023 IFLR Europe Awards
- Partners Group's acquisition of Forterro
- Partners Group's acquisition of Version 1
- Cinven's acquisition of Bayer Environmental Science
- TDR's refinancing of the existing facilities of Norwegian coastal ferry and cruise-line group, Hurtigruten
- Groupe Bruxelles Lambert's acquisition of Sanoptis
- Goldman Sachs Asset Management's acquisition of The Clear Group
- Loxam's senior secured notes offering and exchange offering
- A top-tier sponsor's bid for a regulated national gambling asset
- EQT's acquisition of Schülke, and the subsequent refinancing of the Schülke facilities
- Sazka Group's public to private acquisition of OPAP
- Hellman & Friedman on its public to private acquisition of Nets A/S
- Vantiv’s public to private acquisition of Worldpay
- Thoma Bravo's acquisition of Qlik Technologies Inc.
- A Champions' League winning football club's financing arrangements, secured by football league rights, broadcasting revenues and sponsorship revenues
- Fenway Sports Group Holdings, LLC and Liverpool FC regarding the operational financing arrangements for Liverpool FC
- New England Sports Ventures (Fenway Sports Group Holdings, LLC) on its acquisition of Liverpool FC
- Aston Martin's second lien notes offering, supporting the evolution of its Formula 1 team and strategic joint venture with Mercedes Benz
- FC Barcelona's financing in support of their stadium redevelopment
Includes matters handled at Dechert or prior to joining the firm.