Michael Mountain

Selected experience

• Blackrock on the debt and equity financing arrangements with Razor Group and its subsidiaries.
• Anchorage Capital Group and M&G Investments on their £500 million disposal of PHS Group to Bidvest. (previous firm experience)
• Anchorage Capital Group, GIC Private Limited. and Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP, on the sale of their interests in Eir, the principal provider of fixed-line and mobile telecoms services in Ireland, to Toohil Telecom Holdings Limited, a company controlled by NJJ. (previous firm experience)
• Blackstone Credit on a three-tier financing package to support Advent International’s approximately £4 billion acquisition of leading global technology and services innovator Cobham plc. (previous firm experience)
• The ad hoc committee of bondholders of the US$650 million 2022 Notes in the financial restructuring of the diamond mining group, Petra Diamonds, with mines in South Africa and Tanzania. (previous firm experience)
• Balderton Capital and the other shareholders in Livebookings Holdings Limited on the sale of the “Bookatable” business to Michelin. (previous firm experience)
• The owners of Miniclip, the mobile and online game publisher, on the sale of a majority stake to Tencent Holdings and the related shareholders’ agreement. (previous firm experience)
• Basalt Infrastructure Partners LP on its acquisition of 100 per cent of the ownership interest in COMAX France S.A.S from Maxim Power Corp. (previous firm experience)
• Basalt Infrastructure Partners LP on its acquisition of bn:t Blatzheim Networks Telecom GmbH and SOCO Network Solution, full-service telecommunications providers based in Germany. (previous firm experience)
• Anchorage Capital Group on its disposal of LS Retail. (previous firm experience)