Christopher Clerihew
Associate, Finance
Christopher Clerihew is a senior associate in the Corporate & Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Frankfurt.
He has extensive experience in advising private equity sponsors, corporates, direct lenders, banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of domestic and cross-border leveraged buy-out financing, general corporate lending as well as real estate finance.
Experience
Leveraged Finance
- CVC on its financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in The Quality Group
- CVC on the acquisition of Bosch’s packaging technology business unit, one of the leading suppliers of process and packaging technology
- LGT Private Debt as lender on the additional financing of Skaylink (Portfolio Company of Waterland Private Equity)
- Arcmont on the acquisition financing of Engelmann Sensor GmbH, a leading European manufacturer of smart heat meters for the sub-metering industry, by DPE Deutsche Private Equity GmbH
- Arcmont on the recapitalization of STS Group and the acquisition financing of three add-ons in France
- BBS Automation in its acquisitions of China-based ReaLead, Italy-based Team S.r.l and Poland-based ANT Sp.z o.o.
- EQT Mid Market fund in its agreement to sell Avenso GmbH to LUMAS Art Editions GmbH and Avenso in its sale of WhiteWall to CEWE Stiftung Co. KGaA
- Permira Credit Solutions in the financing for Vitruvian Partners’ acquisition of Berlin-based healthcare staffing company doctari
- 3i Group plc in its agreement to invest up to €247 million in Formel D GmbH
- Ardian in its acquisition of SLV from Cinven
- Schenck Process on €445 million refinancing of existing senior and mezzanine acquisition facilities
- Questel and its financial sponsors Eurazeo, IK Investment Partners and Raise Investments on the financing of the acquisition of NovumlP from Paragon Partners
- HIG Whitehorse on the acquisition financing of Solvay´s Barium, Strontium & Sodium Percarbonate business by Latour Capital
- Capital Four in a financing in support of IK Investment Partners’ acquisition of Alba Baving Group, a provider of infrastructure cleaning
and maintenance services for municipalities and business-to-business customers in Germany - LGT Private Debt on the acquisition financing of Beck et al., binary and direct Gruppe by Waterland Private Equity
- Telemos Capital on the acquisition financing of MedEuropa, a European radiology group
- IK Investment Partners on the acquisition financing of L A P GmbH Laser Applikationen
- Barings as senior lender on the acquisition financing of Sanoptis, a European ophthalmology services group, by Telemos Capital
- Joh. Berenberg Gossler & Co. KG as super senior lender on the recapitalization of Intelligent Repair Solutions, a portfolio company of Ufenau
- CVC on the acquisition financing of Bosch’s packaging technology business unit, one of the leading suppliers of process and packaging technology
- HBC on its agreement with SIGNA Retail Holdings to combine HBC Europe with Germany’s Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH, creating Germany’s leading retailer with annual revenue in excess of €5 billion, and the sale to SIGNA of 50% of HBC’s German real estate assets to form a 50-50 real estate joint venture with SIGNA valued at €3.23 billion
- 3i-backed ATESTEO on €90 million refinancing/recapitalization
- TA Associates on its acquisition financing of think project!
- Barings as lender on the acquisition and add-on financing of Analytichem group, a family of companies providing high-quality analytical chemistry and reference materials to laboratories around the world, by Battery Ventures.
- Barings as senior lender on the acquisition financing of ifp Institut für Produktqualität GmbH (ifp), a provider of analytical testing and analysis services of food, feed, water and pharmaceutical, by Battery Ventures.
Credentials
Education
Higher Regional Court of Karlsruhe, Second State Exam, 2015 Universität Heidelberg, First State Exam, 2012