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Komal Raina is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and the Finance Department in London. Komal focuses on a wide range of financing transactions acting for sponsors and alternative asset managers including on leveraged and acquisition financings, distressed lending transactions and restructurings.

Komal is recognised by IFLR1000 UK as a Rising Star Partner for Banking and Finance and by The Legal 500 UK as a Key Lawyer for Acquisition Finance.

Experience

Prior to joining Willkie, Komal was a senior associate at Clifford Chance.

Komal has advised on the following significant matters:

  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its investment in Zero100, an intelligence company for global operations and supply chain leaders

  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its investment in Improve International Group, a leader in veterinary postgraduate training and education

  • Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited on the separation of its business and launch of a Managing General Underwriter

  • Blantyre Capital and its portfolio company McAvoy Group, a provider of high-quality modular buildings and social infrastructure, in the sale of McAvoy Group to Duke Street

  • Ad Hoc Group of Senior Secured Noteholders on the restructuring of AFE 

  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners and portfolio company Global Loan Agency Services (GLAS) on GLAS’s acquisition of the Watiga and Serica group

  • Hanover Investors on its acquisition of New Era Energy, a leading UK distributor of liquid fuels and related consumables

  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its sale of GL Education

  • Stanley Capital in its acquisition of French pharmaceutical group Laboratoire XO

  • SGT Capital on its acquisition of Utimaco.

  • Searchlight Capital Partners and Invesco Senior Secured Management in connection with the recapitalisation of the Mediapro Group, a leading multimedia communications group in Spain.
  • Searchlight Capital Partners on its acquisition of a majority stake in Celestyal Cruises
  • Bain Capital Credit on its acquisition of GAIL’s bakery
  • Stanley Capital in its acquisition of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance Services Solutions
  • Stanley Capital on its acquisition of global specialty pharmaceutical company, Noden Pharma DAC
  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its investment in Global Loan Agency Services (GLAS)
  • BigHand Inc., a portfolio company of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Iridium Technology, a legal business intelligence and analytics software provider
  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on a refinancing for Triskelion
  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its acquisition of Creditinfo Group in partnership with its founder and management team
  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its acquisition of BigHand Ltd., a leading provider of workflow software solutions
  • Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its acquisition of SiPM in partnership with management and its founding partners and subsequent refinancing
  • A US fund investor in respect of its investment in a Portuguese cruises business

Credentials

Education


University of New Delhi, LL.B., 2007 University of New Delhi, B.A. (honors), 2004

Bar Admissions


England & Wales, 2011 New Delhi, 2007