Shawn Anderson

Partner Capital Markets
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7469 2238

Shawn Anderson

Practices

Overview

Shawn Anderson is a capital markets partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Shawn has significant experience representing private equity sponsors, issuers and investment banks in complex and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including debt and equity offerings, acquisition financings and liability management exercises, with a particular emphasis on issuances of high-yield debt securities. He also advises companies, including foreign private issuers, on securities law compliance and corporate governance issues.

At Kirkland & Ellis, Shawn has represented:

  • United Group B.V., which is majority-owned by BC Partners, in connection with an offering of €550 million of high yield bonds
  • BC Partners on its acquisition from KKR of a majority stake in United Group, a leading media and communication services provider across Southeast Europe

Prior to joining Kirkland, Shawn was involved in the following representations:

  • Citigroup and J.P. Morgan in connection with a €1.1 billion bond offering to finance Bain Capital and Cinven’s public-to-private acquisition of shares in STADA Arzneimittel, a German pharmaceutical company

  • Goldman Sachs, HSBC and J.P. Morgan in connection with a €1.1 billion bond offering to finance Advent International, Bain Capital and Clessidra’s acquisition of Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane (ICBPI), an Italian payments banking group; awarded “Europe High-Yield Bond of the Year” by International Financing Review

  • J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs in connection with a $16.6 billion multi-tranche bond offering to finance Altice and Numericable’s acquisition of SFR, a French mobile provider; awarded “Global Finance Deal of the Year: Acquisition Finance” at AMLaw Global Legal Awards

  • EQT and Auris Luxembourg in connection with financings related to their acquisition of Siemens Audiology Solutions (now Sivantos)

  • Young’s Seafood (owned by Lion Capital, Bain Capital and HPS Investment Partners) in connection with various financing matters

  • Tullow Oil in connection with multiple offerings of senior notes

  • Goldman Sachs in connection with a senior subordinated notes offering by an SPV, the proceeds of which were used by the SPV to acquire existing debt of Perstorp

  • J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in connection with a senior notes offering by Ineos

  • A leading sponsor in connection with financing matters for a bid for an Italian gaming group

  • A leading sponsor in connection with financing matters for a bid for a Spanish funds platform

  • A leading sponsor in connection with the private placement of notes by a portfolio medical company

Judicial ExternHonorable Robert W. GettlemanUnited States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois2008

Latham and Watkins LLP, London, UK

  • Associate, 2010–2018

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2010Illinois

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2010

    Executive Colloquy Editor, Northwestern University Law Review

  • Syracuse UniversityB.A., Newspaper Journalism & Political Sciencemagna cum laude2003

    Renée Crown University Honors Program