William R. Burke
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Overview
Experience
Representative Matters
Representative Securities Offerings
- Maxeda DIY Holding B.V., a portfolio company of Ardian and GoldenTree Asset Management, in connection with its offering of €420 million 57/8% senior secured notes due 2026
- Clear Channel International B.V. in connection with the offering of $375 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2025
- Algeco Global S.à r.l., a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in connection with the offering by Algeco Global Finance plc of €175 million 6½% Senior Secured Notes due 2023
- TDR Capital, as controlling stockholder of WillScot Corporation, on the $6.6 billion combination of WillScot and Mobile Mini, Inc.
- The initial purchasers in connection with Pinewood Studios’ offering of £550 million 3.25% Senior Secured Notes due 2025
- Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €750 million 1.500% Senior Notes due 2027
- TVL Finance plc, a member of the Travelodge Group, on its offering of £440,000,000 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2025
- EG Group, a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in connection with the offering by EG Global Finance plc of €300 million 3.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2024, $750 million 6.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 and €670 million 4.375% Senior Secured Notes due 2025
- Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €400 million 2.875% Senior Notes due 2026
- Algeco Global S.à r.l., a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in connection with the offering by Algeco Global Finance plc of €85 million 6 ½% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2023 and €40 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2023
- Lone Star on the financing aspects of its approximately €1 billion acquisition of Imerys Roofing, one of the leading roofing suppliers in the French construction market, from Imerys, a world leader in mineral-based specialties for industry
- EG Group, a portfolio company of TDR Capital, on its approximately $5 billion of financings for the acquisitions of:
- 762 forecourt convenience sites in the U.S. from The Kroger Group
- Esso Deutschland GmbH (1000 Esso Service Stations in Germany) from Exxon Mobil Corporation
- The Lone Star Funds, in connection with the offering by one of its affiliates of €515 million Senior Secured Notes due 2024 to finance the acquisition by Lone Star of the Stark Group
- Algeco Scotsman Global S.à r.l., a portfolio company of TDR Capital, in connection with the offering by Algeco Scotsman Global Finance plc of €600 million 61⁄2% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2023, $520 million 8% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2023 and €150 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2023 and Algeco Scotsman Global Finance 2 plc of $305 million 10% Senior Notes due 2023
- Alteri Investors on the acquisition of CBR Fashion Group from Swedish financial investor EQT
- The initial purchasers in connection with Pinewood Studios’ offering of £250 million 3 3/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2023
- Lion Capital LLP in connection with HEMA Bondco I B.V.’s offering of €600 million Senior Secured Floating Rates Notes due 2022 and HEMA Bondco II B.V.’s offering of €150 million 8.50% Senior Notes due 2023
- Maxeda DIY Holding B.V. in connection with its offering of €475 million 61/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2022. This transaction won the “Europe High-Yield Bond” award at the IFR Awards 2017
- Senvion S.A. in connection with its offering of €400 million 37/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2022
- BNP Paribas and HSBC Bank plc in connection with Merlin Entertainments plc's offering of €200 million 23⁄4% Senior Notes due 2022
- Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €500 million 2.375% Senior Notes due 2024
- Lone Star in the financing aspects of its acquisition of the Xella Group, a German-based market leader in building solutions, from PAI Partners and funds managed by Goldman Sachs’ investment arm
- Hanesbrands Finance Luxembourg S.C.A., a subsidiary of Hanebrands, Inc., in its offering of €500 million 3.5% Senior Notes due 2024
- Travelodge Holdings Limited and its affiliates in their offering of £290,000,000 8 1⁄2% Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes due 2023 and £100,000,000 Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2023
- I Squared Capital in connection with its acquisition of Viridian Group Holdings Limited
- Edcon Holdings Limited, a Bain Capital portfolio company, in the exchange offer of its €425.0 million 133⁄8% Senior Notes due 2019 and the restructuring of its capital structure
- Autodistribution, a portfolio company of TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P., in connection with the offering by Autodis S.A. of €60 million senior secured notes due 2019
- Klöckner Pentaplast of America, Inc., a portfolio company of Strategic Value Partners, Perella Weinberg and UBS, in connection with its offering of €300 million 71/8% Senior Notes due 2020 and the concurrent tender offers for the €255 million 11.625% Senior Secured Notes due 2017 issued by KP Germany Erste GmbH and the 10.250%/11.000% Senior PIK Notes due 2017 issued by Kleopatra Holdings 1
- HSBC, Barclays and The Royal Bank of Scotland in connection with Merlin Entertainments plc's offering of €500 million 2 3⁄4% Senior Notes due 2022
- Coveris Holdings S.A. in connection with its offering of $85 million 7 7⁄8% Senior Notes due 2019
- Albéa Beauty Holdings S.A. in connection with its offering of €45 million 8.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2019
- Viridian Group FundCo II Limited in connection with its offering of €600 million 7 1⁄2% Senior Secured Notes due 2020 and concurrent tender offer and redemption
- Smurfit Kappa Acquisitions in connection with its offering of €250 million 2.75% senior notes due 2025
- Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets in connection with MEIF Renewable Energy UK PLC's offering of £190 million 63/4% Senior Secured Notes due 2020
- Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., London Branch, J.P. Morgan Securities plc, Standard Chartered Bank and SBICAP (Singapore) Limited in connection with Samvardhana Motherson Automotive Systems Group B.V.'s offering of €500 million 41/8 senior secured notes due 2021
- Ideal Standard International S.A., a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in connection with the exchange offer for its outstanding €275,000,000 11¾% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 and the offering of €50,000,000 15.75% Priority PIK Senior Secured Notes due 2018
- R&R Ice Cream plc in connection with its offering of €150 million 4 3⁄4% Senior Secured Notes due 2020; AUD152 million 8 1⁄4% Senior Secured Notes due 2020
- Smurfit Kappa Group in connection with its offering of €500 million 3.250% Senior Notes due 2021
- Credit Suisse, Barclays and J.P. Morgan in connection with R&R Ice Cream plc's offering of £315 million 5½% senior secured notes due 2020 and the concurrent tender offer for €350 million of its 8⅜% senior secured notes due 2017
- Ideal Standard International S.A., a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in connection with the exchange offer for its outstanding €275,000,000 11¾% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 and offering of €50,000,000 15.75% Priority PIK Senior Secured Notes due 2018
- Monier Braas GmbH in connection with BMBG Bond Finance S.C.A.'s offering of €315 million Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2020
- GTCR and Mizzen Bondco Limited in the offering by Mizzen Bondco Limited of £200 million 7% Senior Notes due 2021
- A.T.U Auto-Teile-Unger in connection with A.T.U Cayman Holdco Limited's offering of €109 million 12.00% Senior Notes due and its restructuring of its outstanding €375 million 11.00% Senior Secured Notes due 2014, €75 million Floating Rate Senior Secured Notes due 2014 and €150 million Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2014
- Parts Holdings Cooperatief U.A. in connection with Autodis S.A.'s offering of €240 million 6.5% senior secured notes due 2019
- Adria Bidco B.V. (Serbia Broadband) in connection with their offering of €475 million Senior Secured Notes
- Albéa Beauty Partners S.A. in connection with their offering of $150 million Senior Secured PIK Toggle Notes
- Sun Capital in connection with Exopack Holdings S.A.'s offering of $325 million 7 7⁄8% Senior Notes
- Citigroup Global Markets and the other initial purchasers in connection with Aguila 3 SA's offering of $390 million 77/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2018 to finance the acquisition by Swissport of Servisair SAS
- Barclays Bank PLC and Credit Suisse in an offering of €253.0 million of senior PIK/Toggle notes by R&R PIK plc in connection with an acquisition of R&R Ice Cream plc by PAI Partners SAS
- Kleopatra Holdings 1 (a parent of the Klockner Pentaplast business) in an issuance of €225.0 million of senior PIK notes
- Smurfit Kappa Group in its offering of €400.0 million of senior secured notes
- Orion Engineered Carbons Finance & Co. S.C.A. in its offering of $425.0 million of senior PIK/Toggle notes
- Verisure Holding AB (Securitas) in its offering of €100.0 million of series A senior secured floating rate notes due 2018
- Albea Beauty Holdings in its offering of $650.0 million equivalent senior secured notes to finance its acquisition of the worldwide cosmetics business of Rexam plc
- Smurfit Kappa Group in its offerings of €440.0 million of equivalent senior secured notes and €250 million of senior secured floating rate notes
- EQT on its partial exit from leading Finnish private healthcare company Terveystalo Oy via IPO on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd
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Recognition
Chambers UK, “He comes highly recommended for his ability to handle complex bond issuances”, 2021
Chambers Global, The World's Leading Lawyers for Business, 2012–2020
The Legal 500 UK, Leading Individual in High Yield, 2021
IFLR1000 UK, Highly Regarded for Capital Markets: Debt, 2021
IFR Awards, “Europe High-Yield Bond” award for Pinewood's £550m six-year bond, 2019
IFR Awards, “Europe High-Yield Bond” award for Maxeda DIY Holding B.V.’s offering of €475 million 61/8% Senior Secured Notes, 2017
Transatlantic Legal Awards, “Transatlantic Debt Capital Markets Team of the Year,” 2017
Law360, "Capital Markets Group Of The Year," 2015
The Legal 500,"Firm Specialism Award for High Yield," 2014
IFLR Europe, "Team of the Year for High Yield," 2014
Served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1995–1999
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2003New York
- 2005Illinois
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2002
- University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignB.A., History1995