Overview
Giulia Venanzoni is counsel in the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group and focuses her practice on corporate and financial services advising private equity funds, corporate borrowers and issuers and various financial institutions on a number of cross-border and domestic debt financing transactions. She has a wealth of knowledge of leveraged buyouts, direct lending, domestic and syndicated senior, second lien and mezzanine financings and restructurings. She previously gained experience in real estate finance, debt securities, securitization and general banking.
Results
- Advised a US direct lending fund on an annual recurring revenue-based debt financing provided to a European private equity sponsor for the acquisition of a global cybersecurity business
- Representing the issuers in connection with the Greensill securitization programme
- Advised Five Arrows Growth Capital, a management company affiliated with Rothschild & Co Merchant Banking, in a new round of financing for Padoa, a pioneer in the digitalisation of occupational health
- Advised Pemberton in connection with the financing of a Palamon Capital Partners portfolio company
- Advised SilverTree and Perwyn Advisors UK Limited, as Sponsors, on the structured growth funding for their acquisition of the SALESmanago group
- Advised Golub Capital on the financing of the acquisition by Pamplona Equity Partners of the Pelsis Group
- Advised Intriva Capital on the financing of their acquisition of Sequence Care Group
- Advised Pemberton Asset Management on the acquisition financing of an insurance business
- Advised Golub Capital on the cross-border financing of the acquisition of the Sygnature Discovery group
- Advised Mercuria on the financing of Batavia Oil’s acquisition of Perenco Rang Dong Ltd from Perenco Overseas Holdings Ltd
- Advising Guggenheim Partners on a confidential holdco PIK Financing
- Advised a consortium of lenders including Blue Owl, Golub Capital, Guggenheim Partners and Partners Group on the financing of the acquisition of Allocate Software
- Advising CVC Credit partners on a confidential holdco PIK financing
- Advising OpenGate Capital on the cross-border financing of their acquisition of MultiCam, Inc
- Advising Ares Management Limited on the GBP425 million refinancing of the Charles Taylor Group
- Advising bd-capital on its acquisition of Ascenti Health through an asset-based lending structure
- Advised OpenGate Capital on the cross-border financing of their acquisition of Kongsberg Precision Cutting Systems
- Advised SilverTree Equity Limited on the financing aspects of its acquisition of the Orbus group
- Advised Owl Rock Capital and Partners Group in connection with the financing of the acquisition of the oneSource and Verge Health businesses
- Advised CVC Credit Partners on the financing of the iCoach (Ecteon) group
- Advised Excellence Logging on certain financing matters
- Advised the ad hoc co-com of senior secured noteholders on the restructuring and recapitalization of the Lecta Group, including EUR 600 million senior secured notes and the refinancing of its EUR 65 million super senior revolving facility*
- Advised Freshstream and the Lunch Garden Group on the refinancing of the Lunch Garden Group*
- Advised creditors in relation to the refinancing of the ChartCo Group (an Equistone portfolio company) and bolt-on acquisition*
- Advised Guggenheim in connection with the acquisition by the existing Datix Group of iContracts*
- Advised IK Investment Partners and the Visolit Group in connection with the refinancing of the Visolit Group*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom, Corporate Finance Law, Ones to Watch, 2023 – 2025
- The Legal 500 UK, Recommended, 2023 – 2025
Credentials
Education
King’s College London, LL.M., International Financial Law, 2016
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Law, 2012
Admissions
England & Wales
Italy
Languages
English
Italian
French