Clifford Chance

Clifford Chance advises KBC Bank on pan-jurisdictional EUR 90 million revolving credit facility for Fieldlink

International law firm Clifford Chance has advised KBC Bank in its role as underwriter and bookrunning mandated lead arranger (BMLA) of the lenders of a EUR 90 million senior revolving credit facility (RCF) for Fieldlink NV that was completed on 15 November 2013 and was in conjunction with a EUR 285 million high-yield bond. The pan-jurisdictional transaction involved seven jurisdictions (Netherlands, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, United Arab Emirates/Dubai), all in which Clifford Chance offices operated with a cross-practice team. ABN AMRO Bank acted as the agent and ING Bank acted as the security agent for the credit facility.

Clifford Chance's cross-border Finance team that advised KBC Bank was lead by Mark Huddlestone (partner) and consisted of Jackie Jones (counsel), Sylvia van der Heyden (counsel), Tineke Kothe (counsel), Mirjam van der Kaay (associate), Victor ten Have (associate), Alice Vinten (associate) and Arwin Lok (candidate civil law notary) from Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam team was assisted by Daniel Zerbib (partner), Yann Beckers (counsel) and Audrey Manera (associate) from Paris, Bert de Maeyer (partner) and Ricky Sharma (associate) from Brussels, Isabel van Bremen (associate) from Düsseldorf, Sebastian Marker (partner), Alexandra Hagelüken (partner), Cristina Weidner (associate), Katja Lehr (associate) and Alexander Hansen Díaz (paralegal) from Frankfurt, Carlos Hernández Canut (partner), Javier García de Enterría (partner), Rodrigo Uría (associate), Eugenio Fernández Rico (associate) and Felipe Pont (associate) from Madrid, Ferdinando Poscio (partner), Massimiliano Bianchi (counsel) and Fabrizio Nebuloni (associate) from Milan and Franco Grilli (partner) from Dubai.