| Name : |
Mr. Malcolm Hitching |
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| Firm Name : |
Herbert Smith LLP |
| Designation : |
Finance Director |
| Email : |
Malcolm.Hitching [at] herbertsmith.com |
| Location : |
London |
| Career : |
Malcolm is head of the firm's finance division, and is based in London. He specialises in corporate financings and acquisition & event-driven finance and has considerable experience of acting for lenders, borrowers and financial advisers in relation to auctions, LBOs, public to private takeovers, infrastructure funding, Islamic financings and bid financings. He acts for a significant number of corporate borrowers in relation to their debt requirements, and is listed as a leading individual in Chambers’ guide to the legal profession and the Legal 500.
Credentials
* Yell Group in relation to its innovative $7.4bn debt restructuring
* Northern Foods plc in relation to various funding requirements
* Logica plc in respect of its acquisition and liquidity financings
* Lonmin plc in relation to various acquisitions, capex and liquidity financings
* Virgin Group on the debt aspects of a series of acquisitions, and a refinancing of Virgin Money
* HVB-Unicredit, The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Barclays Capital, Société Générale and others in respect of the proposed c.€2 billion merger of Taylor Nelson Sofres Plc and GfK Group
* The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and others in relation to three separate shari’ah compliant acquisition financings: the LBOs of Downhole Products Limited, Motherwell Bridge Group and BWA Group
* Fortune Brands on the debt aspects of its participation in the £7.4 billion takeover by Pernod Ricard of Allied Domecq
* The Junior Lenders in relation to a c.£3 billion bid for Kelda plc
* The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in relation to the LBOs of Liberty Ermitage, Celerant Consulting, The Aerial Facilities Group, Avitec and The Mill Group
* ING Bank and Barclays Capital in relation to the LBO of Phones 4U |
| Phone No. : |
044 20 7466 268 |
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