Rachpal K. Thind

Recent representative matters include advising:

• Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. in the acquisition of The Travel Corporation.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. on financial sanctions and other regulatory matters in its acquisition of Chelsea Football Club and related affiliates in a consortium co-led with Todd Boehly, Chairman and CEO of Eldridge. The acquisition was named “Private Equity Deal of the Year” at The Deal Awards 2022.
• The lenders on Sotheby’'s art loans structured facility. The transaction was named “"Structured Finance and Securitization Deal of the Year”" at the IFLR Americas Awards 2021.
• Zenith (a portfolio company of Bridgepoint) on securitization risk retention requirements in relation to its vehicle lease Asset-Backed Commercial Paper and Asset-Backed Lending structures (ongoing).
• Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, on expanding the shareholder base of International Schools Partnership, a leading international group of K-12 schools.
• Great Hill Partners in connection with its investment in BigChange, the leading mobile workforce management technology company for the service and transport sectors.
• Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on its acquisition of a shareholding in Rothesay Life.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of CarTrawler.
• A European bank as its primary counsel on securitization risk retention requirements under the EU Securitization Regulation within the context of its U.S. transactions.
• The independent compliance monitor of HSBC Holdings plc, who was appointed by the U.S. Department of Justice, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in connection with a monitorship resulting from a US$1.9 billion resolution of money laundering and sanction violations.
• Investment managers and other financial institutions on the implementation of the EU Fourth Money Laundering Directive.
• A global custodian bank over a multi-year period on the group’s compliance program in relation to FATF Special Recommendation VII on wire transfers.
• A global payment institution on establishing a post-Brexit bank in Europe.
• The Bank of Cyprus in relation to the cross listing of its shares on the London Stock Exchange and the Cyprus Stock Exchange. The listing involved a complex corporate restructuring involving a Cypriot scheme of arrangement and the insertion of a new Irish holding company, cross-border settlement and significant regulatory interaction.
• The Bank of Cyprus on regulatory matters arising out of the bail-in of its bondholders and depositors and the transfer to it of certain of the operations of Cyprus Popular Bank (Laiki).
• A consortium of U.S. government-sponsored banks with bonds listed in Europe on the EU Market Abuse Regulation.

• Member of SidleyWomen
• A member of the global advisory board of the Women in Law Empowerment Forum