Tania Bedi

Recent examples of Tania’s work include advising:

Sponsor-side

• Nordic Capital on the financing arrangements in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of Cary Group, an auto repair center operator.
• Ara Partners on the financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of VAC Germany Holding GmbH and VAC Beteiligungs-GmbH.
• Ares Management on its investment of up to US$600 million in SB Energy, the renewable energy project developer.
• TPG in the €1.2 billion secondary buyout acquisition of Ontex N.V., from Candover Partners Limited. The debt financing was supplied by two leading investment banks.
• TPG Capital in connection with its US$560 million acquisition of a 30% stake in Saxo Bank A/S, the Danish securities and forex brokerage, and asset management firm from Banco Espirito Santo SA and General Atlantic LLC.
• Nordic Capital in relation to the restructuring and advising on strategy in relation to certain existing debt facilities of its portfolio companies, Luvata Oy and the Eco Group.
• The mezzanine lenders in the €1.82 billion acquisition of BSN Medical, a leading German medical supplies manufacturer, by Swedish private equity house EQT.

Borrower-side

• Shift4 Payments on the financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of Credorax, an Israel-based software financial technology company.
• Liberty Global in connection with its €3.95 billion equivalent dual currency loan financing package in relation to its takeover offer to acquire Dutch-listed cable company Ziggo N.V., with approximate value of €10 billion.
• Liberty Global in connection with the financing for its approximate €3.16 billion acquisition of Germany’s third-largest cable TV operator, Kabel BW Erste Beteiligungs GmbH, from Swedish private equity group EQT Partners AB.
• United ACM Holdings, a subsidiary of Liberty Global, Inc., on its US$2.19 billion acquisition of Swiss cable company, Cablecom Holding AG.
• UPC Broadband Holding B.V. on the €3.3 billion refinancing of its existing debt. The institutional tranche of the debt, together with a previous tranche, represents one of the largest in total for a European non-investment grade company and one of the largest Euro tranches.
• UPC Distribution Holding B.V. in the refinancing of its bank debt (approximately €2.5 billion). This involved amendment and restatement of existing facilities, reviewing various security documents, and negotiations with lenders in relation to the same.
• Essent N.V. (largest energy company in the Netherlands) in relation to the provision of certain letter of credit facilities and revolving credit facilities (€1.5 billion).

*The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.