Squire Patton Boggs

About Elysia

Elysia Watts advises on a range of domestic and cross-border debt finance transactions, including acquisition and leverage finance, general corporate lending and real estate finance.

Experience

Acquisition/Leveraged Finance

  • Advising ECI Partners in relation to a £77 million club loan consisting of term and revolving facilities to support its majority buyout of Croud.

  • Advising ECI Partners in connection with its €180 million unitranche facilities for the acquisition of the Commify Group, which involved seven jurisdictions.

  • Advising Prescient Healthcare Group (a Bridgepoint portfolio company) in connection with the refinance of its facilities with Pemberton Asset Management and HSBC.

Corporate Lending

  • Advising HSBC UK Bank plc in connection with its cross-border facilities to the Pebble Group plc.

  • Advising EU Automation in connection with its cross-border facilities with HSBC UK Bank plc.

Real Estate

  • Advising a well-established Yorkshire-based property investment and development group on a multimillion-pound development and investment loan facility.

  • Advising National Westminster Bank Plc in connection with its facilities to a hotelier group with multiple properties across the UK.

Credentials

Education
  • BBP University, Cambridge, L.P.C., 2020
  • BBP University, Cambridge, LL.M., 2020
  • University of East Anglia, G.D.L., 2017
  • Keele University, B.A., (Hons), Geography, 2015
Admissions
  • England and Wales, 2022

Expertise

Services
  • Financial Services

About our firm

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