His recent work includes advising:

• UDC Finance on its acquisition of Bank of Queensland's New Zealand portfolio assets including commercial loans and finance and operating leases valued at c. NZ$230m;

• the underwriting banks on a c.€1.3bn secured term and revolving credit loan financing for Playtech Plc (a leading developer of gambling software) in connection with its public takeover of Snaitech S.p.A;

• Pacific Equity Partners on the financing for its acquisition of Academic Colleges Group;

• a club of unitranche lenders on their c.£260m secured financing of the Non-Standard Finance Plc group (a provider of unsecured subprime consumer credit in the UK) in connection with its acquisition of the George Banco group;

• funds managed by Alcentra Limited in connection with its unitranche financing of Oakley Capital's buy-out of Schülerhilfe (a German-based tutoring business);

• Takeda Pharmaceutical Company on the $31bn financing for its £46bn recommended offer for Shire plc, the largest ever acquisition financing for a Japanese borrower;

• the mandated lead arranger on its a c.US$1.9bn financing for BAE Systems Plc (a global defence, aerospace and security company listed on the LSE) in connection with its acquisition of the military global positioning business of Collins Aerospace;

• a syndicate of lenders on the £200m acquisition facilities to Trinity Mirror plc (a UK news publisher) for its acquisition of Express Newspapers from Northern & Shell;

• a global fund on a highly bespoke c.US$4bn basket margin loan financing secured over various listed securities;

• the underwriting banks on both a c.US$230m pre-IPO holdco bridge financing and a c.£110m post-IPO margin loan for a joint venture entity owned by 2 private equity firms;

• Just Eat Plc on its c.£9bn recommended all-share combination with Takeaway.com and Just Eat Plc's related c.535m revolving credit facility;