Adair Cook Associate, Corporate

Adair Maxted

Associate

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Adair Cook Associate, Corporate

Adair Maxted

Associate

adair.maxted@akingump.com

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Biography
  • Advises on a broad range of financing transactions.
  • Has particular focus on private credit, direct lending transactions and other debt finance transactions.

Adair is an associate in the corporate finance group. She has experience advising private credit investors and lenders on a range of matters including direct lending, private placements, financial restructurings, acquisition finance and leveraged finance transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Adair trained in the London office of a leading United States (US) law firm, which included working in their office in Houston.

Representative Work
  • Advised a global investment fund in connection with the acquisition of a 40% stake in Finland’s largest electricity distribution company.
  • Advised institutional investors in connection with direct lending, mezzanine and equity investments across the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe.
  • Advised a leading international investment firm in relation to its equity investment in a manufacturing company that offers a global sustainable solution to help prevent plastic pollution.
  • Advised Helios Investment Partners on the completion of the sale of Solevo, a leading African distributor of specialty chemicals.
  • Advised Elevation Advisors in relation to the acquisition financing of a health care real estate portfolio.
  • Advised Kennedy Lewis in connection with a $450 million senior secured term loan credit facilities to Eastman Kodak Company.
  • Advised an institutional investor on the provision of debt and equity financing to a transportation management company.
  • Advised Vitol, a global commodity trading house, in relation to the $2.3 billion takeover of Vivo Energy.
  • Advised the underwriters and initial purchasers in connection with Tullow Oil plc’s $2.38 billion refinancing, consisting of an offering of $1.8 billion aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2026 and a super senior secured revolving credit facility comprised of a $500 million revolving credit facility and a $100 million letter of credit facility.
  • Advised the institutional investors in privately placed debt and equity and other secured and unsecured financing transactions.
  • Advised the noteholders in a number of cross-border private placement transactions involving issuers located in North America, Latin America, UK, Europe and Australia.
  • Advised a group of investors in the refinancing of existing indebtedness of the finance subsidiary of a multinational technology company, best known for its vacuum cleaners.
  • Advised the underwriters in connection with a $200 million revolving credit facility for an international energy company in a committed financing package for the acquisition of two target companies.
  • Advised the largest homebuilder in Spain, on its offering of €300 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes due 2026 and €30 million super senior revolving credit facility. The offering represented the first green bond by a residential real estate developer in the Euro market.
  • Advised an ad hoc committee of holders on the $1.125 billion financial restructuring of Nostrum Oil & Gas plc, an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Kazakhstan.
  • Advised the ad hoc group of lenders on the refinancing of Hurtigruten AS, a Norwegian cruise line and coastal ferry business.

List may include matters worked on prior to joining Akin.

Education
  • L.P.C., University of Law, London, 2019

  • GDL, University of Law, London, 2018

  • M.A., University of St. Andrews, 2017

Bar Admissions
  • Solicitor, England and Wales

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