Corporate Lending

Our Corporate Lending Group has extensive experience advising on debt finance for both domestic and international corporate borrowers. Our expertise in corporate lending and broad client base enables us to have a unique commercial understanding of the market and to bring crucial industry knowledge, technical expertise and a strong commercial outlook to every transaction.

Our clients include commercial banks and other financial institutions, institutional investors, direct lenders and other credit providers, both domestic and international, as well as a wide range of borrowers, including investment grade and other corporate and private banking clients. Our extensive experience and market knowledge places us at the forefront of an evolving debt finance market in structuring and executing the most innovative transactions.

Our Debt Finance Group is an acknowledged market leader in Ireland in both domestic and international finance with expertise spanning the spectrum of debt products including:

hybrid finance options such as lender/bond structures
syndicated, club and bilateral term and revolving credit facilities
private placements
asset-based lending
receivables financing
structured finance and warehouse lending

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Key highlights include advising:

Bausch & Lomb in connection with its secured senior debt and notes transactions

Flutter Entertainment PLC in relation to the refinancing of its syndicated credit facilities

Ryanair plc on its €750 million unsecured revolving credit facility with a syndicate of thirteen banks

Deutsche Lufthansa on its €3 billion state-guaranteed loan from state bank KFW and a syndicate of other private banks

Musgrave Group PLC on its revolving credit facility with a syndicate of five international and domestic lenders and on its private placement

Greencore Group plc on its syndicate revolving credit facilities, term debt, private placements and receivables financings

LCM Partners Limited and Solo Asset I (Ireland) DAC in the establishment and financing of a lending, origination and administration platform with InvoiceFair Limited trading as FinanceFair

Multiple domestic and international banks on their bilateral facilities to Lidl Ireland and Lidl Northern Ireland

Activate Capital Limited on the provision of €500 million senior and mezzanine facilities to it by The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund and KKR Credit to fund Irish residential projects

Bank of Ireland Corporate Banking and Agency Group in respect of various financings across all industry sectors including lending to plc and multinational companies, the food, agricultural and beverages sector, the hotel sector and its semi-state and government body sector

Citi as sole arranger, underwriter and bookrunner on facilities for the merger of Smurfit Kappa Group with WestRock Company

The Finance Parties in relation to Adient PLC’s term loan, asset-based loan and notes offering financings

Various corporate borrowers in negotiating restructured facilities with their banks and in refinancing their facilities out of NAMA

“High calibre team which is lead by the Head of Finance, who is very visible on deals."

The Legal 500, 2023

“Whilst technically great and produce work product in a proficient manner, more importantly they are enjoyable to work with and highly reliable and always get the job done no matter the challenge.”

The Legal 500, 2024

“Arthur Cox is very commercially minded."

Chambers Europe, 2024

"There are always lawyers in the team with the relevant experience to advise as necessary, and the service levels and responsiveness are excellent."

Chambers Global, 2024