Xian Wei Yeo

Senior Counsel

About

Xian advises corporate borrowers and issuers, as well as sponsors, credit funds, banks, insurers and other financial institutions, on a wide range of cross-border and domestic financing transactions,.

Xian advises sponsors, borrowers, credit funds and bank lenders on investment grade and leveraged financings, and corporate borrowers on a variety of treasury finance transactions including US private placements, asset-based lending and hedging arrangements. She has broad experience advising purchasers, sellers and lenders on acquisition finance transactions across a range of jurisdictions and sectors. Her experience includes special situations, enforcement and work-out planning advice for lender clients. 

She also advises corporate and financial institutions on debt capital market issuances and liability management exercises, and has experience acting for financial institutions on highly structured transactions including risk transfer and regulatory capital arrangements. 

Experience

  • Advising Cera Care on a $150m debt and equity funding round led by BDT & MSD Partners and Schroders Capital to support future growth.
  • Advising FirstCash Holdings, Inc, a leading international operator of over 3,000 retail pawn stores in the United States and Latin America, on its proposed all-cash acquisition of H&T Group plc, the leading operator of pawn stores in the United Kingdom.
  • Advising Zurich Assurance Ltd on transitioning its existing longevity swap with the National Grid Electricity Group of the Electricity Supply Pension Scheme to Aviva, as part of arrangements for a £1.7bn pensioner buy-in by the Group.
  • Advising private equity firm Epiris on the acquisition of Amber Taverns by one of its advised funds, Epiris Fund III.
  • Advising Joshua Alliance and his bid vehicle Falcon 24 Topco Limited on the proposed take-private of N Brown Group plc.

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