Claire has broad experience in international corporate and finance transactions with a particular focus on private equity. She advises on all aspects of corporate transactions including the financing of such deals and corporate recovery situations.

Claire has extensive experience advising on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, particularly leveraged acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic reorganizations and restructurings, and general corporate matters.

Her practice also focuses on debt and equity finance, and she has acted for both lenders and borrowers in relation to a variety of senior and mezzanine facilities.

Claire advises publicly and privately held companies and private equity funds operating across a range of industries. She has dealt with transactions in areas including telecommunications, technology, energy, retail, manufacturing, financial services and real estate in Europe and the United States and now largely concentrates her practice on emerging markets, particularly Central and Eastern Europe.

Representative Experience

• Advising a consortium of private equity funds led by Columbia Capital, M/C Venture Partners and Innova Capital in the €440 million acquisition of GTS Central Europe, an alternative telecom service operator in the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and the Slovak Republic including senior and mezzanine financing.
• Acting for a leading emerging markets private equity fund on the mezzanine financing of a Turkey-based provider of security services.
• Advising a US-based venture capital firm on multiple debt and equity investments in emerging technology businesses in various jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, United States, Japan and Israel.
• Counseling a management buyout team on the acquisition of a UK-based courier business from a company in administrative receivership and advising on numerous subsequent bolt-on acquisitions and a group reorganization and refinancing.
• Advising a Nasdaq-listed US-based company on the disposal of its UK-based subsidiary operating ATMs in Europe, the subsequent acquisition of a UK-based company in the business of electronic top-ups for prepaid mobile phones and the expansion of the group by way of acquisitions of companies and businesses across Europe and Asia.
• Counseling a consortium member on a joint venture to establish and operate the first mobile telephone network in the southern region of post-war Iraq.
• Representing a consortium of private equity investors led by Cable Partners Europe in its €2 billion acquisition of Telenet, the largest broadband cable operator in Belgium.
• Advising an investor in the rescue and debt restructuring of a UK-based motorsports company.