Matt Bernardo
Partner
Cayman Islands
Our Ireland and Cayman-based teams won four awards across the categories of Mergers & Acquisitions, Debt Capital Markets and Financial Services for the following deals:
- Aviation Finance, Debt Issuance: Airborne Capital Investment Grade Corporate Note financing
- CLO: Barings Euro Middle Market CLO 2024-1 DAC and Debut CLO
- Inward FDI Investment: Apollo's investment in Intel's Irish Fab 34
- Issuance: Victory Street CLO I DAC
Our award-winning teams included:
- Matt Bernardo, Partner (Investment Funds), Cayman Islands
- Eimear Burbridge, Of Counsel (Tax), Ireland
- Miriam El Ofir, Associate (Investment Funds), Cayman Island
- Clare Mannion, Senior Associate (Finance & Capital Markets), Ireland
- Killian McSharry, Partner (Asset Finance), Ireland
- Padhraic Mulpeter, Consultant (Tax), Ireland
- Paddy Rath, Partner (Finance & Capital Markets), Ireland
- Noeleen Ruddy, Partner and Co-head of Finance & Capital Markets, Ireland
- Therese Redmond, Head of Listings, Ireland
- Jonathan Sheehan, Tax Partner & Managing Partner, Ireland
- Joanna Taylor, Director of Fiduciary Services, WPS Ireland
- Daniel Walford, Senior Counsel (Investment Funds), Cayman Islands
Quoted in Finance Dublin on the Airborne Capital deal, Killian McSharry commented:
“The debut investment-grade corporate note offering by Airborne Capital Limited highlights the continued strength of demand for investment within the aviation financing and leasing sector amongst sophisticated institutional investors and, in particular, the confidence that such investors have in Airborne Capital to continue expanding its asset management business."
In relation to the Barings Euro Middle Market CLO, Paddy Rath said:
“We are thrilled to have assisted Barings with this groundbreaking CLO transaction. The European CLO Market has been waiting for a breakthrough on middle market CLOs for some time and we were delighted to see Barings, a deeply experienced and market leading CLO manager, lead the way."
Matt Bernardo, who led on Apollo's investment into Intel's Irish Fab 34, commented:
“It was a pleasure to support our longstanding client Intel on a transaction of this scale and significance. As Cayman Islands counsel, we’re proud to have played a role in delivering a complex and highly structured deal as part of Intel's transformation strategy. Congratulations again to everyone involved.”
On the Victory Street CLO deal, Noeleen Ruddy said:
"We were delighted to assist CIC Private Debt on the successful placement of its inaugural €305 million CLO (Collateralised Loan Obligation), Victory Street CLO I. In this milestone transaction, CIC Private Debt, the private debt specialist firm of La Française, capitalized on its solid track record and recognized expertise in the European Leveraged Loans and CLO markets."
Congratulations to our award-winning clients, to our colleagues who advised on these deals and to our fellow winners.
Finance Dublin have published a report detailing the winning deals with accompanying commentary by the lawyers who worked on them here.
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