Offering of Senior Secured Notes and Senior Notes by Elli Finance and Elli Investments
June 28, 2012
Cravath represented Elli Finance (UK) Plc and Elli Investments Limited, special purpose vehicles of Terra Firma, a leading private equity firm, in connection with their £525 million 144A/Reg. S senior secured and senior notes offering. The proceeds of the offering will be used to finance Terra Firma’s acquisition of FSHC (Jersey) Holdings Limited, a holding company of Four Seasons Health Care, the United Kingdom’s largest independent elderly and specialist care provider. The transaction closed on June 28, 2012.
The Cravath team included partners Philip J. Boeckman and Alyssa K. Caples and associates Alexander Muller, Coralie Chaufour, Nicholas A. Dorsey and Michela D’Avino on corporate matters and partner Michael L. Schler on tax matters.
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