Joji Ozawa

Primary Focus & Experience

• Advised Zegona Communications in connection with the refinancing of Vodafone Spain.
• Advised the financing sources on EIG pearl’s $11B senior debt refinancing program.
• Advised in connection with a liability management transaction by Verizon.
• Advised J.P. Morgan SE as placement agent of Transcom Holding AB in connection with its private placement of €65 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured floating rate notes. 
• Advised Zegona Communications on its €4.2B financing for acquisition of Vodafone Spain.
• Advised Citycon Oyj in connection with a tender offer of its outstanding €458 million guaranteed notes.
• Advised Allwyn on its offering of €665M senior secured notes due 2030 and €700M senior secured notes due 2029.
• Advised BC Partners on the financing and other corporate matters in relation to their acquisition of AKMI IEK and Metropolitan College.
• Advised on $1.5B first-of-a-kind project sukuk issuance by TMS issuer S.à r.l and $3B issuance under newly established $11.5B GMTN programme by GreenSaif Pipelines BidCo S.à r.l.
• Advised the initial purchasers in connection with financing for Lone Star Funds’ acquisition of Manuchar.
• Advised Goldman Sachs as financial advisor to Reggeborgh Invest on its cash offer for Ellaktor.
• Advised the initial purchasers on $2.5 billion offering of project bonds by EIG Pearl Holdings S.à r.l.
• Advised Jaguar Land Rover on $1.1 billion senior notes offering.
• Advised Cedacri Mergeco on its debut issuance of €650 million senior secured floating rate notes to finance the acquisition of Cedacri
• Advised ION Analytics on its debut issuance of $350 million senior secured notes.
• Advised ION Corporates on its debut issuance of $350 million senior secured notes.
• Advised ION Markets on its debut issuance of $450 million senior secured notes.
• Advised the National Bank of Greece on the disposal of its 100% stake in a Cypriot Credit Acquiring company (CAC Coral) to Bain Capital Credit.
• Advised SAZKA Group, one of the largest pan-European lottery operators with a long history of operations in the Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus, Austria and Italy, in connection with:
  • its committed financing for the all cash, unconditional offer to acquire Greece’s OPAP, which was the largest all-cash tender offer in Greece in more than a decade;
  • its debut offering of €300 million 4.125% senior notes due 2024; and
  • its offering of €300 million 3.875% senior notes due 2027.
• Advised Ellaktor S.A., one of Greece’s largest and leading infrastructure companies, on its debut offering of €600 million 6.375% senior notes due 2024.
• Advised Salt, a Swiss telecommunications provider focusing on mobile telephony and fiber-optic land-line services, on its offering of €250 million 2.625% senior secured notes due 2024 and €575 million 3.125% senior secured notes due 2026.
• Advised the crossholder ad hoc group of noteholders in the restructuring of Nyrstar, a global multi-metals business with a market-leading position in zinc and lead, through an English Scheme of Arrangement. This involved representing in excess of 70% of holders of Nyrstar’s €340 million 8.5% 2019 notes, €500 million 6.875% 2024 notes and €115 million 5% convertible 2022 notes.
• Advised HIG Capital and Ecore, a leading French metal recycler, on its offering of €255 million senior secured floating rate notes.
• Advised the arrangers and the initial purchasers in the committed financing for Indika Energy, a leading Indonesian mining company, in connection with its acquisition of an additional stake in Kideco, the offering of $575 million 5.875% senior notes due 2024 and concurrent consent solicitation with respect to its existing two series of notes. This was the first bridge-to-bond deal in Southeast Asia. (High Yield Deal of the Year, IFLR Asia Awards)
• Advised Delhi International Airport on its offering of $350 million 5.375% senior secured notes due 2024.
• Advised the initial purchasers in the offering of $300 million 7% senior notes by HT Global IT Solutions Holdings Limited, an holding company of Hexaware, a leading Indian mid-size global provider of IT and business process management services.
• Advised JX Holdings, Inc., the largest Japanese oil refiner, on its SEC registration in connection with its business integration with TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K., creating JXTG Holdings. Previously advised Nippon Oil Corporation on its SEC registration in connection with the business integration with Nippon Mining Holdings, Inc., which created JX Holdings.