Peetra Anderson-Figueroa is special counsel in the London office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s European Leveraged Finance Group.
London
Primary Focus & Experience
Peetra has experience advising both lenders and borrowers on a range of complex domestic and cross-border banking and finance transactions, including leveraged acquisitions, re-financings and restructurings and general corporate and working capital facilities across a number of industry sections and jurisdictions, including:
- Representing the financing sources in connection with the financing of Apollo’s voluntary tender offer for 100% of the shares of Spain-based industrial testing company Applus Services SA.
- Representing the initial purchasers and lenders in connection with Borr Drilling's $1.54B debut high yield bond offering and super senior revolving credit facility
- Representing General Atlantic on the intended combination of Qontigo and ISS (both majority-owned by Deutsche Börse), with General Atlantic becoming the sole minority shareholder of the combined Qontigo entity.
- Representing Frigoglass S.A.I.C. on the successful completion of the consensual recapitalization and restructuring of the group of companies formerly controlled by it.
- Representing Globalworth Real Estate Investments Limited and its subsidiary Globalworth Holdings Cyprus Limited on their three-year term revolving credit facility with Erste Group.
- Representing the financing sources on Goldman Sachs Asset Management Division’s acquisition of a controlling stake in leading European specialty pharmaceuticals company Norgine BV.
- Representing the arrangers on Delivery Hero’s syndication of a term loan and revolving credit financing transaction comprising of a $825M term facility, a €300M term facility and a €375M revolving credit facility.
- Representing the mandated lead arrangers in relation to the senior secured term loan B and senior secured revolving credit facility financing for Carlyle’s acquisition of Altadia Group, the largest global manufacturer of intermediate products for ceramic tile production, from LoneStar.
- Representing the initial purchasers in connection with Zenith Finco Plc’s offering of £475M 6.500% Green Senior Secured Notes due 2027 pursuant to its newly established green bond framework and related revolving credit facility.
- Representing the arrangers with respect to the acquisition of the Modulaire Group by Brookfield Business Partners.
- Representing the arrangers with respect to a facility upsize by the Carlyle portfolio company Flender.
- Representing The Hut Group on its inaugural underwritten “Cov-lite” TLB facility*.
- Representing Blackrock’s Long Term Private Capital Investment team on the debt financing of its inaugural acquisition*.
- Representing the Arrangers with respect to the acquisition of M Group by PAI Partners SAS*.
- Representing Cinven on its acquisition of the pan-European laboratories business Synlab*.
- Representing the coordinating committee of senior lenders on the restructuring of the Autobar Group*.
All deals marked * were completed at prior firms.
Recognition & Accomplishments
March 2021 – September 2021 Secondment to Goldman Sachs, Loans Negotiation Group, Investment Banking Division in London
May 2016 – December 2016 Secondment to HSBC’s Leveraged and Acquisition Finance Transaction Management Team in London
Education
- The University of Law, Diploma in Law
- University of Oxford, MSc in Financial Economics
- University of the West Indies, Jamaica, BSc in Economics and Mathematics
Admissions
- England and Wales