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Mohammed Al Rasheed is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s finance group in London. Mohammed’s experience includes a variety of public and private corporate and financing work, including equity and debt offerings, term loan financings, liability management transactions and fund financing. Prior to rejoining Ropes & Gray in 2022, Mohammed worked in-house at a quantitative asset manager based in London. Mohammed holds law degrees from Duke University School of Law and UEA, in addition to a Master's Degree in Investment & Financial Management from UEA.
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Experience
- Acted for Altice France in connection with the financing aspects of its complex multi-part transaction to significantly simplify the Altice group’s capital structure, including a €2.1 billion equivalent offering of senior notes and senior secured notes, a multi-tranche exchange offer for €1.4 billion and $1.6 billion of notes issued by Altice Luxembourg and the automatic flip-up of €1.6 billion of senior notes to a new holding company of Altice France
- Acted for Liberty Latin America on the bank/bond financing package for its $1.95 billion acquisition of AT&T’s operations in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands
- Acted for Cable & Wireless Communications in connection with its issuance of $150 million of senior secured notes due 2027 and $220 million of senior notes due 2027, each issued as additional notes
- Acted for Altice Luxembourg in connection with the issuance of €2.8 billion senior notes due 2027
- Acted for Cable & Wireless Communications, a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America, in connection with its offering of $400 million 7.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2027
- Acted for Altice USA, Inc. in connection with the financing aspects of the combination of the Suddenlink (Cequel) and Optimum (Cablevision) credit groups under a single credit silo to simplify it structure and operations, involving exchange offers and consent solicitations with respect to six tranches of Suddenlink notes in an amount of $5.5 billion and the refinancing of Suddenlink’s $1.25 billion Term Loan B. Ropes & Gray was awarded the Transatlantic Finance Team of the Year award at the Legal Week Transatlantic Awards in connection with its representation of Altice USA on this transaction
- Acted for Cable & Wireless Communications, a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America, in connection with its SPV-structure offering of $500 million 7.5% Senior Notes due 2026 and English law governed cash tender offer for its £200 million aggregate principal amount of 8.625% Guaranteed Bonds due 2019
- Acted for Wilmington Trust, National Association and Wilmington Trust (London) Limited, as trustee and collateral agent, respectively, in connection with certain bank and bond financing transactions of CEVA Logistics AG, a global logistics and supply chain management company
- Acted for CSC Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Altice USA, Inc., on the offering of $1 billion 5.375% Senior Guaranteed Notes in connection with the separation of Altice USA from Altice N.V.
- Represented an ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders in the Chapter 11 restructuring of Global A&T Electronics Ltd.’s $1.1 billion of secured liabilities
- Acted for Altice Finco S.A. in connection with the offering of $675 million 4.75% Senior Notes due 2028
- Advised the initial purchasers in connection with debut high-yield issuer Intrum Justitia’s €3 billion (equivalent) high yield bond offering in connection with its merger with Lindorff
- Acted for the underwriters in connection with the $1,918 million initial public offering of Altice USA, Inc., one of the largest broadband communications and video services providers in the United States
- Acted for CSC Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Altice USA, Inc., in connection with the offering of $1.31 billion 5½% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2027 to refinance a portion of its $3.8 billion existing Term Loan Facility
- Acted for Altice N.V. on its cross-border equity and debt financing for the acquisition of Cablevision, the leading cable system operator in the New York metropolitan area. The $10.6 billion debt financing package included a $3.8 billion covenant lite term loan, $2 billion revolving facility and three tranches of high yield notes: the offering of $1.8 billion 10⅛% Senior Notes due 2023, $2 billion 10⅞% Senior Notes due 2025 and $1 billion 6⅝% Senior Guaranteed Notes due 2025 and Altice NV also raised €1.6 billion via an equity placement through the accelerated book build method
- Acted for Altice Financing S.A. in connection with the offering of $2.75 billion 7½% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 to refinance certain existing Senior Secured Notes and Term Loan Facilities
- Acted for Altice N.V. in connection with its $1.7 billion high yield bond offering to finance the acquisition of a majority stake in the U.S. telecommunications operator Suddenlink Communications