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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.
Experience
- Advised Goldman Sachs, Jefferies and Mizuho on all the financing elements of Outbrain’s acquisition of Teads, which consisted of a $625 million funded bridge facility, a $100 million revolving credit facility, and issuance of $637.5 million of 10.000% senior secured notes due 2030, which was used to refinance the bridge facility.
- Advised Cable & Wireless Communications Limited, a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America Ltd., in connection with a $755.0 million senior notes offering and $1.5 billion term loan facility and revolving credit commitment increase and extension
- Acted for BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. (Besi), a leading manufacturer of assembly equipment for the semiconductor industry, on its debut offering of €350 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2031
- Acted for Cable & Wireless Communications Limited, a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America Ltd., and its subsidiaries in connection with a $1 billion bond issuance of Senior Secured Notes as well as in connection with certain maturity extension amendments to the group’s revolving credit facilities
- Acted for Tillman FiberCo, LLC, a leading developer of open-access fiber infrastructure, on its $815 million committed debt financing with a syndicate of lenders, the proceeds of which will support the deployment of fiber-to-the-home networks throughout Florida, with the new credit facility providing for up to $200 million of additional term loans
- Acted for Tillman Infrastructure, LLC, a leading provider of wireless communication infrastructure, on a $500 million term loan facility with a syndicate of lenders, the proceeds of which were used to refinance existing loans and provide additional growth capital to support its wireless carrier and wireless infrastructure service provider customers' infrastructure needs
- Acted for Smurfit Kappa Group on the financing aspects of its proposed combination with WestRock to create Smurfit WestRock, the world's largest listed paper and packaging company, including consent solicitations to existing bondholders of Smurfit and WestRock as well as the issuance of $2.75 billion senior green notes
- Advised Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) on the NY-law aspects of its unitranche and super senior revolving credit facility financing in connection with its acquisition of Law Business Research
- Advised Altice USA on the issuance of $2.05 billion senior guaranteed notes due 2029 by its subsidiary CSC Holdings. The proceeds from the issuance were utilised to prepay CSC Holdings' term loans maturing in 2025 and 2026, further extending the maturities on Altice USA's debt
- Acted for Telecom Italia S.p.A. on the jumbo private placement of €750 million senior notes via a tap of its existing 7.875% senior notes due 2028, the largest ever privately placed European high yield bond issuance as of its issue date
- Acted for Telecom Italia S.p.A. in connection with its offering of €750 million 7.875% senior notes due 2028 and the related tender offers for its near-term debt
- Acted for CSC Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Altice USA, Inc., in connection with its offering of $1 billion 11.250% senior guaranteed notes due 2028
- Acted for CSC Holdings, LLC, a subsidiary of Altice USA, Inc., in connection with the pricing of a new $2 billion 5-year senior secured Term Loan B
- Acted for the initial purchasers in connection with the offering of €450 million 9.250% senior notes due 2028 by Intrum AB (publ)
- 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
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