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Stuart Brinkworth
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Stuart Brinkworth  Partner
+44 (0)20 7111 2050
stuart.brinkworth@sjberwin.com

Stuart is a partner in the Finance Department.

He specialises in acting for UK and international lenders on a variety of leveraged finance transactions, including leveraged buy-outs, public bids, trade purchases and
recapitalisations and has experience of senior, second-lien, mezzanine and PIK debt as well as acquisition bridge financings. Stuart also advises various sponsors and bidding consortia on the financing of leveraged buy-outs. In addition to leveraged finance, Stuart has experience in structured finance (including CDOs and other forms of securitisation), property finance and US private placements.

Recent examples of Stuart’s experience include advising:

Lenders:

  • Bank of Scotland, Bank of Ireland and Allied Irish Banks as joint lead arrangers of the debt finance for Global Radio's £375m recommended bid for GCap Media plc
  • Barclays and RBS as joint lead arrangers of the debt finance to fund the acquisition by Nuffield Hospitals of the Cannons chain of health and fitness clubs
  • Barclays and RBS as joint lead arrangers of the debt finance to fund the recapitalisation of GVA Grimley in conjuntion with the buy-in of LDC
  • Bank of Scotland as lead arranger of the debt finance to fund the secondary buyout by Lydian Capital of Trilogy Health Services in the US
  • Bank of Scotland as lead arranger of the debt finance to fund Global Radio's £170m leveraged buy out of Chrysalis Radio
  • RBS as lead arranger of a £230m facility for Care UK plc, including finance for the acquisition of Mercury Healthcare

Sponsors:

  • ECI Partners in relation to the debt aspects of its £60m recommended bid for Premier Research Group plc
  • CVC in relation to the debt aspects of its $1.7bn acquisition of US based luggage manufacturer Samsonite
  • ECI Partners in relation to the debt aspects of its £52m acquisition of Kelvin Hughes
  • Duke Street Capital in relation to its £88m recommended bid for Oasis Healthcare plc