Tim Volkheimer
Overview
Tim Volkheimer is a capital markets partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has experience in leverage finance and capital markets transactions and mergers and acquisitions.
Tim has acted on deals involving many of the major private equity sponsors and credit funds active in Europe including Bain Capital, Centerbridge, Lone Star and Sun Capital, advising on high yield debt offerings, registered debt and equity offerings as well as distressed financings and restructurings.
Tim has been recognised:
- as a “Rising Star” and “Next Generation Lawyer” by The Legal 500; and
- as a “Notable Practitioner” for Capital Markets: Debt in UK IFLR 1000.
Experience
Representative Matters
Representing TPG Rise Climate and GIC in connection with the offering of €750 million senior secured notes as part of their €6.7 billion leveraged buyout of Techem
Representing STADA group in connection with Nidda Healthcare Holding GmbH’s issuance of €350 million 7% senior secured notes due 2030 by way of a private placement and the redemption of Nidda BondCo GmbH’s 7¼% Senior Notes due 2025 and 5% senior notes due 2025
Representing Befimmo, a Brookfield portfolio company, in connection with its inaugural offering of €350 million senior secured notes
Representing an ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group
Representing investors in connection with Grifols’ private placement of €1.0 billion senior secured notes
Representing Genesis Care in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and $1.7 billion debt restructuring, pursuant to which an existing creditor group emerged as the new majority equity owners of the reorganized
Representing Arrow Global Group in connection with the acquisition and successful recapitalization of AFE by way of a consent solicitation to amend and restate its €307 million senior secured floating rate notes and a private placement of €35 million senior secured floating rate notes
Representing Strategic Value Partners and APCOA to complete a senior secured notes offering
Representing STADA, a Bain and Cinven portfolio company, in connection with its offering of €650 million senior secured notes and €600 million senior secured floating rate notes
Representing Strategic Value Partners and Pfleiderer to close a liability management transaction
Representing an ad hoc group of noteholders on the restructuring and recapitalization of Metalcorp and Ferralum Metals
Representing an ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group
Representing funds managed by AGG Capital Management on the acquisition of a majority stake in AFE
Representing Centerbridge Partners on the sale of its majority interests in APCOA
Representing TE Connectivity on the securities regulation aspects in relation to the all-cash public tender offer for Schaffner Holding AG
Representing Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A. and its shareholders Bain Capital and NB Renaissance Partners in connection with the financing aspects of the proposed acquisition of Be Shaping the Future S.p.A., including an offering of €385 million of high yield bonds
Representing NMC Healthcare, via its joint administrators, on its successful $7.6 billion financial restructuring
Representing Allwyn Entertainment and KKCG Investment Group on Allwyn’s $9.3 billion NYSE listing
Representing Centerbridge Partners and APCOA Parking on its €685 million senior secured notes offering and €80 million Super Senior Revolving Credit Facility
Representing Tele Columbus AG on a capital increase in the amount of €475 million
Representing Pfleiderer, a portfolio company of Strategic Value Partners, in connection with its offering of €750 million sustainability-linked senior secured fixed and floating rate notes
Representing the initial purchasers in connection with Pinewood Studio’s offering of senior secured notes
Representing Leif Höegh & Co. Ltd. and funds managed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners through a 50/50 joint venture vehicle to acquire the shares in Höegh LNG Holdings Ltd.
Representing Klöckner Pentaplast, a portfolio company of Strategic Value Partners, in connection with its €1.9 billion refinancing, which included senior secured notes, senior unsecured notes and a term loan with ESG-linked ratchet
Representing Bain Capital and NB Renaissance Partners in connection with the financing for their acquisition of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., including an offering of €605 million of high yield bonds
Representing an ad hoc group of noteholders of Hertz Corporation, a leading provider of vehicle rentals around the world with more than 10,000 locations across North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and New Zealand, in connection with a successful consent solicitation and waiver process that avoided the need for Hertz’s European subsidiaries to file insolvency proceedings, as well as Hertz’s pending Chapter 11 restructuring, which will address approximately $19.1 billion in funded debt obligations and other liabilities
Representing EG Group in connection with the offering by EG Global Finance plc of its senior secured notes
Representing Algeco Scotsman Global S.à r.l in connection with the offering by Algeco Scotsman Global Finance plc of its senior secured notes
Representing Lone Star on its acquisition of Imerys Roofing
Representing Lone Star on its acquisition of Stark Group
Representing the initial purchasers in connection with Picard’s offering of senior secured notes
Representing Klockner Pentaplast on its acquisition of LINPAC Group
Representing Centerbridge Partners and Senvion Group in connection with Senvion’s offering of senior secured notes
Representing Lone Star on its acquisition of the Xella Group
Representing The Carlyle Group and Mydentist in connection with Mydentist’s offering of senior secured notes and private placement of Second Lien Notes
Representing Bain Capital on its acquisition of Autodistribution
Representing Edcon Group on the comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure
Representing Sun Capital and Coveris Group in connection with Coveris’s offering of senior notes
Prior Experience
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, London
Clifford Chance LLP, Frankfurt, Germany
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Recognition
IFR Awards, “Europe High-Yield Bond” award for Pinewood's £550m six-year bond
Transatlantic Legal Awards, “Transatlantic Debt Capital Markets Team of the Year”
Law 360, “Capital Markets Group of the Year”
IFLR Europe, “Team of the Year, High Yield”
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2011New York
Languages
- English
- German
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolJ.D.2010
- University College LondonLL.B.2010