Advestra Advises The Initial Purchasers And RCF Lenders On The Financing Of The Acquisition Of SO.MA.CI.S. By Bain Capital And Of AT&S Korea By SO.MA.CI.S.

Advestra advised the ini­tial pur­chasers in con­nec­tion with the offer­ing ofEUR550mil­lion seni­or secured float­ing rate notes due2031by an affil­i­ate of Bain Cap­it­al for pur­poses of fin­an­cing (i) Bain Capital’s acquis­i­tion ofSO.MA.CI.S. and (ii)SO.MA.CI.S.’ acquis­i­tion ofAT&S Korea. Advestra also rep­res­en­ted the lenders on aEUR100mil­lion super seni­or revolving cred­it facil­ity with respect to Swisslaw.

The ini­tial pur­chasers included Mor­gan Stan­ley&Co. Inter­na­tion­al plc, BofA Secur­it­ies EuropeSA, Crédit Agri­cole Cor­por­ate and Invest­ment Bank, Nomura Fin­an­cial Products Europe GmbH andUBSEuropeSE.

Advestra acted as Swiss leg­al coun­sel to the lenders and ini­tial pur­chasers. The team included Alex­an­der von Jein­sen, Mar­iëlle van Nim­we­gen and Alex­an­der Fisch (all Fin­an­cing) as well as Céline Mar­tin (Tax).