Tania Bedi

TANIA BEDI has extensive experience primarily advising sponsors, companies, and borrowers on complex financing arrangements. In addition, she also has advised financial institutions, private credit funds, and other lenders on a wide range of transactions.

Tania has a deep understanding and breadth of experience in structuring and executing some of the most complex and high-value finance transactions in the London and European markets, particularly leveraged buyouts, acquisition finance, telecom finance, bridge-to-bond financing, general banking, and restructuring transactions. She has been involved in structuring debt packages, drafting and negotiating facilities agreements, bridge-to-bond facility documentation, inter-creditor deeds, and security documents.

Tania is recommended in Legal 500 UK 2025 for Acquisition Finance, where it states that she “is noted for her debtor and creditor expertise.” Tania was also named to The Lawyer Hot 100 in 2012, which recognizes “the most daring, innovative, and creative lawyers.”

Recent examples of Tania’s work include advising:

Sponsor-side

• Nordic Capital on the financing arrangements in connection with its public-to-private acquisition of Cary Group, an auto repair center operator.
• Ara Partners on the financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of VAC Germany Holding GmbH and VAC Beteiligungs-GmbH.
• Ares Management on its investment of up to US$600 million in SB Energy, the renewable energy project developer.
• TPG in the €1.2 billion secondary buyout acquisition of Ontex N.V., from Candover Partners Limited. The debt financing was supplied by two leading investment banks.
• TPG Capital in connection with its US$560 million acquisition of a 30% stake in Saxo Bank A/S, the Danish securities and forex brokerage, and asset management firm from Banco Espirito Santo SA and General Atlantic LLC.
• Nordic Capital in relation to the restructuring and advising on strategy in relation to certain existing debt facilities of its portfolio companies, Luvata Oy and the Eco Group.
• The mezzanine lenders in the €1.82 billion acquisition of BSN Medical, a leading German medical supplies manufacturer, by Swedish private equity house EQT.

Borrower-side

• Shift4 Payments on the financing arrangements in connection with its acquisition of Credorax, an Israel-based software financial technology company.
• Liberty Global in connection with its €3.95 billion equivalent dual currency loan financing package in relation to its takeover offer to acquire Dutch-listed cable company Ziggo N.V., with approximate value of €10 billion.
• Liberty Global in connection with the financing for its approximate €3.16 billion acquisition of Germany’s third-largest cable TV operator, Kabel BW Erste Beteiligungs GmbH, from Swedish private equity group EQT Partners AB.
• United ACM Holdings, a subsidiary of Liberty Global, Inc., on its US$2.19 billion acquisition of Swiss cable company, Cablecom Holding AG.
• UPC Broadband Holding B.V. on the €3.3 billion refinancing of its existing debt. The institutional tranche of the debt, together with a previous tranche, represents one of the largest in total for a European non-investment grade company and one of the largest Euro tranches.
• UPC Distribution Holding B.V. in the refinancing of its bank debt (approximately €2.5 billion). This involved amendment and restatement of existing facilities, reviewing various security documents, and negotiations with lenders in relation to the same.
• Essent N.V. (largest energy company in the Netherlands) in relation to the provision of certain letter of credit facilities and revolving credit facilities (€1.5 billion).

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.