Eleanor Oates

ELEANOR OATES advises on a broad range of debt finance transactions, with clients including private equity sponsors, corporates, investment banks, and credit funds.

Eleanor trained and qualified as a solicitor in Sidley’s London office, where she gained experience in the firm’s Corporate, Private Equity, Leveraged Finance, Employment, and Data Privacy practices.

Recent examples of work include advising:

• Atento in its successful UK restructuring plans.
• J.C. Flowers & Co., a private investment firm dedicated to investing in the financial services industry, in its acquisition of Pepper Advantage.
• Pinebridge Investments on a financing for a leading pharmaceutical and biotech consulting group.
• Franklin Templeton on its mezzanine financing of AMPYR Distributed Energy, a renewable technologies business.
• Adevinta, a leading European online classifieds group backed by a consortium of shareholders including Blackstone and Permira, on financing arrangements to refinance its existing debt facilities and facilitate a distribution to shareholders.
• H.I.G. Capital and PolarDC Group Limited on the structuring and first-phase financing of a multi-phase project to deliver a leading data centre designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications in Norway.