Steve Quinn

STEVE QUINN has a broad range of experience in UK and international tax planning with a particular focus on debt finance and real estate.

He has considerable experience in structured finance transactions (including RMBS, CMBS, ABCP conduits, covered bonds, whole-business securitizations, and CLOs), capital markets (including high-yield bonds, EMTNs and GMTNs, regulatory capital, and standalone corporate issuances), real estate, and leveraged finance. Steve advises fund sponsors, arrangers, originators, investment managers, lenders, and investors on all tax aspects of financings. He also works as creditor and debtor counsel on restructuring mandates.

Moreover, Steve works with private equity funds, REITs, public and private companies, asset managers and investment funds across the full investment cycle of real estate ownership and associated transactions.

Continuing his consistent recognition in Legal 500 UK (2023–2026), Steve has once again been recommended in the 2027 edition for his work in Corporate Tax.

Recent examples of Steve’s experience include representing:

• The senior lender group in connection with the senior secured financing of nLighten, a pan-European data centre platform backed by I Squared Capital, to fund its expansion across the UK.
• Bonaccord Capital Partners in connection with its second strategic minority investment in Park Square Capital, one of Europe’s leading credit investment firms with more than US$19 billion in assets under management.
• The senior lenders on Xpansiv’s acquisition of Evident, the global Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) network provider.
• Permira on the financing of its £2.3 billion recommended cash offer for JTC plc.
• Juventus Football Club S.p.A. on the successful private placement of its €150 million bond issuance.
• Partners Group, a leading global private markets firm, on the financing arrangements for its acquisition of premium pet food company MPM Products, a global pet food business focused on premium cat food.
• Apollo-managed funds and affiliates in connection with the launch of TenFifty Capital, a new European-focused commercial real estate lending platform.
• Permira and its portfolio company Neuraxpharm on Neuraxpharm’s successful €925 million term loan B refinancing.
• 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.
• Golden Goose S.p.A, a portfolio company of Permira, on tax matters in connection with the issuance of €480 million in euro senior secured floating rate notes due 2031 and related €100 million revolving credit facility.
• 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 center designed for High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications in Norway.
• Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition of Chelsea Football Club and related affiliates in a consortium co-led with Todd Boehly, Chairman and CEO of Eldridge.
• Representing HeadFirst Global on its recommended offer to acquire AIM-listed Impellam Group for approximately £483.2 million.
• Apollo funds on its acquisition of a UK PBSA portfolio and associated management arrangements.
• Pictet Alternative Advisors on financing aspects of its acquisition of Pareto FM.
• Savillex Corporation, a portfolio company of private equity fund Thompson Street Capital Partners, on financing aspects of its strategic acquisition of ONFAB from Foresight Capital Partners.
• Macquarie Asset Management on its clients’ investment in £400 million in notes related to a portfolio of commercial ground leases. In this innovative transaction, the notes are secured against a portfolio of 55 ASDA supermarket sites across the UK.
• Deutsche Bank on multiple repacks/structured products secured on UK commercial real estate revenue. 
• Apollo funds on the structured refinancing of a securitization of student loans by way of securities purchase arrangements.
• GlaxoSmithKline plc and various of its subsidiaries, in connection with a number of significant financing transactions in preparation for the proposed spinoff of GSK’s consumer healthcare business and listing of Haleon plc.
• Apollo on the tax aspects of the debt financing for its agreement to acquire Miller Homes, one of the UK’s leading homebuilders.
• CVC Credit as investment manager to various of its recent European CLO transactions, including Cordatus 9-R, Cordatus 21, Cordatus 25, Cordatus 26, and Cordatus 27, 30, 34, and 39.
• Permira Credit as investment manager to its recent European CLO transactions including Providus VI to XIV.
• Spire Partners as investment manager to its European CLO transactions, including Aurium IX to XV.
• LähiTapiola, a leading Finnish mutual finance and insurance group, on its public STS securitization of Finnish auto loans, Tommi I, as well as each of the subsequent public STS issuances securitized as Tommi II to VII, as well on a private securitization of Finish auto assets.
• Zenith, a portfolio company of Bridgepoint, in relation to its innovative vehicle lease and residual value financing by way of securitization.
• Intermediate Capital Group Alternative Investments (ICG) on the structured, asset-backed fund financing to its Senior Debt Partners Fund 5 and the levered financings and refinancings to a number of other ICG funds and SMAs.
• Bank of America on the structured, asset-backed fund financing provided to a large, separately managed account (SMA) for a Singapore sovereign wealth fund managed by Ares.
• Morgan Stanley Investment Management on the subscription line and asset-backed fund financings to its debut European Direct Lending Fund and related strategies and SMAs.
• Jaja Finance, a leading credit card and finance provider, on its credit card securitization financing from a syndicate of investment banks and alternative asset funds including its most recent securitization upsize and refinancing.
• Argo Blockchain plc in connection with the offering of its 8.75% Senior Notes due 2026.
• A Spanish bank on UK aspects of its first end-to-end blockchain bond.
• The Public Investment Fund on its acquisition of Newcastle United football club.

Some of the above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.