Nick Syson Bio

Nick is a market-leading leveraged and infrastructure finance specialist. He acted on his first leveraged buyout in 1988, set up the firm’s leveraged finance practice in 2001 with Gideon Moore and was Co-Head of the Leveraged Finance Practice until 2016. He was elected by the Partners to the firm’s supervisory board for consecutive terms, he served on the firm’s audit committee for two terms and also the firm’s fairness committee for two terms (two terms being the firm’s constitutional maximum period for each of these roles). Nick has worked on many leading leveraged finance transactions and infrastructure acquisition financing, including Alliance Boots (which, for 13 years, was the largest European LBO), the Gala Coral Opco/Propco, the double P2P of Valantino and Hugo Boss, NCP, John Laing ,the first post GFC pre-package sale of a distressed private equity asset to its lenders for non-cash consideration, the early cov-lite leveraged financings such as Webhelp and LGC and the LBOs of MasMovil and Coty which were the first new issuance transactions in the LBO market after the first Covid 19 lockdown. He has recently worked on the public bids for The Royal Mail and ESR (in Hong Kong), and the financing of KKR Infrastructure’s minority investment in Enilive.