Sonam Cheema

About Sonam Cheema

Sonam is a Senior Associate in our Leveraged Finance team and a member of the Global Transactions group in London.

She has acquisition finance, refinancing and restructuring experience, and has worked with private equity sponsors, corporates, banks and other alternative capital providers.

Sonam trained at Freshfields and has spent time on secondment to CVC Capital Partners and Freshfields New York.

Recent work

• Hellman & Friedman and AutoScout24, the leading pan-European online automotive market place, on the financing of its acquisition of TRADER Corporation, which operates Canada's leading online automotive marketplaces.
• Saga plc on its 2025 senior secured term and revolving credit facilities.
• Advising certain lenders in connection with the restructuring of Casino's EUR 6bn debt.
• Li-Cycle on the issuance of certain senior secured convertible notes to Glencore Ltd.
• JTI on the financing aspects of its $2.4bn acquisition of Vector Group Ltd.
• KfW IPEX-Bank on a limited recourse financing for the Hybar project, a steel recycling and rebar project in Arkansas, USA.
• Solvay on its DOE grant financing and intercompany financing arrangements in connection with its battery chemical manufacturing JV.
• Roku on its $300m revolving credit facility.
• Corten Capital on the unitranche financing supporting its acquisition of Ekco Cloud Holding.
• Cazoo in relation to its restructuring.
• AEA on the unitranche financing of its acquisition of leading industrial automation system integrator, SCIO Automation.
• Advising Bain Capital and Cinven on the financing for their acquisition of Arxada (formerly Lonza Specialty Ingredients).
• Advising Bain Capital's and Cinven’s portfolio company, Arxada, on the financing for Arxada’s acquisitions of Troy Corporation and Enviro Tech Chemical Services, Inc.
• Cinven on the bank/bond financing to support its acquisition of Arcaplanet and subsequent sale to Fressnapf Group.
• Charterhouse and its portfolio company SERB Specialty Pharmaceuticals on the €800m equivalent unitranche financing of SERB's acquisition of the BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals business from Boston Scientific Corporation.
• Entain plc on the refinancing of its existing $1,125bn term loan B and £590m revolving credit facility.
• CVC Capital Partners plc on $1.25bn inaugural issuance and $200m follow-on issuance of privately placed notes.
• Petershill Partners on the issuance of $500 million of privately placed notes.
• CVC Capital Partners plc on finance related aspects of its 2024 IPO.
• CVC and Tipico on the financing of CVC's acquisition of Tipico Group and subsequent refinancing/incremental/repricing transactions.
• CVC and Lipton on the financing of CVC's acquisition of Lipton from Unilever.
• CVC and Rayner, the ophthalmic medical products manufacturer, on the financing of Rayner's acquisition of the Omidria franchise from Omeros.
• CVC and Webpros on the financing of CVC's acquisition of WebPros from Oakley Capital and subsequent refinancing.
• CVC and Ontic on the financing of CVC's acquisition of Ontic from BBA Aviation and subsequent incremental/refinancing transactions.
• CVC on the unitranche financing supporting their acquisition of System C.
• CVC and Etraveli on the financing of CVC's acquisition of Etraveli, the online travel agency, and subsequent incremental/repricing/refinancing transactions.
• CVC on the financing of its acquisition of QA Group, the IT and business skills provider.
• The underwriters on the financing of Eurazeo’s acquisition of Fintrax.
• AEA and the Sparrows Group on its Nordic bond and ssRCF refinancing.
• Permira Debt Managers on the financing of David Brown Systems.