Squire Patton Boggs has appointed Chris Hastings as a Partner in its financial services practice group in London. Hastings, who joins from Eversheds Sutherland, is a finance lawyer focused on leveraged and acquisition financing.
Hastings acts for private equity firms and their portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and for private credit funds in relation to transactions at all levels of capital structures. His experience covers complex domestic and international transactions in support of M&A activity, leveraged buyouts, refinancing and distressed or opportunistic investments.
Among recent work, Hastings acted for Inflexion on its acquisition of a minority stake in Goat (and subsequent sale to WPP), an influencer and social media marketing agency; for Aurelius, on its carve-out of UK property services provider TM Group from Dye & Durham; and for Pollen Street Capital, on the acquisition of Assessio, a talent assessment software platform in the Nordics.
Recent private credit mandates have included advising the London-based teams of Tresmares Capital and Eurazeo on mid-market direct lending mandates to support domestic and international PE-backed businesses.
