Yemi Tépé

Yemi has over 18 years’ experience advising on significant multi-jurisdictional financings across Asia, the U.S and Europe. She advises banks, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, alternative financiers, emerging growth, mid-cap, and large companies on acquisition and leveraged finance, public to private takeovers, real estate finance, debt restructuring, margin loans, syndicated lending and subscription line financing.

• Nurture Education (Cayman) Limited, wholly owned by Ascendent Capital Partners, as noteholder on US$150 million secured convertible and exchangeable bonds issued by Best Assistant Education Online Limited, an education business subsidiary of NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (Stock Code: 777.HK).
• Ascendent Automation (Cayman) Limited, wholly owned by Ascendent Capital Partners, as joint offeror on the acquisition financing relating to its offer to privatise China Automation Group Limited (CAG) (Stock Code: 0569.HK) by way of a Cayman scheme of arrangement for HK$391,998,649.50, and Ascendent Capital Partners as lender which also provided a loan facility to the other joint offeror (being the controlling shareholder of CAG) for the purpose of the offer.
• BlackRock as borrower in the acquisition financing of two blocks of grade-A office buildings at Waterfront Place, Shanghai from PGIM Real Estate, a property investment affiliate of Prudential Financial. Waterfront Place is located in the south-eastern corner of Changfeng Ecological Business District, a rapidly evolving industrial cluster area at Suzhou Riverside. The deal marked BlackRock’s second successful acquisition of office buildings in Shanghai in 2017.  
• GLP Pte. Ltd. as borrower on financing in connection with the formation of two new European funds. These funds, which increase the size of GLP’s fund management platform by US$4 billion (€3.4 billion) to US$43 billion, were formed in conjunction with GLP’s acquisition of Gazeley, a premier developer, investor and manager of European logistics warehouses and distribution parks. The first fund, GLP Europe Income Partners I, comprises a US$2 billion portfolio of Gazeley’s operating assets across the key European markets of the UK, Germany, France and the Netherlands. The second fund, GLP Europe Development Partners I, is a development venture expected to reach US$2 billion (€1.7 billion) when fully leveraged and invested. 
• MUFG as mandated lead arranger and underwriter of acquisition facilities for two strategic acquisitions aggregating close to US$1billion by Siam City Cement Public Company Limited (SCCC), a listco on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. SCCC acquired a 99% stake in Sri Lanka leading cement manufacturer Holcim (Lanka) Limited and a 65% stake in leading ready-mix concrete producer LafargeHolcim Vietnam from Switzerland-based building material producer LafargeHolcim Ltd. This was one of the largest (in terms of deal value) acquisition financing transactions in Asia in 2016/2017 and had significant press coverage. It was a very high profile auction bid in the Asia market with allegedly over 20 potential bidders from large strategic conglomerates to international private equity firms.  

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Private equity
• Real estate finance
• Restructuring and insolvency

• Banking
• Financial services
• Investment management
• Real estate
• Tech and telecoms

• University of Essex, LL.B., 1996; College of Law, London, 1997