Robert Byk

Partner, Africa Practice Group Slaughter and May View profile

Robert is a partner with a far-reaching corporate and commercial practise. He has advised on a various financing transactions including complex re-financings involving a mixture of bank financing and debt capital markets issuances, acquisition financing, general banking and corporate transactions. He is a prominent partner in our assiduous Africa practice group.

Robert is listed as a leading individual in the Banking & Finance section of Chambers UK, 2019 as well as being recommended in the Acquisition Finance, Asset Finance and Leasing, Bank Lending (investment grade debt and syndicated loans), Debt Capital Markets and High Yield sections of the Legal 500, 2019. Robert has also featured in the Lawyer Hot 100.

Relevant experience includes:

• Seadrill on its recently announced joint venture with Sonangol in Angola and Gulf Drilling in Qatar and its Chapter 11 restructuring including new equity issuance, revised facilities agreements and additional high yield notes
• Agility Group on the financing of its Reem Mall project in Abu Dhabi and other Agility Group financing arrangements
• Global Infrastructure Partners on:
  • the sale of its 75% interest in London City Airport to a consortium comprised of AIMCo, OMERS, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Wren House Infrastructure Management Limited, the infrastructure investing arm of the Kuwait Investment Authority
  • the sale together with its co-investors of a 50.01% shareholding in London Gatwick Airport to VINCI Airports