Jan Penselin advises clients on the full spectrum of debt financings, particularly with a DACH region (Germany, Austria, or Switzerland) nexus.

Mr. Penselin leverages a breadth of global capital markets knowledge and local market expertise to advise corporates, sponsors, and investment banks on:

  • Complex high-yield bond transactions under US and German law
  • Crossover bonds
  • Commitment papers for bridge-to-bond financing transactions
  • Liability management transactions
  • Large corporate bonds
  • High yield bond advice in restructuring context
  • P2P financing transactions
  • Lending transactions

He understands the commercial factors that drive clients at every stage of their life cycle and devises business-focused corporate finance solutions that support their growth. Mr. Penselin unlocks Latham’s robust platform — especially through integration across the M&A, banking, and teams — to help clients achieve their objectives.

Mr. Penselin also helps clients navigate the intersection of capital markets and private capital, as product terms converge amid complex capital structures.

Prior to joining Latham, Mr. Penselin worked for leading law firms in Frankfurt and London for several years.

Mr. Penselin’s experience includes advising:

Corporate Finance

  • Triton/RENK Group on several bond offerings amounting to €520 million, its private placement and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and in relation thereto refinancing of existing facilities and high-yield bonds
  • Cheplapharm Arzneimittel on several bond offerings, with a total issue volume of €1.5 billion, its proposed initial public offering, and on an equity private placement through a convertible instrument
  • ARDIAN/Löwen Play on several bond offerings, with total offering volume of €585 million, including RCF financing, and a comprehensive financial restructuring and recapitalization involving the first-ever UK scheme of arrangement applied for by a German issuer after Brexit

High Yield Bond Transactions

  • Mahle GmbH, as banks’ counsel, on its €500 million bond offering
  • Consolidated Energy, as banks’ counsel, on its US$815 million bond offering
  • Kongsberg Automotive on its €275 million bond offering, including revolving credit facility (RCF) financing and €60 million trade receivables securitization facility
  • KAEFER Isoliertechnik, as banks’ counsel, on its €250 million bond offering, including RCF/guarantee facility financing
  • BC Partners/CeramTec, as banks’ counsel, on its €406 million bond offering
  • Peach Property Group on several bond offerings, with a total offering volume of €550 million, including bridge financing and subsequent cash tender offer
  • Consus Real Estate on several bond offerings as banks’ counsel, with total offering volume of €450 million

Lending

  • Norma Group, as borrower’s counsel, on several refinancings, amounting to €380 million of existing credit lines by a credit agreement with sustainability component, including RCF and accordion facility
  • Alanta Health Group, as borrower’s counsel, on a €331 million refinancing of existing loans

Crossover Bonds

  • ACCENTRO Real Estate, as banks’ counsel, on its €250 million bond offering and subsequent restructuring
  • DEMIRE Deutsche Mittelstand Real Estate on several bond offerings, with total offering volume exceeding €1 billion, including bridge financing
  • Summit Germany on its €300 million bond offering and subsequent cash tender offer
  • Vivion, as banks’ counsel, on a private placement tap of senior notes and the establishment of its EMTN program

Equity and Equity-Linked Financings

  • MorphoSys, as banks’ counsel, on its US$239 million US initial public offering
  • NOVEM, as issuer’s counsel, on its initial public offering and listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

Education

  • Second State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, 2009
  • First State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Hamburg, 2007
  • LL.B, Bucerius Law School, 2006

Languages Spoken

  • German
  • English

Practices