Robert Byk

• T  +44 (0)20 7090 3435 (Direct line)
• E  robert.byk@slaughterandmay.com

• London 
• One Bunhill Row, London, EC1Y 8YY

Robert advises on a wide range of banking, finance and corporate transactions, including acquisition and bid finance, structured finance, debt and equity capital markets and general banking and corporate work.

Highlights include advising:

• ISS, one of the world's leading facilities services companies, on the successful extension of certain tranches of its DKK 25.5 billion Senior Facilities Agreement and subsequent amendments to those facilities
• Dufry AG, a leading global travel retailer, in relation to a new US$ 1 billion facility agreement in connection with its acquisitions of Interbaires and on the required amendments to its existing CHF800 million and US$435 million facility agreement
• Lonza, one of the world's leading suppliers to the pharmaceutical, healthcare and life science industries, on its proposed acquisition of Arch Chemicals
• Cemex, on its complex refinancing and restructuring of certain of its debt facilities
• HM Treasury on certain elements of the financial support provided to the Banking Industry

From October 2001 to August 2003, Robert was seconded to Bonelli Erede Pappalardo’s Milan office.