Yemi Tépé

Practice Areas

• Acquisition + Leveraged Finance

• Public to private takeovers

• Debt structuring and restructuring

• Fund Finance

• Margin Loans

• Private Equity

• Syndicated lending

• Real Estate Finance

Career

Yemi Tépé is Global Co-Chair of the Finance Group of Morrison Foerster. With more than 24 years advising clients on the full spectrum of event-driven financings and private equity buyouts, she has extensive experience in domestic and cross-border acquisition and leveraged finance, public to private takeovers, real estate finance, debt structuring and restructuring, margin loans, syndicated lending and subscription line financing.

Her clients include banks, financial institutions, private equity sponsors, alternative financiers, and emerging growth, mid-cap, and large companies.

Her practice spans Asia, the United States, and Europe, with a particular focus on Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

Industry Sector Expertise

Sector Specialisations

• Banks and financial institutions

• Education

• Energy

• Private equity

• Real estate

• Technology and telecommunications

Work Highlights

Representative Experience:

• GLP China Logistics Fund I and its affiliates in the $5 billion recapitalization and exit of the portfolio developed within the fund, which was GLP’s flagship USD-denominated develop-to-core fund formed in 2013 to invest in prime, institutional-grade modern logistics assets in China.

• The senior lenders on the acquisition financing to CVC Capital Partners for the acquisition of TRY Group, the largest one-to-one tutoring services provider in Japan.

• GLP Pte. Ltd. in relation to subscription line facilities for GLP Japan Development Partners IV (JDP IV), which will have USD9.1 billion in assets under management when fully deployed, one of the largest-ever Japan-focused private real estate funds.

• GLP Pte. Ltd. on a USD658 million sustainability linked syndicated loan facility.

• The mezzanine lenders on the acquisition financing to CVC Capital Partners for the USD1.5 billion acquisition of Shiseido's personal care business.

• The mezzanine lenders on Bain Capital’s approximately USD380 million acquisition of Kirindo, a Japanese pharmacy chain store operator.

• SoftBank Group Corporation in connection with senior and mezzanine acquisition facilities for OYO’s acquisition of Netherlands-based @Leisure.

• PA Chokmah Investment Limited (wholly owned by Ping An Overseas Holdings), as lender in relation to a HKD500 million convertible loan to Wisdom Education International Holdings Company Limited, a Hong Kong listco, principally engaged in operating premium primary and secondary schools in China.

• BlackRock in relation to offshore and onshore acquisition financing in its acquisition of two blocks of grade-A office buildings in Changning, Shanghai from PGIM Real Estate, a property investment affiliate of Prudential Financial.

• MUFG Bank, Ltd. as mandated lead arranger and underwriter of acquisition facilities for two strategic acquisitions aggregating close to USD1billion by Siam City Cement Public Company Limited, a listco on the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Thailand’s second largest cement producer, from LafargeHolcim Ltd.

• Various lenders and private equity funds in relation to capital call/subscription facilities, fund financings and borrowing base facilities.