Zarmina Tirmzi

• Advised Boparan Holdings Limited on the offering of senior secured notes, tender offer for existing notes and amendment and restatement of an existing senior revolving credit facility.
• Represented Carlyle on the financing for its acquisition of Indian headquartered global IT services company, Hexaware Technologies Limited.
• Advised a consortium of commercial bank lenders on the refinancing of approximately US$1.2 billion for the Ichthys LNG project in Australia.
• Advised Adani Group on the US$288 million project financing for two wind-solar hybrid power projects in India.
• Advised TPG, as a co-investor with Northstar, on financing the acquisition of 80% of Greenfields Dairy, a Singapore-based dairy company, with business in Indonesia.
• Advised Swiss Life Asset Management AG, on behalf of a Swiss Life Infrastructure Fund, on the US$165 million financing in connection with its acquisition of Infrareal GmbH, an owner and operator of life science parks in Germany.
• Advised CDH Investments on the €75 million financing in connection with the acquisition of a stake in WOW Tech International, a Germany-based company that develops and markets intimate products.
• Advised Platinum Equity Advisors on the US$165 million term loan, cash bridge, and revolving credit facility in connection with its acquisition of PCI Private Limited, an investment holding company and provider of electronics and manufacturing services.
• Advised Darby Asia Opportunities Fund III Management Co. Ltd. on its investments in a Chinese food and beverages company.
• Advised UBS Europe SE on an additional facility for CatLuxe SARL (Pronovias) in connection with the acquisition of Ladybird, a Dutch bridal company.
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers on the term, capital expenditure and revolving credit facilities for the Pure Fitness Group in connection with its acquisition by FountainVest Partners and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.
• Advised Citibank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Barclays Bank and RBC on a senior secured asset-based term loan facility.
• Advised the mandated lead arrangers in connection with a €1.3 billion financing for the acquisition by Tencent Holdings of a significant stake in US music entertainment company, Universal Music Group.
• Advised PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk, an Indonesia-based company that explores, develops, and produces crude oil and natural gas, on the amendment and restatement of a term loan facility.
• Advised Tianqi Lithium Corporation on the US$2.5 billion senior and US$1 billion mezzanine syndicated term loans in connection with its acquisition of a stake in SQM, a Chilean lithium mining company.

Zarmina Tirmzi advises financial institutions, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on a wide range of complex cross-border banking and finance transactions including acquisition finance, project finance, infrastructure finance, structured finance, private credit lending, distressed debt, special situations and debt restructuring. 

With a background in leveraged and acquisition finance, her practice extends across various sectors including energy and power, resources, investment funds, real estate, retail and education and multiple jurisdictions including Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Zarmina is English law-qualified and prior to joining King & Spalding, Zarmina practiced as a lawyer at another US law firm in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. She also has experience working in-house at a leading US bank.