Session 7, 27.11.2025, 10.30-11.15 Uhr

In this roundtable Vantage Towers will be taking the audience through the structuring and private Ratings process that supported and secured a successful inaugural private placement issuance of 2 Billion Euro to refinance existing bank debt earlier this year. Find out more about the timeline, the investor process and the importance of a future-proof financing platform. 

Im Gespräch

Sven Lickfeld

Bereichsleiter Corporate Finance, Head of M&A and Treasury,
Vantage Towers AG

Sven Lickfeld is responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions, Portfolio Management, and Treasury & Insurance at Vantage Towers AG, one of Europe’s leading mobile network infrastructure providers. Sven joined Vantage Towers in 2021 and led the partial sale of the company to private equity investors KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners/BlackRock in a public tender offer and take-private, valuing the company at €16bn. In this context, he implemented a new financing structure, taking out €2.2bn of senior unsecured bonds and replacing them with €5.6bn of senior secured loans, which he recently refinanced with €2.0bn US private placement notes. Sven holds a diploma degree in Business Mathematics, is a Certified Corporate Treasurer VDT®, and has 20 years of experience in Corporate Finance. Before joining Vantage Towers, Sven worked in different roles for Merck and Deutsche Bank.

Gastgeber

Luke Bennett

Head of Institutional Capital & Rating Advisory,
MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Luke is Head of Institutional Capital & Rating Advisory at MUFG’s Structured Finance Office for EMEA. With 10+ years’ experience in structured finance, he has led numerous public and private infrastructure and energy capital markets financings. Since joining MUFG in 2017 from UniCredit, he has worked on key transactions including Seagreen, ADCOP, Hornsea, and Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farms.

Dieser Roundtable findet auf Englisch statt.