David Becker
Biography
David Becker is a partner in the Firm's Capital Markets, High Yield & Leveraged Finance Group. David joined the Firm in 2019 after having spent a total of 20 years in the Wall Street and London offices of two other leading international law firms.
Practice Focus
David is a highly regarded high yield and leveraged finance specialist, advising banks, private credit and alternative capital providers, borrowers and issuers on a broad range of high yield, leveraged finance, liability management and restructuring transactions across the debt capital structure and over the full credit life cycle.
Representative Legal Matters
- Represented a syndicate of 10 investment banks as underwriters, arrangers and lenders on a USD 2.5 billion high yield bond offering and concurrent six-tiered priority acceptance fixed price and fixed spread tender offer/liability management exercise for Teva Pharmaceuticals. David has been designated banks counsel to Teva since 2009, representing its lenders, lead arrangers, initial purchasers, underwriters and dealer managers across Teva’s debt capital structure, including the committed bridge and bank financing backing Teva’s USD 40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan Generics. In aggregate since 2009, David has advised Teva’s banks on approximately USD 70 billion of committed acquisition and corporate debt and high yield bond and sustainability linked financings and related complex liability management exercises.
- Represented Unikmind Holdings on all aspects of its USD 1.6 billion public- to-private takeover of London listed Kape Technologies plc.
- Represented Fattal Hotel Group and its lenders on over €1 billion in acquisition financing across multiple Fattal Hotel Group portfolios.
- Represented Mohari Capital on its circa USD 500 million private high yield and preferred investment into Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection.
- Represented eToro Limited, the multi-asset investment and social trading platform on its USD250 million debt financing.
- Represented the initial purchasers on the GBP 255 million senior secured high yield bond offering/super senior revolver financing for global gaming technology company Inspired Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: INSE), as well as having represented the underwriters in a 6.2 million share secondary equity offering of Inspired shares.
- Acting for the initial purchasers in connection with the issuance by Cabot Financial (Luxembourg) II S.A. of EUR 400 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured floating rate notes due 2024.
- Represented LabTech Group in its GBP 900 million senior secured Term Loan B financing.
- Represented GSO Capital Partners in the EUR 600 million private high yield to fund the merger of Polynt Composites and Reichhold.
- Represented 4finance S.A. in its EUR 175 million senior notes high yield bond offering.
Professional Honors
“David Becker is one of the smartest lawyers I have ever worked with. He works across different products and is exceptional at working on cross-over or non-standard transactions. David is simply the person you want to be your adviser on any transaction.” — Legal 500, 2025
Admissions
- England & Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer) (2019)
- New York~United States (1999)
Education
- Columbia University School of Law (JD)
- Yeshiva University (BA)
Languages
- English
- Hebrew
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.