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Helping clients move the market and maximize value.
Our Private Credit & Special Situations group consists of over 100 finance and restructuring attorneys with deep experience representing private credit and debt funds, BDCs, special situations, opportunistic, distressed and dislocation funds, fulcrum lenders, equity-holders, hedge funds, CLOS and financial institutions through varied market cycles. We are one team delivering thoughtful solutions and essential information to clients at every stage of the lifecycle of a private credit investment. We empower our clients in the market by driving peer-to-peer engagement and discourse.
We are commercial, innovative and solution oriented. Partnering with our clients, we always take a forward-looking approach to market terms, monitoring industry trends to identify opportunities and anticipate rather than react. We offer clients our market insights and knowledge based on our multidisciplinary expertise, proprietary database, and strong industry relationships.
Leveraged Finance & High Yield
We leverage our knowledge and experience to provide credit funds and non-bank lenders with comprehensive, solutions-focused service with respect to their investment opportunities, including:
- direct lending (first lien secured loans, unitranche products, and ABL/FILO tranches and unsecured loans)
- junior capital (second lien and mezzanine loans/notes, private high-yield placements, holdco pik loans/notes, or preferred or convertible equity investments)
- credit opportunities and special situation financings
- bespoke products that satisfy credit fund sensitivities
- new money primary issuance, including custom indenture products
- loans, high yield and investment grade bonds
- CLO investing
- stressed / distressed debt
- refinancings and dividend recapitalizations
- venture debt
Distressed and Opportunistic Representations
We structure and implement innovative and value-accretive restructuring solutions across a broad spectrum of transactions. From initial group formation stage through transaction completion, we are involved in every aspect of formulating, negotiating, and effectuating a restructuring. We represent lenders and lender groups in in-court and out-of-court financial and operational restructurings and work-outs, including:
- balance sheet refinancings and/or providing capital solutions to stressed credits (including structured debt-equity investing, equity co-investments, and preferred stock)
- exit and rescue financings
- representing the interests of the equitized lenders as company counsel post-restructuring
- 363 sale and plan sponsor transactions
Range of Disciplines
Leveraging a diversity of experience among top tier finance, restructuring, capital markets, private equity and regulatory lawyers, we advise clients on each of the key components needed for any credit representation. We provide a seamless delivery of multidisciplinary services across practice areas, including Real Estate, Private Equity, Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare, Energy, and Litigation teams to provide experienced counsel to our clients across all public and private sectors.
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