Experience

• • Windstream Holdings, a privately held fiber and cloud based communications provider, in the issuance of $800 million Senior First Lien Notes and the incurrence of a $500 million new term loan facility to refinance a portion of its outstanding indebtedness and a separate consent solicitation to modify certain terms of its $1.4 billion outstanding Senior First Lien Notes in anticipation of its proposed merger with Uniti Group.
  • Verizon in the financing aspects of its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S.
  • Sylvamo in the refinancing of its capital structure, including amending a $625 million credit facility and the establishment of a new $593 million credit facility.
  • Windstream Holdings, a privately held fiber and cloud based communications provider, in the financing aspects of its merger with publicly held Uniti Group.
  • CPP Investments in a structured liquidity transaction, partially divesting a portfolio of energy funds, with initial gross proceeds of approximately $860 million.
  • International Paper, a global producer of renewable fiber-based packaging and pulp products, in financing arrangements related to the separation and spin-off of its global printing papers business, Sylvamo.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Capco in the financing aspects of the $1.45 billion sale of Capco to Wipro.
  • Reynolds Group and Closure Systems International (CSI) in the financing aspects of Cerberus Capital Management’s acquisition of CSI businesses and facilities from Reynolds Group.
  • The Special Conflicts Committee of the Board of Directors of Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. in the sale by Navios of its ship management division and certain general partnership interests to a related party.
  • A leading international private equity firm in the creation of a novel structured finance product which raised $700 million from various investors in the form of rated notes and equity. The transaction was structured to address insurance company risk-based capital charges when investing across a diverse portfolio of alternative fund products.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and TRANZACT in the financing aspects of the $1.3 billion sale of TRANZACT to Willis Towers Watson.
  • Nationstar Mortgage, a leading mortgage servicer and originator, in its $3.8 billion merger with WMIH.
  • Precision Medicine Group in the financing aspects of a new $275 million investment.
  • International Paper in the $1.8 billion combination of its North America Consumer Packaging business with Graphic Packaging.
  • Reynolds Group Holdings in the issuance of $2.1 billion senior secured fixed and floating rate notes and $800 million senior notes.
  • UCI in the $257 million sale of its Wells vehicle electronics business to NGK Spark Plug Co.
  • The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Dell in litigation challenging the $24.9 billion sale of Dell to an investor group including Michael Dell and Silver Lake.
  • Reynolds Group in the financing aspects of its $4.5 billion acquisition of Graham Packaging.
  • The Hertz Corporation in its $3.4 billion asset-based revolving credit and term loan facilities and refinancing of existing facilities, and its $700 million offerings of senior notes.
  • Rank Group in the financing aspects of its $950 million acquisition of Honeywell’s automotive consumer products group.
  • Rank Group in the financing aspects of its $980 million acquisition of UCI International, a North American automotive products business.
  • Reynolds Group in the $3 billion senior secured and unsecured notes issuance and $2.02 billion term loan senior secured financing to finance its $6 billion acquisition of Pactiv.
  • Kelso & Company in the financing aspects of a majority investment in Cronos, including a $765 million revolving credit facility.
  • Syncora Holdings and its subsidiary, Syncora Guarantee, in the subsidiary's comprehensive $6 billion restructuring relating to its transactions with various financial institutions that were counterparties to its credit default swaps and holders of residential mortgage-backed securities that it guaranteed.