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.
  • Cornerstone Building Brands, a manufacturer of exterior building products, in its offering of $500 million senior secured notes due 2029.
  • An international professional services firm in its role as the Monitoring Trustee, appointed by the European Commission, to monitor the compliance of a biotechnology company with the commitments given to the Commission pursuant to its Phase II merger control investigation of an acquisition.
  • Windstream Holdings, a privately held fiber and cloud based communications provider, in the financing aspects of its merger with publicly held Uniti Group.
  • KKR in its secondary public offering of Class A Common Stock of Crescent Energy, a U.S. independent energy company with a portfolio of assets concentrated in Texas and the Rockies, and concurrent Sale of Units of Crescent Energy OpCo LLC.
  • Morgan Stanley, Barclays, HSBC and Wells Fargo Securities, as representatives of the underwriters, in the public offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of Tier 3 5.750% Senior Notes by RenaissanceRe due 2033.
  • Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, as representatives of the underwriters, in the offering and sale of $1.4 billion of common shares by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing aspects of its $5.8 billion acquisition of Cornerstone Buildings Brands, the largest manufacturer of exterior buildings products in North America.
  • Breakthrough Properties in the formation of Breakthrough Life Science Property Fund, a $3 billion life science real estate property investment program.
  • Carlyle in the formation of Carlyle Credit Opportunities Fund II, a $4.6 billion credit opportunities fund.
  • Manulife in its $750 million U.S. offering of 3.703% senior “green” notes due 2032.
  • Oak HC/FT in the formation of Oak HC/FT Partners IV, a $1.4 billion U.S. venture fund investing in healthcare and financial services sectors.