Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has advised Windstream in connection with 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 (NASDAQ: UNIT).

The Debevoise team was led by capital markets partners Ben Pedersen and Steven Slutzky and finance partner Ryan Rafferty, and included capital markets associates Mary Aertker, Kelly Donoghue, John Jacob, Joseph Mattis, Michael Pan and Michael Stephan and law clerk Nicholas Vota, and finance counsel Christopher Rosenkrans and associates Missy Aja, Lachlan Conroy, Matthew Jahnle and Jonathan Yuen.