Experience

• • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its investment in Vialto Partners as part of a recapitalization transaction that delivered a $225 million equity capital investment in Vialto and an approximately $550 million reduction in Vialto’s outstanding debt.
  • Oaktree Capital Management in various debt and equity investments.
  • One Rock Capital Partners, as sponsor of Robertshaw US Holding in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case.
  • Citadel Advisers LLC in reviewing and evaluating various potential debt investments.
  • An international auto-parts manufacturer in certain amendments to its financing documents, as well in negotiating certain agreements with customers of one of its European manufacturing plants.
  • CPPIB Credit Investments, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, in a loan participation arrangement between CPPIB and a leading international financial institution.
  • Rothschild & Co., Evercore, and Stifel Financial Corp. (f/k/a Miller Buckfire) in numerous bankruptcy and retention application matters across the country.
  • Brigade Capital Management, the largest creditor of Guitar Center, in the company’s recapitalization through a prepackaged Chapter 11 case, resulting in affiliates of Brigade, together with affiliates of Ares and Carlyle, controlling Guitar Center and eliminating $800 million in Guitar Center debt.
  • The Mortimer Sackler family group, former directors and shareholders of Purdue Pharma, Inc. and related entities, in prescription opioid litigation in various fora across the country and in the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma, Inc., filed in the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court.
  • Philippine Airlines in its filing for chapter 11 protection in New York to implement a comprehensive restructuring, which is supported by substantially all of its lenders, lessors, and aircraft and engine suppliers, as well as its majority shareholder, that will allow the company to successfully reorganize its finances and fleet to navigate the COVID-19 crisis and emerge as a leaner and better-capitalized airline. The transaction received the Restructuring Community Impact and the Restructuring Deal of the Year (Over $5B) awards by The M&A Advisor at its 16th Annual Turnaround Awards, as well as AirFinance Journal’s Asia-Pacific Deal of the Year and Airline Economics’ Asia Pacific Restructuring Deal of the Year.