Paul Rodel is a corporate partner and Co-Chair of Debevoise’s Capital Markets Group and a member of the firm’s Private Equity Group. He represents ...
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Experience
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- Corebridge Financial in its offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount of 6.375% Fixed-to-Fixed Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes due 2054.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial in AIG’s secondary public offering of approximately $872 million of Corebridge common stock.
- Corebridge Financial in AIG’s $3.4 billion sale of Corebridge common stock to Nippon Life Insurance Company.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in its offering of $450 million aggregate principal amount of 6.500% senior notes due 2029.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $1 billion secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $936 million secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $791 million secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial in AIG’s secondary public offering of approximately $712 million of Corebridge common stock.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in an $817 million secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial in AIG’s secondary public offering of 50 million shares of Corebridge Financial common stock.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a $667 million secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- Corebridge Financial, a majority owned subsidiary of American International Group, in its offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 6.050% senior notes due 2033.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in its offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of 7.950% senior notes due 2028.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a $536 million secondary public offering of Core & Main class A common stock and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial in AIG’s secondary public offering of 74.75 million shares of Corebridge Financial common stock at $16.25 per share.
- 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.
- agilon health and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the $2 billion secondary offering and repurchase of shares of agilon health common stock.
- Core & Main and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a $443 million secondary public offering and concurrent purchase and redemption of Core & Main class A common stock and partnership interests of Core & Main Holdings, LP.
- American International Group and Corebridge Financial, a majority-owned subsidiary of American International Group, in the initial public offering of Corebridge Financial.
- Corebridge Financial, a majority-owned subsidiary of American International Group, in its offering of $1.0 billion of 6.875% Fixed-to-Fixed Reset Rate Junior Subordinated Notes offering due 2052.
- Corebridge Financial, a majority-owned subsidiary of American International Group, in its $6.5 billion offering of senior unsecured notes in relation to the separation of American International Group’s Life & Retirement business. At the time of announcement, this transaction was reported to be the largest-ever debt offering by an insurance company.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in its offering of $550 million aggregate principal amount of 3.750% notes due 2027.
- Core & Main, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and a leading specialized distributor of water, wastewater, storm drainage and fire protection products, and related services, and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a $520 million secondary public offering of Core & Main class A common stock.
- agilon health and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the $587 million secondary offering of agilon health common stock.
- Core & Main, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $803 million initial public offering.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in its offering of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.750% notes due 2027.
- The underwriters in the $500 million public offering of depository shares by RenaissanceRe.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Solenis in the financing aspects of the sale of Solenis to Platinum Equity at an implied enterprise value of $5.25 billion.
- agilon health in its $1.2 billion initial public offering.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in the offer and sale of $500 million aggregate principal amount of 3.950% notes due 2026.
- JetBlue Airways Corporation in its offering and sale of 41,975,000 shares of common stock.
- JetBlue in its $808 million 2020-1 EETC offering and $116 million 2019-1B EETC offering.
- HarbourVest Partners as lead buyer in a GP-led tender for LP interests in Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund and a related commitment to Heritage Healthcare Innovation Fund III.
- Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Industries in their $1.17 billion inaugural EETC offering.
- Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as lead underwriters, in RenaissanceRe’s $1.1 billion offering of common stock.
- Core & Main LP, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $250 million tack-on offering of senior unsecured notes.
- Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A. in a 144A/Reg S offering of $500 million of its 4.875% senior unsecured notes due 2030.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in the placement of $215 million of senior unsecured notes.
- Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A. in a tender offer to purchase for cash its senior notes due 2022.
- Morgan Stanley in the secondary offering and sale of 1,739,071 shares of RenaissanceRe Holdings. common stock by Tokio Marine Holdings.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Core & Main in the offer and sale of $300 million of 8.625%/9.375% Senior PIK Toggle Notes due 2024 to fund a distribution to the holders of partnership units in Core & Main as part of a dividend recapitalization transaction.
- Fiduciary Trust Company in its private placement of preferred stock and subordinated debt.
- 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.
- Citigroup, BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities as lead underwriters in the $400 million offering of 3.600% senior notes due 2029 issued by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
- BofA Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS Investment Bank and Wells Fargo Securities as lead underwriters in the offering of 10 million depositary shares, each representing a 1/1,000th interest in a share of 5.750% preference shares, issued by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and TRANZACT in the $1.3 billion sale of TRANZACT to Willis Towers Watson.
- Antares Holdings LP, a leading provider of lending solutions to private equity sponsor-backed middle-market companies, in the placement of $280 million of senior unsecured notes.
- Ply Gem and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing aspects of Ply Gem’s $5.5 billion stock-for-stock combination with NCI Building Systems.
- AXA Equitable Holdings in the offer and sale of $862.5 million of mandatorily exchangeable securities.
- AXA and AXA Equitable Holdings on the initial public offering of AXA Equitable Holdings on the New York Stock Exchange for approximately $4 billion, and AXA Equitable Holdings in its offering and sale of $3.8 billion of senior notes.
- Atkore International, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $259 million secondary offering of common stock.
- Capital International in the IPO of BK Brasil Operação e Assessoria a Restaurantes SA, which holds the Burger King master franchise in Brazil.
- Barclays Capital as underwriter for RenaissanceRe's 2017 SEC-registered notes offering.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing aspects of its acquisition of a majority interest in American Greetings.
- American International Group in its $5.56 billion acquisition of Validus Group, a Bermuda-based, NYSE-listed, (re)insurance company.
- Brand Industrial Services (formerly Brand Energy & Infrastructure Services), a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $300 million tack-on offering of senior unsecured notes.
- International Paper in the $1.8 billion combination of its North America Consumer Packaging business with Graphic Packaging.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and HD Supply Waterworks in a $500 million offering of senior unsecured notes in connection with CD&R’s acquisition of HD Supply’s Waterworks Division, the largest distributor of waterworks products in the United States.
- Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $700 million offering of senior unsecured notes in connection with the combination of Brand Energy and Safway Group.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $2.5 billion acquisition of HD Supply’s Waterworks Division, the largest distributor of waterworks products in the United States.
- High Ridge Brands, a leading personal care consumer products company and a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $250 million offering of 8.875% senior notes due 2025.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services in the merger of Brand Energy and Safway Group, forming the leading global industrial service business with over $5 billion in revenue.
- Atkore International, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in its $192 million initial public offering and in secondary offerings totaling more than $400 million.
- Globo in an offering of $200 million of senior secured exchangeable notes of Pontis IV mandatorily exchangeable for 5.125% senior notes due 2025 of Globo.
- High Ridge Brands, a leading personal care consumer products company and a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company, in the financing aspects of its acquisition of Dr. Fresh.
- Activision Blizzard in the financing aspects of its $5.9 billion acquisition of King Digital.
- Discovery, Inc. in its $195 million investment in Lions Gate Entertainment.
- Westfield in the transfer of Westfield Carlsbad, a 1.1 million-square-foot super regional enclosed mall located in Carlsbad, CA, to Rouse Properties.
- American Seafoods, the largest harvester of wild-caught fish for human consumption in the United States, in capital markets matters relating to its completed deleveraging recapitalization.
- Globo in an offering of $325 million of senior secured exchangeable notes of Pontis III mandatorily exchangeable for 4.843% senior notes due 2025 of Globo.
- Standard General as selling stockholder of Media General in a $122 million secondary offering of voting common stock.
- SVB Financial Group in bank regulatory matters related to its $350 million offering of 3.5% senior notes due 2025.
- Nexstim Plc in U.S. law aspects of its initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq First North Finland and Sweden as well as ongoing U.S. securities matters.
- Citizens Financial in structuring its corporate governance charters, policies and frameworks to comply with bank regulatory and listed company governance requirements in preparation for its $3.4 billion initial public offering.
- Standard General in securities law matters related to various investments, including its acquisition of RadioShack’s asset-based credit facility and its investment in clothing manufacturer and distributor American Apparel.
- TPG and Coors Family Trusts as selling shareholders in the $456 million secondary offering of common stock by Graphic Packaging.
- Former Shareholders of New Young Broadcasting in the $65 million secondary offering by Media General.
- Warner Music Group in its offering of $275 million of senior secured notes and $660 million of senior notes.
- American Airlines in various offerings of enhanced equipment trust certificates (series A, B and C), totaling $2.2 billion.
- American Airlines in its tender offers to purchase for cash various series of its pass-through certificates and secured notes due 2016.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in a senior-notes offering to finance the acquisitions of Brand Energy and Harsco Infrastructure in a combined transaction valued at $2.5 billion.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Atkore International in Atkore’s refinancing of existing bond debt and simultaneous equity repurchase by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
- J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as placement agent for an offering of senior notes secured by a pledge of an installment note supported by an irrevocable letter of credit and other assets of the underlying issuer.
- TPG, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and other investment funds as selling stockholders in a series of secondary block trades, including simultaneous issuer stock repurchases.
- New Young Broadcasting in its merger with Media General to combine the two local broadcast television and digital media companies as well as the former shareholders of New Young Broadcasting in secondary registered offerings of shares of Media General.
- Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in the financing aspects of its $1.1 billion acquisition of a majority ownership stake in Wilsonart International Holdings, the decorative surfaces unit of Illinois Tool Works.
- Providence Equity Partners in the going private acquisition of SRA International, a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to U.S. government organizations, and the related high-yield note offering.
- Globo in a 144A/Reg S offering of $300 million 4.875% senior notes due 2022 and 144A/Reg S offering of $200 million of senior secured exchangeable notes of Pontis II Ltd. mandatorily exchangeable for $200 million 5.307%/7.25% step-up senior notes due 2022 of Globo.
- iPayment in its SEC reporting and securities law compliance matters.
- Globo Comunicação e Participações S.A. in its refinancing of $325 million of perpetual notes.
Education
- Columbia Law School, 1996, J.D.
- Tulane University, 1992, B.A.
Languages
- Dutch
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Spanish