Experience

• • Warner Bros. Discovery in its review of strategic alternatives to maximize shareholder value, as the company continues to advance its previously announced separation of Warner Bros. and Discovery Global.
  • Warner Music Group in its joint venture with Bain Capital to purchase up to $1.2 billion of legendary music catalogs across both recorded music and music publishing.
  • Warner Bros. Discovery in separating the company into two publicly traded companies: Streaming & Studios and Global Networks.
  • Guggenheim Securities, as financial advisor to atai Life Sciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, in its strategic merger with Beckley Psytech, a private clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company.
  • J.P. Morgan Securities, as financial advisor to Bridge Investment Group, in the approximately $1.5 billion sale of Bridge Investment Group to Apollo.
  • Verizon in the financing aspects of its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier, the largest pure-play fiber internet provider in the U.S.
  • Wilsonart, a Clayton, Dubilier & Rice portfolio company and engineered surfaces company, in its $1.8 billion refinancing consisting of a $1.1 billion Senior Secured Term Loan Facility, $500 million senior notes offering and $250 million Senior Secured Revolving Facility.
  • Hawaiian Airlines in its exchange offer of $1.2 billion aggregate principal amount of 5.750% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 for $985 million aggregate principal amount of 11.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2029 and cash and related consent solicitation, which closed on July 26, 2024.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and its indirect subsidiary, Fortress Intermediate 3, in $3 billion of financing for Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of Presidio.
  • Windstream Holdings, an Elliott portfolio company and a privately held fiber and cloud based communications provider, in its merger with publicly held Uniti Group.
  • Ariel Emanuel, CEO of Endeavor, in Endeavor’s $13 billion take-private sale to Silver Lake.
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and its indirect subsidiary Fiesta Purchaser, in $2 billion of financing of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice’s acquisition of Shearer’s Foods.