Leveraged Finance
Weil's leveraged finance team has extensive experience with a wide variety of leveraged loans and high yield debt offerings. With dedicated teams located in many of the world's key financial centers, we can service virtually any aspect of a leveraged finance transaction on a global basis.
We regularly advise financial institutions, private equity sponsors, and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide variety of financing matters, from acquisition and recapitalization transactions, syndicated lending, and bridge financings to high-yield debt offerings, traditional private placements, and hybrid proprietary products.
We work closely with lawyers from our global M&A and Private Equity practices to advise clients on all facets of acquisition and other event-driven financing transactions. Our team also collaborates with our bankruptcy and restructuring practice on debt restructurings and debtor-in-possession and exit financings, as well as to analyze insolvency and collateral risks on new money transactions.
Selected Representations
Asurion, LLC
- Asurion, LLC in $1.25 billion senior secured term loan facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
- Asurion LLC in $1.2 billion first lien term facilities to refinance existing indebtedness.
Avolon
Avolon TLB Borrower 1 LLC and Avolon TLB Borrower 1 S.à r.l in its $2.3 billion senior secured term loan facility to reprice existing indebtedness.
Cedar Fair, L.P.
Cedar Fair, L.P. in a $1.3 billion senior secured term loan and revolving facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
ChampionX Corporation
ChampionX Corporation in $1.3 billion amended & restated senior secured revolving and term facilities, to refinance existing indebtedness.
Clarios Global LP
JPMorgan Chase, as administrative and collateral agent, lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in its upsized $2.75 billion senior secured term and revolving facility for Clarios Global LP (a subsidiary of Brookfield Business Partners) to repay existing indebtedness.
Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc.
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc., public company backed by an investor consortium led by THL Partners, Cannae Holdings, Black Knight and CC Capital) in its $3.9 billion incremental secured term loan and revolving facility.
Genstar Capital
Marcone Group, Inc. (a portfolio company of Genstar Capital) in its $1.3 billion term loan facility.
Howden Group Holdings Limited
- Howden Group Holdings Limited in a $4 billion incremental senior secured term loan facility for its subsidiaries Hyperion Refinance S.à r.l and HIG Finance 2 Limited to refinance and repay existing indebtedness.
- Howden Group Holdings Limited in its $1.07 billion senior secured term loan facility for its subsidiary Hyperion Refinance S.à r.l to refinance existing indebtedness.
J.C. Flowers & Co.
Jefferson Capital Systems, LLC (a portfolio company of J.C. Flowers & Co.) in an $825 million senior secured revolving facility.
OMERS Private Equity
- The Kenan Advantage Group, Inc. and Kenan Canada (portfolio companies of OMERS Private Equity) in its $1.6 billion incremental senior secured term loan and revolving facility to repay existing indebtedness
- The Kenan Advantage Group, Inc. and Kenan Canada GP (portfolio companies of OMERS Private Equity) in its $1.5 billion senior secured term loan facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
- Outcome Group Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a Paradigm) (a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity) in its $800 million senior secured term loan and revolving facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
- Outcomes Group Holdings, Inc. (d/b/a Paradigm) (a portfolio company of OMERS Private Equity) in its $698 million senior secured term loan facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- BroadStreet Partners, Inc. (a portfolio company of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) in its $3.6 billion senior secured term loan facility.
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and its portfolio company BroadStreet Partners, Inc. in a $3.5 billion syndicated debt refinancing of its existing term loan facilities. The refinancing also involved a revolver upsize.
- BroadStreet Partners, Inc. (a portfolio company of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) in a $1.4 billion incremental senior secured term and revolving facility to finance BroadStreet’s acquisition of Westland Insurance Group Ltd.
- BroadStreet Partners, Inc. (a portfolio company of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan) and Westland Insurance Group Ltd. in its approximately $932 million refinancing of a term loan and an $350 million incremental senior secured term loan facility.
Signet Group Limited
Signet Group Limited in its $1.2 billion senior secured asset based revolving facility.
United Talent Agency, LLC
United Talent Agency, LLC , an advisor to, and representative of, iconic talent across television, film, music, sports, digital media, publishing and podcasts, in its approximately $1.1 senior secured term loan and revolving facility to reprice existing indebtedness and finance the acquisition of Representatives Of Outstanding Footballers (ROOF).
WEX Inc.
- WEX Inc. in its $2.5 billion incremental senior secured term and revolving facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
- WEX Inc. in its $1.4 billion incremental senior secured term and revolving facility to refinance existing indebtedness.
- WEX Inc. in its $1.4 billion senior secured term loan facility to repay existing indebtedness.
WWEX Group
Goldman Sachs Bank USA and the other lead arrangers in connection with a repriced and upsized $1.540 billion term loan B for WWEX Group consisting of Worldwide Express, GlobalTranz and Unishippers (owned by a consortium including CVC Capital Partners, Providence Equity Partners and PSG and Ridgemont Equity Partners) to pay down WWEX’s second lien term loan facility.