Liability Management and Strategic Capital Solutions

Weil’s Liability Management and Strategic Capital Solutions practice offers expert, creative advice to companies, sponsors, creditors, and investors managing complex capital structure issues where conventional financing options fall short. Our team works closely with clients to address debt maturities, liquidity challenges, and other pressing financial needs through innovative, tailored solutions that provide cost-efficient alternatives to traditional restructuring. Our multi-disciplinary teams have deep expertise in constructing custom liability management structures and bespoke capital solutions, including drop-downs, up-tiers, double-dips, exchange and tender offers, amend and extends, preferred equity issuances, and other strategic capital transactions.

Notable Representations, Key Contacts

Weil is a leader in Liability Management and other Strategic Capital Solutions, consistently at the forefront of designing the highest-profile and most novel transaction structures in industry-defining deals. We are experts in leveraged finance, high yield debt, direct lending, preferred equity and other bespoke financial instruments, liability management, and restructuring.  Corporations, sponsors and credit investors come to us for innovative, tailored solutions in the most difficult situations.  Weil’s vast experience representing financial stakeholders across the spectrum, and up-and-down the capital stack, positions us to navigate complex constituency dynamics and build consensus for value-maximizing transactions.  Our multi-disciplinary team is unmatched in its ability to analyze complex situations, advise the board of directors and management of their options, strategic advantages, risks, and duties, and develop and execute liability management and strategic capital transactions in the most challenging circumstances.

We specialize in assisting clients to plan ahead of liability management or strategic capital transactions, ensuring sound governance practices and early stakeholder engagement with respect to company-side actors. With each transaction we craft a comprehensive litigation strategy and are prepared to take decisive action, whether to safeguard the transaction’s success or to defend the transaction against challenges or disruptions.  These skills also uniquely position us to act for creditors – whether in the existing deal or opportunistically looking at the credit – to design creative solutions and collaborate thoughtfully and efficiently with the company’s advisors.

Our accomplished attorneys have led many of the most complex and high profile liability management exercises, including:

AMC

Envision Healthcare Corporation

J.Crew Holdings

A lender in connection with a $2.5 billion new money SPV financing

Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC

SoftBank Group

American Securities

Doncasters Group Limited

An ad hoc group of first lien lenders to Covis Pharma

An ad hoc committee of secured lenders to Onyx Centersource

An ad hoc group of lenders to Cazoo Group

AIG and Prudential

Our firm is the trusted choice for companies and investors seeking effective liability management solutions and structuring of innovative debt and equity capital instruments. Our dedicated, multi-disciplinary team brings to bear vast experience in finance, securities, tax, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring and litigation to provide bespoke, nontraditional strategies that empower clients to confidently address their financial challenges. Weil is truly a one-stop shop for these types of transactions with devoted teams of collaborative professionals.

Key Contacts

Justin Lee

Justin D. Lee

Partner

New York

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