Biography
Kaitlin Bond is an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice and is based in New York. Kaitlin participates in advising borrowers, private equity sponsors, banks and other financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, middle market and large cap financings, cross-border and domestic acquisition financings, and debt restructuring transactions.
Kaitlin has been part of the teams advising:
- Advent International Corporation in multiple senior secured term loan and revolving credit facilities for Nielsen Consumer LLC (d/b/a NielsenIQ)
- American Securities and its portfolio companies in transactions involving Chromaflo Technologies Corporation, Paragon Medical Inc. and RealManage, LLC
- Subsidiaries of Black Knight, Inc. in various senior secured credit facilities and refinancing facilities and amendments thereto
- Cornell Capital and its portfolio companies in transactions involving kdc/one Development Corporation, Inc., Swallowfield plc and Zobele Holding S.p.A
- Dave & Buster’s, Inc. in $500 million senior secured facilities
- F&G Annuities & Life, Inc. in a $750 million unsecured revolving facility
- Fidelity National Financial, Inc. in an amendment to its $800 million revolving facility to extend the maturities of its loans and commitments thereunder
- Genstar Capital:
- together with TA Associates, the acquisition of Orion Advisor Solutions and the simultaneous acquisition of Brinker Capital, and the related $1.1 billion first and second lien facilities to finance their acquisitions;
- first and second lien credit facilities and investment in preferred equity to finance its acquisition of Brook & Whittle Ltd. (B&W) and to refinance existing B&W indebtedness; and
- and its portfolio company Orion Advisor Solutions in an incremental senior secured term loan and revolving facility
- Goldman Sachs and certain other initial purchasers of $770 million second lien floating rate notes of Sotera Health LLC (a portfolio company of Warburg Pincus) to refinance existing indebtedness and $100 million of first lien floating rate notes to finance a tuck-in acquisition
- Healogics, Inc. (a portfolio company of Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Partners Group and Northwestern Mutual) in senior secured term and revolving restructuring facilities to refinance existing indebtedness
- Lee Equity Partners in senior secured multicurrency facilities to finance its investment in McLarens
- 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
- RentPath, Inc. in a $74 million senior secured debtor-in-possession term facility to finance business operations during its chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Snow Phipps Group (n/k/a TruArc Partners) and its portfolio companies in transactions involving FeraDyne Outdoors, LLC
- Thrasio, Inc. (a company in which Advent International has a substantial minority investment) in $650 million incremental facilities, comprised of a $325 million funded term loan and a $325 million delayed draw term loan facility
- Thryv Holdings, Inc. in $875 million senior secured term and ABL revolving facilities to finance its acquisition of Sensis Pty Ltd. and to extend and refinance existing commitments and outstanding indebtedness
- Trebia Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by affiliates of Trasimene Capital Management and Bridgeport Partners, in $450 million senior secured revolving and term facilities to finance its $1.4 billion business combination with System1, LLC and Protected.net Group Limited (together with Trebia n/k/a System1) and to refinance existing indebtedness
Kaitlin received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she was an Articles Editor for the Brooklyn Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, and her B.A. from Marist College.