Biography
Katharine Pacoli is an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice and is based in New York. Katharine 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.
Katharine has been part of the teams advising:
- Air Methods Corporation, as issuer, in a $185 million rights offering to holders of certain of its secured lenders in connection with Air Methods' emergence from Chapter 11
- Centerbridge Partners, L.P. and its portfolio company KIK Consumer Products Inc. in a 144A / Reg S offering of $550 million senior secured notes and $450 million senior notes
- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. in its $250 million senior secured term loan facility and its $100 million senior secured revolving facility
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in a $2.5 billion senior unsecured multicurrency revolving credit facility to replace, and increase commitments under, its existing facility
- Goldman Sachs, as representative of the initial purchasers, in a $555 million senior secured notes offering by Dye & Durham Corporation
- JPMorgan Chase, as administrative and collateral agent, lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in its $2.7 billion senior secured term loan facility for Clarios Global LP as well as the Clarios’ upsized $750 million offering of 6.750% senior secured notes
- 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
- KKR Credit Advisors LLC, as lender, in a superpriority debtor-in-possession term loan facility for Accuride Corporation (a portfolio company of Crestview Partners)
- Lasership, Inc. (a portfolio company of American Securities) in a senior secured term loan and revolving facility
- The lead arrangers in Ford Motor Company's historic $18.5 billion secured financing transaction
Katharine received her J.D. from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and her Honors B.M.Sc., with distinction, from Western University.