Michael Stein

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• The Home Depot, Inc. in its $2 billion notes offering, consisting of (i) $500 million notes due 2028, (ii) $500 million notes due 2030, and (iii) $1 billion notes due 2035, to repay commercial paper to finance Home Depot's acquisition of GMS Inc.
• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in its $1 billion senior notes offering and concurrent redemption of its outstanding senior notes due 2027.
• AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc., as issuer, in connection with several (i) at-the-market and private offerings raising over $2.0 billion in aggregate equity proceeds, (ii) first and second lien note issuances raising over $4.1 billion in aggregate proceeds and (iii) various other liability management transactions.
• TPG Inc. in its $1.1 billion initial public offering and multiple secondary offerings.
• TPG Inc. in various debt offerings, including its (i) $600 million senior notes due 2034, (ii) $500 million senior notes due 2031, (iii) $500 million senior notes due 2036 and (iv) $400 million junior subordinated notes due 2064.
• Jefferies and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company, as lead managing bookrunners, in the $173 million initial public offering of Jefferson Capital, Inc. and $235.75 million follow-on offering of and a concurrent issuer share repurchase.
• An Investor in an offering of senior secured notes due 2049 by Beignet Investor LLC (a portfolio company of Blue Owl Capital Inc.) to fund construction of the Hyperion data center, a joint venture between Meta and Blue Owl.
• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. V in its $287.5 million initial public offering of Class A ordinary shares.
• Unigel Participações S.A. in its cross-border restructuring of over $800 million of indebtedness, resulting in new money proceeds to Unigel of $100 million and the issuance of first lien, second lien and unsecured notes.
• Goldman Sachs in a $6.8 billion bridge financing commitment to support the $6.4 billion acquisition by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc.
• Goldman Sachs, as agent, in $9 billion bridge and term loan facilities to support the $10.9 billion acquisition by Conagra Brands, Inc. of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
• Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley in a $5 billion bridge financing commitment to support the $6 billion merger of CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and Vectren Corporation.
• Goldman Sachs in a $9 billion bridge facility to support the spin-off by Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. to its shareholders of a new “Fox,” an entity comprising highly-rated news, sports and broadcast businesses, as part of a series of transactions that also included the combination of the rest of the Twenty-First Century Fox businesses with The Walt Disney Company.
• Dun & Bradstreet in its $7.7 billion sale to Clearlake Capital Group.
• CPP Investments in its $1 billion investment in AlphaGen.
• Diversified Healthcare Trust in a $941 million offering of zero coupon senior secured notes due 2026.
• Cedar Fair, L.P., in consent solicitations to certain amendments to four indentures in connection with its pending $8 billion merger of equals with Six Flags Entertainment Corporation.
• WASH Multifamily Laundry Systems, LLC (a portfolio company of EQT Partners) in its sale to Northleaf Capital Partners and AVALT.
• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in a new incremental $500 million senior secured term loan facility.
• Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. in its $460 million senior notes offering and redemption of certain other senior notes.
• Citi, J.P. Morgan, Wells Fargo and another financial institution, as representatives of the underwriters, in a $13 billion fixed and floating rate senior notes offering by Occidental Petroleum Corporation, to finance its acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
• Citi, another major financial institution and the other dealer managers in offers aggregating $11.9 billion to exchange certain newly issued senior unsecured debt securities of Occidental Petroleum Corporation for any and all of certain outstanding debt securities of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
• JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citi and another financial institution, as representatives of the initial purchasers, in an $8 billion 144A bond offering by an affiliate of Keurig Green Mountain (a portfolio company of JAB Holding Company) to finance the $23.1 billion merger of Keurig Green Mountain Inc. and Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.
• WPX Energy, Inc. in its $900 million senior unsecured notes offering to finance in part its acquisition of Felix Energy, LLC.
• Morgan Stanley, as representative of the initial purchasers, in a $360 million offering by Kohl’s Corporation of its senior secured notes due 2030.
• Tidewater Inc. in its $125 million tender offer for repurchase of senior secured notes and related consent solicitation.
• International counsel to Goldman and the other underwriters in the $515 million initial public offering of Oncoclinicas do Brasil Servicos Medicos SA (a portfolio company of Josephina Fundo de Investimento em Participações Multiestratégia (Josephina Fund for Investment in Multistrategy Participations)).
• Office Properties Income Trust, a REIT, in its $300 million 144A/Reg S offering of 9.000% senior secured notes due 2029.
• NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. (a portfolio company of Advent International) and certain selling stockholders in its $186 million initial public offering.
• Deutsche Bank, as representative of the initial purchasers, in a $650 million 144A bond offering and a $400 million senior unsecured 144A notes offering by OUTFRONT Media, Inc.
• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. IV, a SPAC sponsored by Fortress Investment Group, in its $600 million initial public offering.
• Fortress Capital Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Fortress Capital Acquisition Sponsor LLC, in its $400 million initial public offering.
• Jack Creek Investment Corp., a SPAC sponsored by KSH Capital, in its $345 million initial public offering.
• Fortress Investment Group, on behalf of certain affiliated selling shareholders, in a $242 million secondary offering of MP Materials Corp.
• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. III, a SPAC sponsored by Fortress Investment Group, in its $230 million initial public offering.
• Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. in its $500 million offering of investment grade, senior unsecured notes.
• Fortress Value Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Fortress Investment Group, in its $345 million initial public offering.
• Fortress Investment Group LLC in the $345 million initial public offering of Mosaic Acquisition Corp., a SPAC co-sponsored by Fortress.
• Citi, as administrative agent, and Citi and another financial institution, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in $21.8 billion bridge and term loan facilities and a $5 billion revolving working capital facility to support the $55 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
• Federal Street Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by Thomas H. Lee Partners, in its $460 million initial public offering.
• Deutsche Bank Securities, as underwriter in the $200 million initial public offering of RMG Acquisition Corp. 

Michael received his J.D. from Boston University Law and his B.A. from George Washington University.