Biography
Solomon Leung is an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice and is based in New York. Solomon 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.
Solomon has been part of the teams advising:
- Ardian in revolving and first and second lien term facilities to finance its acquisition of a majority stake in Florida Food Products, Inc. (FFP) and to refinance existing FFP indebtedness
- Blackbird Purchaser, Inc., a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, in a $1.01 billion unitranche credit facility
- Citi, as administrative agent and arranger, in a $2.75 billion amended and extended senior unsecured revolving facility for Becton, Dickinson and Company to increase the existing facility and extend its maturity
- Citi, as administrative agent, in an amended and extended $155 million asset-based senior secured revolving facility for Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc. (f/k/a Contura Energy, Inc.)
- Florida Food Products, Inc. (a portfolio company of Ardian and MidOcean Partners) in first and second lien incremental term facilities to finance its acquisition of Comax Manufacturing Corp.
- Genstar Capital in its acquisition of Arrowhead Engineered Products, Inc. and Arrowhead Engineered Products, Inc. in its acquisitions of Red Hawk, LLC and Western Power Sports, LLC
- Goldman Sachs, as representative of the initial purchasers, in a $555 million senior secured notes offering by Dye & Durham Corporation
- Goldman Sachs, as administrative agent, collateral agent, L/C issuer, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in a $350 million term loan facility and $77 million revolving credit facility for Dye & Durham Corporation
- Iron Mountain Incorporated in $2.5 billion amended and restated senior secured revolving and term facilities; in a $1.2 billion senior secured term loan facility; and in a $1.8 billion incremental senior secured term loan facility
- The Kroger Company in a $2.75 billion amended and extended unsecured revolving facility; in a $5 billion senior unsecured revolving facility; in a $4.75 billion senior unsecured term loan facility; and in a $10.5 billion offering of senior notes to finance a portion of the merger between The Kroger Co. and Albertsons Companies Inc.
- TPG in senior secured facilities to finance its acquisitions of Keter Environmental Services Inc. and DAAT Credit Co., LLC
- White Oak Commercial Finance, LLC (an affiliate of White Oak Global Advisors, LLC) in an extended and upsized $700 million ABL revolving facility primarily to refinance existing indebtedness and in an amended and extended $625 million ABL facility
Solomon received his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, James Kent Scholar and recipient of the Parker School Certificate for Achievement in International and Comparative Law. He received his B.Sc, magna cum laude, from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University, where he was a Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honorary.