Our Finance Group helps clients navigate the business and legal complexities of novel and multidimensional debt financing transactions. We fully understand the challenges faced by borrowers, investors and lenders throughout a company’s lifecycle, from evolving techniques in acquisition finance to the tensions inherent in distressed situations. We are the firm of choice for the most innovative and complex financing matters, including bespoke structured financings and whole-business securitizations of novel assets and restructurings of multibillion-dollar companies.
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鶹Ƶ, Weiss Adds Leading Fund Finance Partner in New York
Flora Go has joined the firm in New York as a partner in the Finance Group and head of Fund Finance. Flora brings extensive experience representing asset managers and investment funds in complex fund-level leverage transactions.
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Apollo Invests in Sony Music Group
鶹Ƶ, Weiss advised Apollo on its $700 million capital solution to Sony Music Group, an affiliate of Sony Group Corporation, for investments in the music industry.
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Derivatives Partner Joins 鶹Ƶ, Weiss in New York
Kerri Durso has joined the firm as a partner in the Finance Group. Kerri's practice focuses on broad-based over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives and the negotiation of complex derivatives instruments across all major asset classes.
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KKR Acquires Marmic Fire & Safety
鶹Ƶ, Weiss advised funds managed by KKR on the financing aspects of their acquisition of Marmic Fire & Safety, a leading provider of regulation-mandated fire equipment inspection, testing and maintenance services, from HGGC.
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鶹Ƶ, Weiss Recognized With “Structured Finance and Securitization Deal of the Year” Award at IFLR’s Americas Awards
International Financial Law Review named 鶹Ƶ, Weiss’s work advising Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of a significant portion of the assets of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group the “Structured Finance and Securitization Deal of the Year” as part of its 2024 Americas Awards.
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Warburg Pincus Leads Investment in CData
鶹Ƶ, Weiss is advising Warburg Pincus on the financing for its approximately $350 million investment, with participation from Accel, in CData Software, the leading provider of data connectivity solutions.
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Symphony Wireless and Palistar Capital Complete Inaugural Securitization of U.S. Wireless Easements Assets
鶹Ƶ, Weiss advised Symphony Wireless, LLC, the dedicated cell site acquisition affiliate of alternative asset manager Palistar Capital LP and the exclusive manager of Palistar's portfolio of wireless easements assets throughout the U.S., in a $200 million securitization of Palistar’s easements portfolio.
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Manuel Frey and Andrew MacLachlan Publish U.S. Chapter in ICLG’s Derivatives 2024 Guide
Corporate partner Manuel Frey and associate Andrew MacLachlan co-wrote the “USA” chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) – Derivatives 2024, published by Global Legal Group Ltd., London.
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Charles Pesant to Discuss Whole Business Securitization at Structured Credit Investor Seminar
Corporate partner Charles Pesant will participate in a panel on whole business securitization as part of Structured Credit Investor’s 2024 Esoteric Asset-Backed Securities Seminar.
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General Atlantic Credit Finances Transcendia Recapitalization
鶹Ƶ, Weiss is advising General Atlantic Credit, General Atlantic’s dedicated credit investment platform, in its financing support for Transcendia Holdings, Inc.’s recapitalization transaction.
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Apollo Purchases $8 Billion in Credit Suisse Assets From UBS
鶹Ƶ, Weiss is advising Apollo Global Management and ATLAS SP Partners, L.P. in Apollo’s acquisition of $8 billion of senior secured financing facilities from UBS Group AG.
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Stone Point Capital Leads Acquisition of Remaining Stake in Truist Insurance in $15.5 Billion Deal
鶹Ƶ, Weiss is serving as debt financing counsel to Stone Point Capital as a lead investor in the all-cash acquisition of the remaining stake in Truist Insurance Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Truist and the nation’s fifth-largest insurance brokerage, in a deal valuing the company at $15.5 billion.
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Tom de la Bastide, David Tarr and Margot Wagner Publish 2024 Update on Covenant-Lite Loans in Practical Law
Corporate partners Tom de la Bastide and David Tarr and practice management counsel Margot Wagner co-authored an article in Practical Law examining the typical features of covenant-lite loans, a borrower-friendly type of loan facility found in certain leveraged financings.
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Bob Zochowski Named a 2023 Law360 MVP in Structured Finance
Corporate partner Bob Zochowski was honored as a Law360 2023 MVP in the Structured Finance category.
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Brookfield to Acquire Stake in Primary Wave in $2 Billion Deal
鶹Ƶ, Weiss is advising Brookfield Asset Management Inc. in its acquisition of a significant minority stake in Primary Wave Music as part of a new strategic partnership valued at over $2 billion.
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