Christopher Gleason is counsel in Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s Corporate Department and is resident in the firm’s Dallas office.
Mr. Gleason’s practice focuses primarily on finance transactions, including acquisition financing, investment grade lending, asset-based and leveraged lending, debt restructuring transactions and debtor-in-possession financings. He primarily represents private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers.
Recent Transactions
- Advent International Corporation in their acquisition of Serta Simmons Holdings
- BancTec, Inc. in their corporate credit facility refinancing
- Berkshire Partners in their acquisition of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd.
- Brazos Investment Partners, L.P. in their merger and combined refinancing of Ennis Paint, Inc. and Flint Trading, Inc.
- Centerbridge Partners, L.P. in their acquisition of Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants Group, Inc.
- EIG Management Company, LLC and Tailwater Capital LLC in the negotiation of a syndicated credit facility for BBTS Borrower LP (a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackBrush TexStar LP)
- EIG Management Company, LLC, as agent, in the restructuring of Tarpon Operating & Development, L.L.C.
- Generac Power Systems, Inc. in their corporate credit facility refinancing
- Hicks Sports Group in their financing and management of Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and Dallas Stars, L.P.
- Hunt Consolidated, Inc. in their corporate credit facility refinancing
- Kinder Morgan, Inc. in their acquisition of El Paso Corporation
- Lindsay Goldberg LLC in their refinancing of PL Propylene LLC
- Milacron LLC in their acquisition of Mold-Masters Luxembourg Holdings S.a.r.l
- Susser Holdings Corporation in their acquisition of Town & Country
- Texas Instruments Incorporated in their corporate credit facility refinancing
- Thomas H. Lee Partners in their acquisitions and subsequent refinancnings of Intermedix Corporation and Acosta, Inc.
- An investor group in the acquisition and disposition of the Tampa Bay Lightning
Mr. Gleason has also represented a number of companies in connection with their in and/or out of court restructuring, workout and related financing transactions including: Texas Rangers Baseball Partners; Simmons Company; Hawkeye Renewables LLC; Electrical Components International, Inc.; Brightstar Corp.; Panolam Industries International Incorporated; Isola USA Corp. and International Aluminum Corporation.
Representative corporate borrower transactions include: BancTec, Inc.; BlackBrush Texstar LP; Electrical Components International, Inc.; Hunt Consolidated, Inc.; Kinder Morgan, Inc.; Susser Holdings Corporation and Texas Instruments Incorporated.
Mr. Gleason was recognized as a Texas Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2010.