Mercedez Taitt-Harmon

Mercedez has been part of the teams advising:

• AltC Acquisition Corp., a SPAC sponsored by AltC Sponsor LLC (an affiliate of M. Klein and Company, LLC), in its $500 million initial public offering.
• AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. in several (i) at-the-market and private offerings raising over $1.5 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.
• Core Scientific in its issuance of $260 million in secured convertible notes, $150 million in senior secured notes, two tranches of warrants, a security representing entitlements to contingent payment obligations, a $55 million equity rights offering and relisting on Nasdaq Global Select Market, all in connection with its emergence from Chapter 11.
• Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc. (a public company backed by an investor consortium led by THL Partners, Cannae Holdings, Black Knight and CC Capital) in a $460 million senior unsecured 144A / Reg S notes offering by its subsidiary, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, to redeem in full certain of its senior first lien notes.
• First Light Acquisition Group, Inc., a SPAC sponsored indirectly by FLAG Sponsor Manager, LLC, in its $230 million initial public offering.
• J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley, as representatives of the underwriters, in the $998 million initial public offering of Fluence Energy, Inc. (a joint venture of Siemens AG and AES Energy Storage).
• Portillo’s, Inc. (a publicly traded company backed by Berkshire Partners) in (i) its $466 million initial public offering, (ii) its $190 million follow-on public offering, in a synthetic secondary transaction, to repurchase shares and purchase liability interests from existing holders, (iii) its $183.2 million block trade offering, in a synthetic secondary transaction, to repurchase shares and purchase liability interests from existing holders and (iv) its $179 million synthetic secondary offering of 8 million shares of its Class A common stock and partial exercise of its over-allotment option for an additional $13 million in proceeds
• Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its pending sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.
• Truist, Wells Fargo, and a leading financial institution, as representatives of the underwriters, in $500 million offering of senior notes by McCormick & Company, Inc.

Prior to joining Weil, Mercedez was a Corporate associate at another international law firm.

Mercedez received her J.D. from Cornell Law School, where she was a recipient of the CALI Award for Capital Markets and served as a Note Editor of the Cornell International Law Journal, and her B.S., cum laude, from St. John’s University.