Richard Ginsburg is a Banking & Finance partner and one of a very few US-trained, dual-qualified (admitted to practice in both the US and the UK) finance lawyers. He specializes in private equity acquisition and leveraged finance and relocated in 2008 to New York from the London office, where he had resided since 2000 and headed Weil’s London private equity finance group.
He has advised on a broad range of international corporate and banking transactions for private equity firms and corporate and banking clients in relation to acquisition financings, principal finance, securitizations, joint ventures and restructurings, including transactions in the manufacturing, technology and food sectors.
Richard has been involved in a number of large, high-profile international transactions, both private and public-to-private, with representative transactions including:
- Advent International in the $190 million senior secured financing for its acquisition of Bojangles Restaurants, Inc., the operator of the quick service chicken restaurants.
- Advent International in the £529.5 million senior and PIK financing for its acquisition of Lloyds TSB Registrars, the share registry operations of Lloyds TSB Bank plc.
- Advent International in the €510 million senior and second lien secured credit facilities for its acquisition of the oxo chemicals and derivatives business from Celanese Europe.
- American General Finance Corporation in the $3 billion senior secured financing of the loan receivables programs of American General's US loan business.
- American Securities LLC in the $610 million senior secured financing for its portfolio company, American Chemical Holdings Corporation and its subsidiaries.
- American Securities LLC in the $347 million senior secured financing in connection with the acquisitions of INX Inc. and BlueWater Communications Group LLC by Presidio IS Corp., a portfolio company of American Securities.
- General Motors Corporation in the $13.7 billion financing from the United States Treasury, along with other financings for GM including the $33.3 billion debtor-in-financing and exit financings in connection with GM's Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
- ICON Health & Fitness, the largest manufacturer and marketer of fitness equipment in the world, in its $275 million senior secured revolving credit and term loan facility and its $205 million senior secured notes due 2016.
- Montagu Private Equity in the €776.4 million and $71 million senior, second lien and mezzanine secured financing for its acquisition of the BSN Medical Management business from Smith & Nephew plc and Beiersdorf AG.
- Premier Foods plc in the £2.1 billion senior credit facilities to finance the public-to-private acquisition of RHM plc.
- Providence Equity Partners in the $295 million senior term loan and revolving credit financing for its acquisition of Virtual Radiologic Corporation (“vRad”) , a major provider of teleradiology services, and the subsequent acquisition by vRad of the Nighthawk radiology business.
- TI Automotive Limited, a world-wide manufacturer of automotive fluid storage and delivery systems, in the $100 million revolving credit and $550 million term loan facilities.
- Yildiz Holding A.S. in the $950 million senior secured financing for its acquisition of the Godiva Chocolates business from the Campbell Soup Company.
Richard has been recognized in Chambers Global as a UK Expert Based Abroad, and also in the US as a Foreign Expert, and has also been recognized in Chambers Global and Chambers UK for high-end acquisition finance and in Legal 500 for acquisition finance. He is also listed by Legal Business as a legal expert in banking and finance.
Richard's clients also benefit from his distinguished first career in business, as he spent over 15 years in private business prior to his career in law.
Richard graduated with high honors from Texas Tech University School of Law and also received his masters degree in business administration, with honors, from Texas Tech University. He earned a bachelors degree in business administration with honors from the University of Texas at Austin.