October 13, 2025
Weil advised Florida Food Products, LLC (a portfolio company of Ardian and MidOcean Partners), the largest private equity owned natural ingredient supplier in the world, in $92 million of new first lien debt financing and a refinancing of more than $750 million of existing debt to extend maturities with support of 100% existing lenders.
The Weil deal team was led by Banking & Finance Co-Head Justin D. Lee, Banking & Finance partner Justina Chen and Restructuring partner Kelly DiBlasi. The deal team also included Banking & Finance associates Kaitlin Bond, Virginia Dwyer and Xiaoyu Huang (Not Yet Admitted in New York), Restructuring partner Chase Bentley and associates Alejandro Bascoy, Joshua Winograd and Ismail Buffins; Tax partner Jonathan Macke, counsel Adam Sternberg and associate Dylan Lionberger; Private Equity Co-Head Ramona Y. Nee, partners Gareth Clark and Emily Willey and associates Geoff Greenspoon, Ella Woodward, Reed Ruddick and Bea Asta; Structured Finance Head Frank Nocco, partner Jeffrey Dawidowicz and associate Will Richardson.