Banking & Finance
Notable Representations, Key Contacts
- Leveraged acquisition and recapitalization transactions
- Investment grade lending and acquisition finance
- Syndicated lending
- Cash flow lending
- Asset-based lending
- Loan restructurings
- Debtor-in-possession financings
- Exit financings
We work in tandem with lawyers from our global M&A and Private Equity practices to advise clients on all facets of acquisition and other event-driven financings. We also work closely with our preeminent bankruptcy & restructuring practice on debt restructurings and debtor-in-possession and exit financings, as well as to analyze insolvency and collateral risks on new money transactions.
Private Equity Finance
Institutional Finance
Leveraged Finance
Weil's leveraged finance team routinely represents lenders, underwriters, issuers and borrowers on their most sophisticated, complex leveraged loans and high yield bond offerings.
Investment Grade Finance
In particular, we frequently utilize the combined strength of our New York and London platforms to advise corporate borrowers and financial institutions on cross-border transactions.
Selected Representations
Advent International/Nuplex Industries
AMC Entertainment
- AMC Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Dalian Wanda Group Co.) in $860 million incremental and bridge facilities to finance in part its $1.1 billion acquisition of Carmike Cinemas, Inc. which created the largest chain of movie theatres in the United States and the world.
- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (a subsidiary of Dalian Wanda Group Co.) in $1.3 billion incremental and bridge facilities to finance in part its approximately $1.2 billion acquisition of Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group Limited, the owner and operator of multiplex cinemas in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, Portugal and Spain.
- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (a subsidiary of Dalian Wanda Group Co.) in an amendment and restatement of its senior secured term facility to incrementally increase commitments by $500 million to finance in part its approximately £921 million acquisition of Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group Limited, and its $1.2 billion acquisition of Carmike Cinemas, Inc.
- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. (a subsidiary of Dalian Wanda Group Co.) in $675 million incremental term loan and $325 million bridge facility commitments to provide financing related to its $964 million acquisition of Nordic Cinema Group Holding AB.
Black Knight Financial Services
Centerbridge Partners/KIK Custom Products
Centerbridge Partners/Senvion
Citi/Becton, Dickinson and Company
Citi/Occidental Petroleum Corporation
CVC Capital Partners/Linxens France
Focus Financial Partners
Focus Financial Partners, LLC (at the time a portfolio company of Centerbridge Partners, Summit Partners and Polaris Partners), a partnership of independent wealth management firms and advisors, in $1.2 billion senior secured facilities to finance its approximately $2 billion acquisition by an investor group led by Stone Point Capital and KKR.
General Electric Company
- General Electric Company in its $19.8 billion unsecured term and revolving credit facilities to refinance existing indebtedness.
- General Electric Company in a $3 billion revolving facility for Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC.
- General Electric Company in financing matters related to its strategic plan to sell most of GE Capital’s assets.
Goldman Sachs/Amazon
Goldman Sachs/Becton, Dickinson and Company
- Citi, as sole lead arranger and sole lead bookrunner in a $15.7 billion committed bridge facility, and as lead arranger and bookrunner in $4.5 billion term and revolving working capital facilities, for Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a medical technology company, to support BD's $24 billion acquisition of C. R. Bard Inc., a medical equipment maker specializing in the manufacture of vascular, urology, oncology, and surgical specialty products.
Goldman Sachs/Conagra Brands
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners/Lam Research
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners in a $4.2 billion committed bridge facility to finance the proposed cash and stock acquisition by Lam Research Corporation, a supplier of wafer fabrication equipment and services to the semiconductor industry, of KLA-Tencor Corporation, a provider of process control and yield management solutions.
Great Plains Energy
Goldman Sachs in an $8 billion committed bridge facility to finance the approximately $15 billion cash and stock acquisition by Great Plains Energy Incorporated, a provider of electricity in the Midwest United States, of Westar Energy Inc., at the time the largest electric utility in Kansas.
H&R Block
HNA Group/Hilton
HNA Group Co. Ltd., a conglomerate focused on airport and travel services, transportation and logistics, in a senior secured term facility to finance in part its $6.5 billion acquisition of a 25% stake in Hilton Inc., Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. (collectively, f/k/a Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.) from affiliates of The Blackstone Group.
JAB Holding Company/Keurig Green Mountain
JPMorgan/Microsoft
JPMorgan/Panera Bread Company
Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation
Morgan Stanley/Goldman Sachs/XL Group
Morgan Stanley JPMorgan/Tyson Foods
Morgan Stanley Senior Funding/Harris Corporation
Morgan Stanley/Tyson Foods
OMERS Private Equity/The Kenan Advantage Group
RBC Capital Markets/Mizuho Bank, Ltd./Dominion Resources
The Estée Lauder Companies
WPX Energy
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Awards and Recognition, Firm News & Announcements, Latest Thinking
Awards and Recognition
- Weil Named Banking “Practice Group of the Year” Award Brief — Law360 2018
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Banking & Finance: Nationwide Award Brief — Chambers USA 2020
- Weil Named a "Leading" Firm for Bank Lending Award Brief — Legal 500 US 2020
- Weil Named a “Leading” Firm for Banking and Finance in the U.S. Award Brief — IFLR1000 2021
- Weil Named a “Leading Firm” for Banking & Finance, Texas Award Brief — Chambers USA 2020
- Weil named a "Leading" Firm for Banking & Finance, Global-wide Award Brief — Chambers Global 2020
- Weil named a "Leading" Firm for Banking & Finance, United States Award Brief — Chambers Global 2020
- Weil named a “Leading” Firm for Banking & Finance: Lenders and Sponsors, UK Award Brief — Chambers Global 2020
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Odeon Group on Securing New Financing Deal Brief — February 24, 2021
- Weil Advises Advent-Backed ATI Physical Therapy in its $2.5B Business Combination with Fortress Value Acquisition Corp. II Deal Brief — February 22, 2021
- Weil Advised American Securities in its Acquisition of Beacon’s Interior Products Business Deal Brief — February 10, 2021
- Weil Advised GI Partners in its Acquisition of Vast Broadband Firm Announcement — February 01, 2021
- Vynessa Nemunaitis and Young Lee Named 2020 Rising Stars by Euromoney Firm Announcement — January 29, 2021
- Weil Advises Cardtronics in its Pending $2.5 Billion Sale to NCR Corporation Deal Brief — January 25, 2021
Latest Thinking
- The International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance 2019 Publication — Global Legal Group — By Roshelle A. Nagar — PDF — August 14, 2019
- Leveraged Lending Market Update: 2018 Year in Review and 2019 Outlook Alert — Banking & Finance — By Andrew J. Colao, Jacqueline Oveissi and Anna McEwen — PDF — February 01, 2019