Biography
Katie Prior is an associate in Weil’s Banking & Finance practice and is based in Dallas. Katie participates in advising borrowers and leading private equity sponsors in a variety of financing transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, middle market and large cap financings, cross-border and domestic acquisition financings and debt restructuring transactions.
Katie has been part of the teams advising:
- ATI Physical Therapy Inc. (a publicly traded company backed by Advent International) in $550 million senior secured revolving and term facilities of its subsidiary ATI Holdings Acquisition, Inc. to refinance its existing indebtedness.
- Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet Holdings, Inc., public company backed by an investor consortium led by THL Partners, Cannae Holdings, Black Knight and CC Capital) in a $460 million incremental secured term facility to redeem in full certain of its senior first lien notes
- Evergreen (a portfolio company of The Sterling Group) in $41 million amended and restated senior secured notes purchase agreements to finance growth and maintenance projects and an incremental amendment, increasing to $30 million the amount of its existing senior secured revolving facility
- Infostretch Corporation (a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs Asset Management) in secured revolving and term facilities to finance its acquisition of Apexon
Katie joined Weil as a summer associate in 2020. Prior to joining Weil, she served as a law clerk for United States Senator John Cornyn on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Katie received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an Article Selection Committee Member and Senior Editor of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Texas A&M University, where she made the Dean’s List.