King & Spalding LLP handles both private credit lending, along with traditional bank lending, as well as borrower-side financing. At practice head level, the team is jointly led by New York-based Todd Holleman who is the name for private credit lending and special situation investing; Amy Peters who is experienced at handling credit facilities related to leveraged acquisitions, recapitalizations and loan workouts from the Chicago office; Carolyn Alford who forms part of the Atlanta offering, regularly handling large term loans and revolving facilities; and Jennifer Daly in New York acts a lead counsel for private credit lenders, especially in the context of rescue financing and distressed lending.
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Key clients
- Evolent Health LLC
- Mammoth Holdings, LLC
- Tenex Capital Management
- Trive Capital Management
- Vericel Corporation
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Blackstone Credit
- Blue Torch Capital
- Capital One
- Cerberus
- Churchill Asset Management
- Citizens Bank
- Crescent Capital Group LP
- Golub Capital Markets LLC
- GSO Capital Partners, LP
- HPS Investment Partners, LLC
- KKR Credit Advisors
- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank
- M&T Bank
- Mizuho Bank
- Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC
- New Mountain Capital
- One Investment Management
- Paceline Equity Partners
- Platte River Equity
- RBC Capital Markets, LLC
- Regions Bank
- Sound Point Capital
- Tree Line Capital Partners
- Truist Bank
- Varagon Capital Partners Agent, LLC
- Webster Bank, National Association
- Wells Fargo
- Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC
- Wilmington Trust
Work highlights
- Represented Vericel Corporation as borrower of an up to $150m senior secured revolving credit facility from JPMorgan Chase Bank and others.
- Advised Tenex Capital Management and one of its portfolio companies, Hub Pen Company, LLC, on obtaining (i) a first lien secured credit facility consisting of a $165m term loan and a $20m revolver facility.
- Assisted Mammoth Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Red Dog Equity, with obtaining a $550m senior secured credit facility agented by Bank of Montreal.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Todd T. Holleman, Amy Peters, Carolyn Z. Alford, Jennifer E. Daly