Maintaining a strong footing on the lender side, McDermott Will & Emery LLP‘s banking and finance practice offers expertise in leveraged finance, alternative lenders, high-yield financings and restructurings. The team is a popular choice among healthcare providers and investors in the healthcare sector. Jointly leading the practice is respected transactional advisor, Michael Boykins who routinely handles insurance industry financings and venture capital transactions; Stephanie McCann whose broad practice encompasses acquisition financings, recapitalizations and loan workouts; and Los Angeles-based Gary Rosenbaum who is a key name for matters relating to the healthcare, life sciences, technology, TMT and manufacturing sectors. All lawyers mentioned are based in Chicago, unless stated otherwise.      

Legal 500 Editorial commentary

Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Team has good experience in working with PE groups, as such no need to educate them on many things germane to our transactions. In addition, they have the full complement of legal specialists to deal with things such as tax, employment, ERISA, healthcare.’

  • ‘Josh Samis has significant experience working with a variety of lenders. As such, he has keen insights on 1) what he views as market and 2) what existing lender has allowed in other transactions. In addition, the debt deal team are extremely customer-focused and promptly respond to our questions. ’

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Key clients

  • A.M. Castle & Co.
  • Alter Domus (US) LLC
  • American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. (ABC)
  • Amulet Capital Partners
  • AUA Private Equity Partners
  • Cedars-Sinai Health System
  • Comvest Partners
  • Cresco Labs, LLC
  • Ewing Irrigation
  • Gemspring Capital Management, LLC
  • H.I.G. Capital
  • Hidden Harbor Capital Partners
  • HCI Equity Partners
  • JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
  • Linden Structured Capital Fund, LP
  • Lindsay Goldberg
  • Martis Capital
  • Mat Ishbia
  • MidCap Financial Services
  • Monroe Capital LLC
  • NationsBenefits Holdings, LLC
  • Nautic Partners, LLC
  • New Harbor Capital Management
  • NMS Capital Group
  • Oxford Finance LLC
  • PGX Holdings, Inc.
  • Premier Inc.
  • Pura Vida Investments, LLC
  • Revelstoke Capital Management LLC
  • Ridgemont Equity Partners
  • The Sterling Group
  • TriplePoint Capital LLC/ TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp
  • True West Capital Partners, LLC
  • TPG Growth
  • Voyager Interests
  • Waypoint Capital
  • Wellspring Capital Management LLC
  • Whitehorse Capital Management, LLC
  • WindRose Health Investors

Work highlights

  • Represented American Builders & Contractors Supply Co in the structuring, negotiation, documentation, and execution of an amendment to its senior secured asset-asset based credit facility with Bank of America, N.A as agent for the lenders.
  • Represented H.I.G. Capital in connection with the structuring, negotiation, documentation and execution of secured term, revolving and delayed draw term loans with Macquarie Capital Funding LLC and Stifel Bank & Trust.
  • Represented Lindsay Goldberg in connection with the structuring, negotiation, documentation and execution of a senior secured term and revolving loan with Monroe Capital and Kayne Anderson.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Michael Boykins, Stephanie McCann, Gary Rosenbaum

Other key lawyers

Josh Samis