Marcela Barba

Equity Offerings

• Sponsor client in its preferred stock investment in a financial services company
• Ferguson Plc, previously a Jersey public company, in establishing a Delaware domiciled corporate structure
• United States Steel Corporation in its approximately $700 million common equity offering*

Debt Offerings

• Ares Management Corporation in its inaugural registered offering of $500 million senior unsecured notes
• Initial purchasers in facilitating a $6.5 billion senior secured notes offering by an airline company*
• Underwriters and initial purchasers in facilitating approximately $3.5 billion convertible note, common equity and secured note capital raise by a transportation company*

Acquisition Financings

• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in its $850 million offering of senior secured notes in connection with its merger of equals with Cedar Fair L.P.
• Multinational banks in their $2.2 billion loan financing for the acquisition of Tigo Guatemala by Millicom International*

Liability Management and Restructuring Transactions

• Thrasio Holdings, Inc. and its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 restructuring of over $3 billion of funded debt and preferred stock obligations
• Dealer managers in facilitating an approximately $6 billion exchange offer and consent solicitation by YPF S.A.*

SEC Compliance, Disclosure and Governance Advice

• Public companies with various SEC periodic filing requirements
• Private equity sponsors with various SEC compliance matters

*Prior to joining Kirkland