Pratik Ranjan Das

Since joining Kirkland, Pratik has represented:

Equity Offerings

• Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in connection with its $100 million preferred stock investment in Vinci Partners Investments Ltd. (NASDAQ: VINP)
• Goldman Sachs and Baird, in connection with Ranpak Holdings Corp.’s (NYSE: PACK) secondary offering of $105 million of Ranpak’s common stock
• OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: OSW) and Steiner Leisure Limited, a portfolio company of L Catterton, in connection with a secondary offering of $76.6 million of OneSpaWorld Holdings’ common shares
• Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH) and Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with over $1 billion of primary and secondary offerings of Option Care Health’s common stock
• Alight Inc. (NYSE: ALIT) and Blackstone in connection with a secondary offering of approximately $180 million of Alight Inc.’s common stock
• viagogo in connection with its issuance of $365 million of senior preferred stock

High Yield and Investment Grade Debt Offerings

• Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) in connection with approximately €1.2 billion of EUR-denominated senior notes offerings
• Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) in connection with approximately $1.2 billion of USD-denominated senior notes offering
• Builders FirstSource, Inc. (NYSE: BLDR), in connection with its $300 million add-on senior notes offering
• Staples, Inc. in connection with its $100 million add-on senior secured notes offering
• Clearlake Capital Partners in connection with a $400 million senior notes offering to finance Clearlake’s acquisition of PriSo Holdings Corporation (PrimeSource)
• Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) in connection with a four-tranche investment grade notes offering worth over $2 billion and including Eli Lilly’s inaugural “Sustainability Bonds” as well as the corresponding tender offer
• Imperial Dade, a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in connection with its $660 million senior notes offering
• Restaurant Brands International Inc. (Burger King) in connection with approximately $1.5 billion of senior secured notes offering
• Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion acquisition of CoreLogic, including CoreLogic’s $750 million senior secured notes offering

Liability Management Transactions

• WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE) and its subsidiaries in connection with a comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure through a series of transactions with an ad hoc group of noteholders representing more than 60% of the company’s public notes, a third-party investor and affiliates of SoftBank Group Corp., implemented through certain exchanges of $1.2 billion of WeWork’s existing unsecured notes for new debt and equity securities and the issuance of $675 million of new secured notes for cash
• Radiology Partners, Inc. and certain of its affiliates in connection with a series of liability management transactions, including (i) the replacement of its existing revolver due 2024 with a new revolver due 2028 (including a portion converted to a “first out” revolver), (ii) an uptier exchange by the lenders under its existing first lien term loans due 2025 for new first lien term loans due 2029 and a partial prepayment, (iii) an uptier exchange by the holders of its secured notes due 2025 for new first lien secured notes due 2029 and a partial prepayment, (iv) an uptier exchange by the holders of its unsecured notes due 2028 for new second lien secured notes due 2030, and (v) a new equity capital raise
• The Lycra Company and its subsidiaries in connection with a comprehensive debt refinancing, including a refinancing of its existing senior secured notes and associated transactions
• The Lycra Company and its subsidiaries in connection with a comprehensive settlement of its existing debt, including simultaneous consent solicitations in connection with substantial amendments to its existing euro- and dollar-denominated senior secured notes and associated transactions
• Wheel Pros and Clearlake Capital in connection with a comprehensive liability management transaction, including the exchange of approximately $272 million of Wheel Pros’ unsecured notes for new second lien notes and a corresponding covenant strip consent procedure

Tender and Exchange Offers

• Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE: M), in connection with a $220 million cash tender offer with respect to nine outstanding series of senior notes
• Staples, Inc. in connection with a comprehensive debt refinancing involving the issuance of $2.4 billion in new senior secured notes and an uptier exchange offer and simultaneous private exchange of approximately $950 million of its existing senior notes
• Anywhere Real Estate (NYSE: HOUS) in connection with an uptier exchange offer and simultaneous private exchange of approximately $800 million of its existing senior notes
• CFG Investments S.A.C. in connection with a tender offer to repurchase over $32 million of its first lien senior secured notes and second lien senior secured notes
  

Chapter 11 Proceedings

• WeWork Inc. and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in connection with the exchange of approximately $3 billion of WeWork’s funded debt for post-emergence equity and cash as well as associated corporate governance and securities matters
• Invitae Corporation certain of its affiliates in their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in connection with its go-forward sale process and corresponding paydown of approximately $1.5 billion in funded debt obligations
• Avaya Holdings Corp. and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in connection with corporate governance and securities matters
• Wheel Pros, LLC and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in connection with securities matters
  

Public Company Mergers, Reorganizations and Special Purpose Acquisition Company Transactions

• Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: FERG), formerly Ferguson plc, in connection with transactions to redomicile its ultimate parent company from the Bailiwick of Jersey to the United States
• Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWNT), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the technology and direct-to-consumer sectors, in its $300 million initial public offering
• Tailwind International Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWNI), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the technology and direct-to-consumer sectors in Europe, in its $300 million initial public offering
• Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: YAC), a special purpose acquisition company on its $3.2 billion business combination with SIGNA Sports United
• KORE Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KORE) on its $1 billion business combination with Cerberus Telecom Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.

SEC Compliance, Disclosure and Corporate Governance

• Builders FirstSource, Inc. (NYSE: BLDR)
• Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH)
• Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT)

Prior to joining Kirkland, Pratik was involved in the following matters:

Debt Capital Markets

• Advised the joint structuring advisors/lead arrangers on India's first issuance of listed debt securities by a real estate investment trust.
• Advised India's largest public sector bank on its dual tranche Rule 144A/Regulation S-compliant issuance of senior notes on the London Stock Exchange.
• Advised on the Regulation S-compliant listed debt offering by an Indian subsidiary of a Canadian asset management company.

Equity Capital Markets

• Advised the issuer and major selling shareholders on one of the first initial public offerings by a life insurance corporations in India.
• Advised on several initial public offerings and private placement of listed stock for companies in the real estate, infrastructure, healthcare and facilities management sectors in India.

Associate, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., Mumbai, India, 2017–2019