Yongjin Im, P.C.
Overview
Yongjin Im is a debt finance partner in the New York Office. His practice involves lender and borrower representations in a wide variety of debt financings, but concentrates on representing middle market private equity funds and their portfolio companies across a broad range of industries in LBO financings, second lien and subordinated loans, ABL facilities, restructurings and workouts.
Representative Private Equity Fund Clients
Sentinel Capital Partners; TowerBrook Capital Partners; Kinderhook Industries; and TZP Group
Experience
Representative Matters
Yongjin has been involved in the following client engagements:
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Represented Chemtura Corporation in Chapter 11 in obtaining a $450 million DIP financing facility, a $275 million first-lien ABL revolving credit exit facility and a $295 million prefunded term loan exit facility.
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Represented Calpine Corporation in Chapter 11 in obtaining a $5 billion "Super DIP" financing facility to refinance its outstanding DIP facility, repay certain prepetition debt and permit rollover of such "Super DIP" financing into exit financing facilities.
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Represented Attachmate Corporation and its affiliates in a debt financing for the acquisition of Novell, Inc.
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Represented Horizon Lines, Inc. in restructuring its existing debt and obtaining a new $100 million ABL revolving credit facility.
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Represented GSO Capital in a debt financing for the acquisition of Stolle Machinery.
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Represented a private equity sponsor in a debt financing for the acquisition of Cydcor, Inc.
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Represented a private equity sponsor in a debt financing for the acquisition of Neways International.
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Represented GSO Capital as lender under a term loan facility for the acquisition by Siris Capital of a telecommunications network solutions provider.
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Represented GSO Capital as lender under a term loan facility for the acquisition by Charlesbank Capital Partners of The Horn Companies.
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Represented GSO Capital in a debt financing for the acquisition of Arr-Mazz Custom Chemicals.
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Represented Airpax Corporation, LLC in an amended and restated senior credit facility to finance an asset acquisition.
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Represented (i) the steering committee of prepetition lenders to Covanta Energy Corporation (f/k/a Ogden Corporation) and its subsidiaries in restructuring several separate loan and letter of credit facilities relating to various projects of Covanta; (ii) the agent banks under a $375 million debtor-in-possession credit facility for Covanta and its subsidiaries; (iii) the agent banks under a $138 million first-lien letter of credit exit facility, a $10 million first–lien revolving credit exit facility and a $90 million second-lien term loan exit facility for Covanta and its subsidiaries; and (iv) the representatives of the steering committee of secured prepetition lenders with respect to a $230 million third-lien high yield exit facility for Covanta.
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Represented the administrative agent and arranger under a $60 million debtor-in-possession ABL revolving credit facility for Intermet Corporation.
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Represented the administrative agent and arranger under a $300 million revolving credit and term loan refinancing facility for a Midwest movie-theater chain.
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Represented the administrative agent in restructuring of a $100 million revolving credit and term loan facility for an international provider of maintenance and repair services to power generation facilities and other industrial plants.
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Represented the administrative agent in restructuring of a $240 million revolving credit and term loan facility for a telecommunications services company.
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Represented Ormet Corporation in Chapter 11, in obtaining a $150 million first-lien ABL revolving credit exit facility and a $30 million second-lien term loan exit facility.
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Represented a Northeast catalog retailer of jewelry and luxury merchandise, in obtaining a $42 million first-lien ABL revolving credit facility and subordinated note financing.
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Represented agent banks in $300 million and $125 million financings for leveraged acquisitions of cable systems in Pennsylvania and Michigan, a $200 million debtor-in-possession financing for a hospital care and nursing home care provider, and a $200 million debtor-in-possession financing for a death-care provider.
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Represented note purchasers in financing the construction of the CoreStates Spectrum Arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Prior Experience
O'Melveny & Myers LLP, 1992–2006
- Partner in the Finance & Restructuring Group from 2000–2006; Member of the Firm's Diversity Task Force, Diversity Training Committee and Employment Committee.
Korean American Bar Association of Southern California, 1992–1995
- KABA Treasurer in 1995 and Secretary in 1994.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 1999, New York
- 1992, California (inactive)
Education
- University of Chicago Law SchoolJ.D.with Honors1991
- Harvard UniversityB.A., Governmentcum laude1988