Representing U.S. Renal Care in its successful refinancing and deleveraging transactions. U.S. Renal Care is the nation's largest privately held and fastest growing kidney care provider with a network of over 400 clinics and 200 home programs. The liability management transaction significantly reduced the Company's debt, lowered its annual interest expense by approximately 20 percent, and raised $328 million in new capital to enhance future growth. The transaction also extended the maturities of the Company’s debt by two years.
Represented Oaktree Transportation Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of Dow’s North American rail infrastructure assets, in partnership with Watco Companies.
Representing KKR in its pending merger of assets held by KKR Natural Resources Funds with the assets of Legend Production Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC, to create a new oil and gas company called Trinity River Energy, LLC.
Represented Al Faisal Holding Co. in its $213 million
acquisition of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Miami, FL from Starwood
Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Represented
Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited (now known as Irish Bank Resolution
Corporation) in the sale of its $9.5 billion portfolio of U.S. commercial real
estate loans.
Represented
General Growth Properties in a comprehensive restructuring of over $15 billion
of property-level CMBS debt.
Represented
MSR Golf Course LLC and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11
restructuring of approximately $2.2 billion in consolidated assets and
approximately $1.9 billion in consolidated liabilities, including $1 billion in
CMBS loans and more than $500 million of mezzanine loans.
Represent
Innkeepers USA in connection with the debt restructuring and sale of over 70
hotels operated under various franchise agreements.
Represent
GEM Realty Capital in connection with the development and financing of a Hilton
and Waldorf hotels convention center.
Represented
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., in the formation of a joint
venture for the $638 million purchase of the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Represented
a national homebuilder in connection with the negotiation and restructuring of
a portfolio of land bank, option agreements and other off balance contractual
obligations.
Represented
TOUSA, Inc. in connection with the disposition of its Southwest and Northeast
homebuilding divisions.
Represented
Conseco, Inc., the controlling joint venture partner, in connection with the
$1.4 billion sale of the General Motors Building in New York City.
Represented
General Motors Investment Management Company, as investment manager to General
Motors Pension Trust, with the equity investment in a multifamily real estate
equity fund.
Represented
LaSalle Investment Management in connection with the restructuring of a $350 million United Kingdom-based real estate fund to permit the tax efficient
investment in United States real estate.
Represented
British Petroleum in connection with the sale of refinery assets including the
$152 million sale of a refinery in Yorktown, VA.
