William G. Taylor

High Yield Offerings

• TPG Rise Climate and GIC in connection with the offering of €750 million senior secured notes as part of their €6.7 billion leveraged buyout of Techem
• STADA, a Bain and Cinven portfolio company, in connection with its offering of €650 million senior secured notes and €600 million senior secured floating rate notes
• Antolin in connection with its offering of €250 million senior secured notes and the amendment and extension of its €515 million senior term and revolving facilities
• Befimmo, a Brookfield portfolio company, in connection with its inaugural offering of €350 million senior secured notes
• Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with the offering of $500 million senior secured notes and $300 million preferred equity raise as part of its $1.8 billion leveraged buyout of MoneyGram
• Banijay in connection with its offering of €910 million (equivalent) senior secured notes
• Emeria, a Partners Group portfolio company, in connection with its offering of €400 million senior secured notes
• MasOrange in connection with:
  • its inaugural offering of €720 million senior secured notes and its subsequent offering of €80 million senior secured notes as part of its €3 billion leveraged buyout by KKR, Cinven and Providence*
  • its offering of €1.55 billion senior secured notes and €500 million senior notes as part of its €2 billion leveraged buyout of Euskaltel*
• T-Mobile in connection with its inaugural offering of €800 million senior secured notes and €550 million senior notes as part of its €5.1 billion leveraged buyout by Apax and Warburg Pincus*
• TDR in connection with:
  • David Lloyd’s inaugural offering of €300 million senior secured floating rate notes and £645 million senior secured notes and £200 million PIK facility*
  • Constellation Automotive Group’s inaugural offering of £695 million senior secured notes*
  • LeasePlan’ offering of €500 million senior secured notes*
• Cirsa, a Blackstone portfolio company, in connection with its offering of €390 million senior secured notes*
• The initial purchasers in connection with Fugro’s inaugural offering of €550 million senior secured notes*

Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions

• Arrow Global Group in connection with the acquisition and successful recapitalization of AFE by way of a consent solicitation to amend and restate its €307 million senior secured floating rate notes and a private placement of €35 million senior secured floating rate notes
• Genesis Care in connection with its Chapter 11 reorganization and $1.7 billion debt restructuring, pursuant to which an existing creditor group emerged as the new majority equity owners of the reorganized company
• An ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group
• The investors in connection with Grifols’ private placement of €1 billion senior secured notes
• New Look in connection with its debt-for-equity swap and concurrent private placement of £150 million (equivalent) senior secured PIK notes as part of its £1.35 billion debt restructuring*
• Takko Fashion, an Apax portfolio company, in connection with its consent solicitation, €23.5 million senior secured facility and €30 million private placement as part of a COVID-19 liquidity package*
• Pepper Money, a KKR portfolio company, in connection with its consent solicitation as part of its pre- $500 million IPO corporate reorganization*

Investment Grade Transactions

• The underwriters in connection with SEC-registered debt offerings by KfW totalling approximately $30 billion (equivalent)*
• The underwriters in connection with SEC-registered debt offerings by the RELX Group totalling approximately $1 billion*
• BPPEH in connection with the establishment and annual updates of its €10 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme, as well as subsequent takedowns thereunder totalling approximately €4 billion (equivalent) and various liability management transactions*
• Logicor in connection with the establishment and annual updates of its €10 billion Euro Medium Term Note Programme, as well as subsequent takedowns thereunder totalling approximately €3 billion (equivalent) and various liability management transactions*
• Universal Music Group in connection with the annual update of its Euro Medium Term Note Programme

*Denotes experience prior to joining Kirkland.