William Zakhary

Ares on securing a new backleveraged first lien credit facility jointly arranged by MUFG Bank, Ltd. and BNP Paribas in connection with counseling Ares funds in a partnership with ENGIE North America, holding a 2.7 GW portfolio — one of the largest sales completed in the renewables sector based on total capacity

Global Tel Link (d/b/a ViaPath Technologies), an American Securities portfolio company, in obtaining a $1.375 billion first lien term loan facility and a $150 million revolving credit facility to refinance its existing credit facilities

EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) in its $3.5 billion unsecured revolving credit facility in connection with its acquisition of Equitrans Midstream Corporation (NYSE: ETRN), a leading independent national gas production company with operations focused in the Appalachian Basin

Environmental Infrastructure Partner (EIP), a portfolio company of Ridgewood Infrastructure, in its $175 million refinancing of its existing delayed draw term loan facility in order to facilitate EIP’s continued development of its diverse portfolio of infrastructure projects focused on sustainable water, energy efficiency, transportation and communications projects with municipalities, universities and hospitals throughout the United States

Blue Owl in a $25 million fund-level revolving credit facility, focusing on originating loans to technology and software companies in the middle and upper markets

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $7.5 billion debt financing facility

Hines in the amendment and restatement of its unsecured credit facility, supporting a diverse portfolio of real estate assets in the United States, initially consisting of a $325 million revolving facility and a $100 million term loan facility. The facility also includes an “accordion” feature permitting expansion of the combined commitments up to a total of $1 billion and features pricing adjustments based on the achievement of certain real estate-related sustainability metrics

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., and affiliated funds, in its refinancing of a back-leverage debt facility consisting of a $375 million senior secured first lien term loan and a $96 million capital contribution by the sponsor

CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $2.3 billion debt financing facility

Tupperware Brands Corporation in the reallocation and restructuring of nearly $810 million of its existing senior secured debt to provide for, among other things, the reduction of certain cash interest, fees and amortization payments, an extension of the stated maturity of a portion of the existing senior secured debt and immediate access to revolving borrowing capacity

Transportation Infrastructure Partners, a joint venture between Ridgewood Infrastructure and Savage Enterprises, in its acquisition of The Dupuy Group, a provider of port logistics infrastructure and services

Noble Corporation (NYSE: NE) in its $550 million refinancing of its existing debt facilities and entry into a senior secured revolving credit facility

Bristow Group Inc., in its entry into two senior secured term loan facilities, in an amount up to £145 million, to refinance certain of the company’s previous credit facilities, support its obligations under its contracts with the government of the United Kingdom, and provide general working capital

Altera Infrastructure L.P., a global provider of critical infrastructure assets to the offshore energy industry, in its entry into its debtor-in-possession credit facility, and subsequent financing of seven exit credit facilities totaling nearly $1.6 billion, in connection with its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Premium Oilfield Technologies, a portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, in the upsizing of its existing asset-based loan facility and addition of a sublimit secured by export-related inventory and accounts receivable guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the United States

EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) in its $1.25 billion unsecured delayed-draw term loan credit facility in connection with the financing of its $5.2 billion acquisition of Tug Hill’s upstream assets and XcL Midstream’s gathering and processing assets

General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) in its strategic investment in Queensland Pacific Metals Limited

Hines in an unsecured facility providing financing to certain fund and subsidiary entities, initially consisting of initial term loan commitments of $50 million and revolving loan commitments of $50 million, along with an “accordion” feature permitting expansion of the combined commitments up to a total of $1 billion

Fusion Risk Management, a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, in its refinancing

Seattle Reproductive Medicine, a leading fertility medicine practice based in Seattle, in its joining of the Pinnacle Fertility network

Clearlake Capital Group in its $2.6 billion acquisition of Intertape Polymer Group Inc., with financing arrangements composed of a $1.5 billion first lien term loan facility and a $250 million ABL revolver facility

EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) in its unsecured revolving credit facility with $2.5 billion aggregate commitments 

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc., (NASDAQ:PLAY), in its $835 million acquisition of Main Event 

Ares’s Infrastructure and Power strategy in its $600 million strategic equity investment in SB Energy, SoftBank Group Corp.’s U.S. Climate Infrastructure Technology platform 

Seadrill Limited (Second Restructuring) and certain of its direct and indirect subsidiaries in their multi-jurisdictional restructuring of approximately $6.1 billion of funded debt. Seadrill is a leading global provider of offshore contract drilling services and employs nearly 3,100 individuals across 15 countries and five continents. Seadrill's Chapter 11 cases, one of the largest filings of 2021, equitized approximately $4.9 billion of secured debt across twelve silos and facilitated a capital investment of $350 million, enabling Seadrill to continue to operate its modern fleet of drilling units 

Apollo (NYSE: APO) in its acquisition of a 50 percent stake in Broad Reach Power LLC, a leading renewable energy and energy storage developer

Vista Equity Partners in its strategic investment in Salesloft

KKR and Atlantic Aviation in its acquisition of the Lynx FBO Network