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Kelsey is a counsel in our New York office whose practice focuses on private capital and finance matters. Her experience includes representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, corporate clients, financial institutions and alternative credit providers in connection with domestic and cross-border syndicated and direct lending leveraged acquisition financings, working capital facilities, refinancings, restructurings, liability management transactions and asset-based lending.
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- CVC Capital on its $925m global carve-out acquisition of Therakos from Mallinckrodt (awarded IFLR Americas Deal of the Year 2025).
- CVC Capital in connection with a refinancing of the existing financings of its portfolio company Ontic.
- Aquiline Capital Partners in connection with financings for Accuserv, CoAdvantage and Cordance.
- Investcorp in connection with an add-on financing for its portfolio company ICR.
- Platinum Equity in the financing of its acquisition of Imerys’s High Temperature Solutions business.
- Sixth Street and BGH Capital, a leading Australian private equity sponsor, in the financing of their acquisition of Pushpay Holdings Limited.
- Keysight Technologies on its all-cash recommended offer to acquire Spirent Communications PLC and the financing to support the acquisition, comprised of a bridge loan facility.
- PBF Holding Company LLC, a subsidiary of PBF Energy Inc., on its amended and restated $3.5bn asset-based revolving credit facility.
- ORIX Corporation and certain of its subsidiaries, as borrowers, on their working capital revolving credit facility.
- Razor Group on the acquisition of Perch, a leading e-commerce aggregator in the US, and on Razor’s refinancing of the capital structure for the combined group.
- SumUp on its €1.5bn private credit loan, one of the largest European private credit deals of its kind in recent years.
- Verlinvest in connection with the entry by one of its portfolio companies into a $75m senior secured term loan and a $12.5m senior secured delayed draw term loan facility.
- Fomento Economico Mexicano on the sale of its refrigeration and foodservice equipment operations, Imbera and Torrey.
- Leggett & Platt on its $285m sale of its Aerospace Products Group to funds managed by Tinicum.
Arranger/agent/lender representations
- Goldman Sachs and Bank of Montreal in connection with the $8.5bn financing for Canadian Pacific Railway’s acquisition of Kansas City Southern.
- A lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with (i) a $1.64bn senior secured credit facilities provided to Altra Industrial Motion Corp. and (ii) a $400m senior unsecured bridge facility provided to a special purpose subsidiary of Fortive Corporation in connection with Altra’s acquisition of Fortive’s Automation & Specialty platform through a potentially tax-free Reverse Morris Trust transaction.
- A lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with a $850m term loan facility and a $400m revolving credit facility provided to Adtalem Global Education to finance its acquisition of Walden University.
- An administrative agent and the revolving facility lenders in connection with acquisition financing provided to KPS Capital Partners, LP for its acquisition of AM General LLC.
- A lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with a $200m working capital revolving credit facility provided to Oscar Health, Inc.
- Joint lead arrangers and an administrative agent in connection with a $300m working capital, asset-based revolving credit facility for Chewy, Inc.
- Citibank, NA in connection with the $1bn debtor-in-possession financing for Windstream Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries.
- An ad hoc group of term lenders in connection with the supersenior and debtor-in-possession financings for Murray Energy Corporation.
*This list includes work that Kelsey completed while at a prior firm.
Kelsey Avery
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