About
Sean is a Counsel in the Private Capital practice based in the New York office. His practice focuses on leveraged finance, including domestic and cross-border financings, first and second lien credit facilities, asset-based facilities, subscription facilities and in- and out-of-court restructurings, among other transactions. He advises corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors, direct lenders, asset managers, banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of debt financing transactions across both private and syndicated markets.
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- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (AHT) in a $450m senior secured term facility for Ashford Hospitality Limited Partnership, the operating partnership of AHT.
- Benchmark Energy in obtaining a new $150m revolving credit facility from Frost Bank to facilitate the acquisition of significant upstream assets and related facilities within the Western Anadarko Basin.
- 3G Capital on its financing for the acquisition of a controlling interest in Hunter Douglas from the Sonnenberg family.
- Genesee & Wyoming Inc., a short-line railroad holding company and a portfolio company of Brookfield Asset Management and GIC Private Limited, on its $2.725bn term loan B credit facility, $600m revolving credit facility and $700m high-yield notes offering.
- Sovos Brands (an Advent International portfolio company) on its $185m senior secured credit facilities to finance its acquisition of Rao’s Specialty Foods.
- Sovos Brands (an Advent International portfolio company) on its $75m senior secured credit facilities to finance its acquisition of Michael Angelo’s Gourmet Foods.
- Wheels Up Experience Inc., a provider of on-demand private aviation services, in its strategic partnership with a consortium of investors led by Delta Air Lines, Certares Management LLC, Knighthead Capital Management LLC and Cox Enterprises in connection with the establishment of a $500m credit facility through a debt and equity capital raise.
- Davidson Kempner Capital Management in the formation of reinsurance vehicle Kindley Re and related transactions with Kuvare Holdings.
- Vista Equity Partners in multiple financing transactions for its acquisitions, refinancings and/or recapitalizations of Advanced, iCIMS and Xactly.
- Brookfield Asset Management in its $4.25bn term and revolving facilities to finance in part its $11.4bn acquisition of Forest City Realty Trust Inc. (n/k/a Brookfield Properties).
- BlueMountain Capital in its financing of a sponsor-owned healthcare company.
- CFG Holdings Ltd (Cayman Islands) in an asset-based revolving facility to finance its consumer lending business.
- The lead arrangers in $3bn senior secured facilities to finance in part JAB’s approximately $7.5bn take-private of Panera Bread Company.
- A private equity firm in $1.05bn secured, multicurrency credit facilities to finance its acquisition of Kenan Advantage Group, Inc.
- Nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric Company in its Chapter 11 cases (including more than $800m of DIP financing) and $4.6bn sale to Brookfield.
*This list includes work that Sean completed while at a prior firm.
Sean McClay
Counsel
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