Partner
Mark G. Adler
- Global Finance
- Private Equity
- Restructuring
MARK ADLER focuses his practice on all aspects of debt financing with an emphasis on representing private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and alternative capital providers in complex financial transactions, including leveraged buy outs, liability management exercises, recapitalizations, in and out - of court restructurings and other special situation transactions. He has advised on financing transactions ranging in size from US$5 million to over US$7 billion, including secured and unsecured financings, first lien, second lien, and mezzanine financings, both broadly syndicated and privately placed financings, financings marketed in the United States for the acquisition of targets located in Europe and Latin America, concurrent acquisitions and combinations of multiple unaffiliated companies, spinoffs, and carve-outs, as well as the implementation and subsequent sale of multiple portfolio companies.
Experience
- Representative Matters
- Represented a healthcare operations software company in obtaining US$240 million in committed acquisition financing.
- Represented a web-hosting solutions company in connection with the issuance of US$515 million in first lien secured bonds.
- Represented Harvest Sherwood in connection with the refinancing of their US$350 million ABL.
- Represented a consumer finance company, as borrower, in connection with a revolving credit facility.
- Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the recapitalization and take-private of Akumin, Inc. and its subsidiaries through a prepackaged Chapter 11 process.
- Represented AppHarvest, Inc. and its subsidiaries in its bridge and DIP financings in connection with their Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
- Represented Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its sale of Archer to Cinven Limited in equal partnership with Symphony Technology Group.
- Represented American Entertainment Properties Corp. (“AEP”), an Icahn Enterprises, L.P. subsidiary in recapitalization and DIP financing in connection with the Chapter 11 cases of AEP’s affiliate, Auto Plus.
- Represented TowerBrook Capital Partners L.P. in its majority equity investment in Demakes Enterprises, LLC.
- Represented Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in its acquisition, along with Motive Partners, of the BETA+ assets (“BetaNXT”) from London Stock Exchange Group and BetaNXT’s subsequent acquisition of Mediant Communications.
- Represented Restaurant Brands International Inc., a multinational fast-food holding company comprised of Burger King, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Firehouse Subs, and Tim Hortons, in the refinancing of it US$7 billion+ credit facilities.
- Represented Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. in the recapitalization transaction and equity investment for Learfield, a leading media and technology company powering college athletics.
- Represented an ad hoc group of first-lien noteholders holding over US$1 billion of notes in the financing and restructuring of a wireless communications company.
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- New York
Education
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, J.D., 2013 (cum laude)
- Talmudic Research Center, Bachelor of Talmudic Law, 2002