Robert Lewis

Examples of Bob’s significant experience include:

• Representation of telecommunications company in the US$4.4 billion sale of mobile network operator company wireless operations and select spectrum assets to telecommunications company, including a combination of cash and up to approximately US$2 billion of assumed debt.
• Representation of the administrative agent in a $1.75 billion senior unsecured multicurrency credit facility, consisting of a $1 billion multicurrency revolving credit facility and a $750 million term loan facility, in favor of a hospitality REIT in connection with the borrower’s spinoff from its public parent REIT.
• Representation of the administrative agents in connection with concurrent $550 million senior, unsecured revolving credit facilities and $850 million senior, unsecured revolving credit facilities in the power and utilities space, the first U.S. syndicated credit facilities with sustainability-linked pricing incentives.
• Representation of administrative agent in a $175 million sustainability-linked syndicated credit facility, the first ESG-linked credit facility to a U.S. asset manager.
• Representation of the administrative agent in a $450 million senior secured credit facility, consisting of a $100 million revolving credit facility and a $350 million term loan facility, in favor of a newly formed REIT created in a spinoff contemporaneously with the merger of two existing public REITs. 
• Representation of agents and arrangers in connection with $2.9 billion senior secured multicurrency and $700 million unsecured bridge acquisition facilities for a pharmaceuticals company.
• Representation of an investor syndicate in connection with a multi-billion dollar, intellectual property-based, whole-business securitization of an information services company.
• Representation of a commercial bank in connection with the development of a new senior secured lending platform to domestic and off-shore investment funds and other borrowers, secured by RMBS, CMBS and other similar structured real estate assets.
• Representation of the borrower, a healthcare provider portfolio company of large sponsor, in connection with a $845 million first-lien senior secured acquisition financing and a $175 million second-lien secured acquisition financing.
• Representation of the agents in connection with $102.7 million aggregate face amount of direct-pay letters of credit issued to support certain variable rate refunding revenue bonds; the borrower’s reimbursement obligations were supported by first-mortgage bonds. 
• Representation of agents and arrangers in connection with $1.2 billion, $431 million and $279 million senior credit facilities for related energy companies. 
• Representation of the administrative agent in connection with a $1 billion senior secured revolving credit facility to refinance the secured exit credit facilities of a REIT. 

• Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
• Member, Chicago Bar Association and the American Bar Association
• In August 2013, Bob was a member of a relay team that swam 42 miles across Lake Michigan (from Chicago to Michigan) to raise money for early-stage cancer research.