William D. Howell

Bill’s experience includes the following (including transactions prior to joining Sidley):

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Rithm Capital — US$720 million acquisition of Computershare’s U.S Loan Services business.
• Hagerty, Inc. — US$3.0 billion business combination with Aldel Financial Inc., a special purpose acquisition company
• Safe Harbor Marinas, LLC — US$2.1 billion sale to Sun Communities, Inc.
• General DataTech — sale to H.I.G. Captial.
• New Residential Trust Corporation — US$1.3 billion acquisition of mortgage business from Ditech Holding Corporation out of Chapter 11.
• Enlink Midstream — sale of North Texas pipeline to Atmos Energy.
• Mr. Cooper Group (f/k/a Nationstar Mortgage) — purchase of mortgage servicing platform from International Business Machines Corporation; purchases of portfolios of mortgage servicing rights; purchase of residential property services firm from large insurance company.
• C&S Wholesale Grocers — acquisition of Grocers Supply Company.
• Electronic Data Systems — US$200 million tender offer in a going-private transaction and US$900 million acquisition of a global software company.
• Centex Corporation — US$750 million sale of its mortgage-lending business to a major private equity fund.
• Affiliated Computer Services — US$588 million sale of its federal government business; US$107 million acquisition of business unit from a major defense contractor; acquisition of Swiss-based business processing company.
• Dairy Farmers of America — sale of dairy processing company to Mexican dairy conglomerate.
• Elbit Systems of America — acquisition of a commercial aviation company.

Securities

• Raising Cane’s Restaurants, LLC — issuance of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 9.375% senior notes.
• Vistra Corp. — 144A private offerings of US$1 billion of its 7.0% Series B Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Redeemable Green Perpetual Preferred Stock and US$1 billion of its 8% Series A Fixed-Rate Reset Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preferred Stock.
• Special Purpose Acquisition Company — represented underwriters in US$150 million IPO.
• Everest Consolidator Acquisition Corp. — represented underwriters in US$172.5 million special purpose acquitistion company (SPAC) IPO.
• Vistra Corp. IPO — resale shelf registration statement on Form S-1 that represented Vista’s initial registration with the SEC and listing on the NYSE following its spinoff from EFH Corp.
• Vistra Corp. — numerous 144A private offerings of senior notes and senior secured notes totaling more than US$5 billion in aggregate proceeds to fund the tender, redemption, and retirement of outstanding debt in overall liability management program.
• Eagle Materials Inc. — US$350 million senior notes offering.
• Consumer finance company — tender offer and consent solicitation with respect to approximately US$250 million of outstanding senior notes.
• InfraREIT, Inc. — US$529 million initial public offering.
• MetroPCS Communications — US$1.3 billion initial public offering; global debt restructuring, including US$1.4 billion 144A private offering of senior notes and entry into a US$1.7 billion senior secured credit facility.
• Bois d’Arc Energy — US$175.5 million initial public offering.
• Comstock Resources — US$75 million senior notes offering.
• Netspend Holdings — US$200 million initial public offering.
• Sabre Holdings Corporation — US$420 million offering of common stock.
• Data Return Corporation — US$81.25 million initial public offering.

Private Equity

• Leon Capital Group — multiple platform acquisitions of specialty dental, oral surgery, and dental implant practices.
• Cresta Fund Management and Silverpeak Energy Partners — agreement with San Joaquin Renewables to invest up to US$165 million to develop and construct a biomass-to-renewable natural gas project.
• Hines — formation of a US$300 million real estate investment fund and US$800 million follow-on fund; formation of real estate funds to acquire and develop multi-family housing projects.
• Perpetual Production — Strategic investments by private equity partners to fund the acquisition of mineral interests.
• Staghorn Energy and Staghorn Petroleum — investments by EnCap Energy.
• Energy Spectrum Partners — sale of midstream portfolio company to Atlas Pipeline Partners.
• Cottoncreek Capital — acquisition of commercial electric company.
• Carlson Capital — sale of independent E&P company to Chesapeake Energy.

Bill is a member of the Dallas Bar Association.