Century City
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Stephen Scharf
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1999 Avenue of the Stars, 7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA, 90067
Phone: +1-310-246-6813
Fax: +1-310-246-6779
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Hong Kong
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Mark Fairbairn
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31st Floor, AIA Central
1 Connaught Road Central
Hong Kong
Phone: +852-3512-2385
Fax: +852-2522-1760
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London
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Sherri Snelson
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Warwick Court
5 Paternoster Square
London, EC4M 7DX
Phone: +44-20-7558-4872
Fax: +44-20-7088-0001
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Los Angeles
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Thomas W. Baxter
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400 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA, 90071
Phone: +1-213-430-6570
Fax: +1-213-430-6407
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Joe Kim
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400 South Hope Street
Los Angeles, CA, 90071
Phone: +1-213-430-6511
Fax: +1-213-430-6407
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New York
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Gregory Ezring
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Times Square Tower
7 Times Square
New York, NY, 10036
Phone: +1-212-326-2143
Fax: +1-212-326-2061
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Todd Triller
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Times Square Tower
7 Times Square
New York, NY, 10036
Phone: +1-212-326-2253
Fax: +1-212-326-2061
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Frederick Bachman
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Times Square Tower
7 Times Square
New York, NY, 10036
Phone: +1-212-408-2444
Fax: +1-212-326-2061
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San Francisco
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Peter Healy
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Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor
San Francisco, CA, 94111-3823
Phone: +1-415-984-8833
Fax: +1-415-984-8701
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Shanghai
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Qiang Li
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Plaza 66, Tower 1, 37th Floor
1266 Nanjing Road West
Shanghai, 200040
Phone: +86-21-2307-7018
Fax: +86-21-2307-7300
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Singapore
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Bertie Mehigan
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9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1888
Fax: +65 6593-1801
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Huey Yann Thong
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9 Raffles Place
#22-01/02
Republic Plaza 1
Singapore, 048619
Phone: +65-6593-1828
Fax: +65 6593-1801
PROFESSIONALS
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American Ag Credit
American Capital Strategies
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Bank of America
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CCMP Capital
Citibank N.A.
Credit Suisse
Deutsche Bank
TCW
Tennenbaum Capital Partners
Wells Fargo
Western Digital
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Corporate Finance
As worldwide financial markets become more complex, market players demand counseling reflecting the best blend of legal experience, market knowledge, practicality, and innovation. Our corporate finance lawyers can help assess the risks and identify the opportunities in financing and debt investing activities. Our corporate finance lawyers represent some of the largest and most sophisticated private equity firms, corporations, banks and investment funds, as borrowers and lenders, issuers and investors, in financing and debt investing transactions in the principal debt markets in the United States, Asia, and Europe. We also represent a range of borrowers and lenders in middle market leveraged acquisition and other financing transactions.
Each year, teams of O’Melveny lawyers around the globe handle multiple buy-side and sell-side acquisition transactions, leveraged finance transactions, minority investments, dividend recaps, strategic projects, and traditional recapitalizations on behalf of our clients. Our team of more than 40 seasoned lawyers across three continents has a proven track record of successfully structuring, negotiating, and closing complex financing transactions to meet those clients’ needs.
Key Facts
- Chambers USA 2010 recognizes O’Melveny’s corporate finance practice "as a leader in both lender and corporate work."
- Chambers Asia 2010 comments that our team in Asia "handles a range of financings, including real estate lending, mezzanine financing, and ship and equipment financing," and that in the recently-opened Singapore office, “the banking team adds South-East Asian expertise to the firm’s strong Greater China network of three offices, and institutional relationships with banks, private equity houses and hedge funds."
- Legal 500 – United States (2010) recommends our US offices for finance: bank lending, and comments that O’Melveny “operates across all levels of the capital structure, and has rounded out its traditional West Coast, broad-based financing expertise with a growing reputation in New York and a strong international platform."
- Legal 500 – Asia Pacific (2010) recommends O’Melveny’s China offices for banking and finance, noting, "well-known for venture and private equity financing, O’Melveny & Myers LLP also has wide banking and project finance experience," and explains that our Tokyo office "handles a raft of financing work - including acquisition finance and real estate finance - for lenders, borrowers and private equity sponsors."
- PLC Which Lawyer? (2008) recognizes our US offices for: banking and finance; capital markets: debt and equity; our Los Angeles office as a leader in banking and finance; our China offices for corporate/M&A; private equity/venture capital; tax; our Hong Kong office for private equity/venture capital; banking and finance; and our Japan office for corporate /M&A work.
Industry Reach
- Asset-Based Financings
- Bridge Loans
- Corporate Credit Facilities
- Distressed Debt Investing
- High Yield Bond Financings
- Investment Credit Facilities
- Letter of Credit Facilities
- Leveraged Acquisition and Recapitalization Financings
- Mezzanine Debt Financings
- Private Placements
- Senior Secured Credit Facilities
- Subordination and Intercreditor Arrangements
- Venture Debt Financing
- Workouts and Restructurings
Practice Strengths
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Asia
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With offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo, we are active in financings throughout emerging Asia markets on behalf of US-based and non-US based clients. Our multicultural and multilingual approach makes us uniquely capable of fielding large and knowledgeable teams to handle a full range of financings throughout Asia. Our team brings decades of experience to complex structured finance, restructuring, distressed asset, private equity, and infrastructure transactions in the fast-growing Asia markets.
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Energy and Infrastructure Finance
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Our energy and infrastructure finance lawyers represent financial institutions, investment funds, and project sponsors in complex financings. We handle a range of structures including more traditional project finance and mezzanine finance for infrastructure projects. For example, we recently represented Midway Investment and Development Company LLC in its winning US$2.5 billion bid to enter into a 99-year concession to operate Chicago Midway Airport. Our group also has deep experience in the power sector and is increasingly focused on renewable energy projects.
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Entertainment Finance
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Through our market-leading Entertainment, Sports and Media practice, we have represented both film studios and lenders in a wide variety of innovative and sophisticated entertainment financing transactions, including structured studio financings and structured film slate financing deals. Our experience in structured slate-financing deals is unmatched. For example, we represented Legendary Pictures Funding in its approx. US$1 billion recapitalization and expanded co-financing agreement with Warner Bros; The Weinstein company in its US$1.2 billion securitization to make and distribute films; Dark Castle Entertainment in its ground-breaking US$240 million structured financing; The Walt Disney Company in its multi-picture slate financing and creation of Magic Films II, LLC; and Sony Pictures Entertainment in its multiple slate co-financing deals with Relativity Media.
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Lender Representation
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Our corporate finance group has long been a leader in representing lenders and investors as providers of funding in lending and debt investing transactions. Chambers Global 2008 referred to us as a “historically renowned banking powerhouse” that offers an “impressive stable of attorneys, responsive to clients’ needs.” Our lender and debt investor clients range from banks and other traditional institutional lenders in large scale cash flow and asset-based syndicated “bank market” financings to mezzanine and other specialized investment funds providing leveraged acquisition financing, making distressed debt investments and engaging in other “special situation” lending.
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Private Equity Finance
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We provide a full range of advice and representation on finance matters to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We provide a “one-stop shop” for all their financing transactions, including bank market, mezzanine and high yield bond financings for leveraged acquisitions, as well as the direct financing needs of the private equity funds themselves. We also handle debt investment transactions by private equity and other investment funds. Our acquisition financing representations range from sophisticated bank market credit facilities and multi-tranche high yield bond issuances for large scale leveraged acquisitions by major private equity sponsors to financings provided by commercial finance companies and other middle market senior and mezzanine lenders for private equity firms focused on the middle market. In all our acquisition financing transactions, we work as an integrated team with our mergers and acquisitions lawyers on the transactions.
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