Ellen C. Wheeler

Experience

• Representing FB Debt Financing Guarantor, LLC and certain of its subsidiaries (Forma Brands), a builder of top beauty brands including Morphe®, Morphe 2®, Jaclyn Cosmetics®, and Born Dreamer®, in their Chapter 11 cases to address approximately $870 million of funded indebtedness, facilitate a going-concern 363 sale transaction for substantially all assets, and resolve numerous complex licensing and potential litigation issues.
• Advised a leading global asset manager in a $6.7 billion Chapter 11 bankruptcy of an international satellite company.*
• Counseled a leading global asset manager in an out-of-court debt exchange and subsequent global refinancing involving a leading national medical group.*
• Advised a leading global asset manager in an out-of-court debt exchange involving an independent distributor and global provider of supply chain solutions for the commercial aerospace industry.*
• Advised a leading global asset manager in an equity and bond investment in an electric vehicle automaker and automotive technology company.*
• Represented Blackstone and Change Healthcare Holdings, Inc. in the creation with McKesson Corporation of a new healthcare health care information technology company, combining substantially all of Change Healthcare’s business and the majority of McKesson Technology Solutions business.
• Represented Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in connection with $600 million joint venture with Humana, Inc. to develop in primary care centers.
• Represented Advent International in its acquisition of Aimbridge Hospitality and the follow-on merger of Aimbridge Hospitality and Interstate Hotels & Resorts, both independent third-party hotel operators.
• Represented Aretex Capital Partners in its acquisition of U.S. ETF index provider Alerian.
• Advised Elliott Management Corporation in respect of its investments in EFH/EFIH (TXU) and its consortium bid for the majority interest in Oncor, the Dallas-area regulated electric utility.
• Advised Sixth Street Partners in connection with the bankrupt restructuring of Neiman Marcus Group.
• Represented Sixth Street Partners in its approximately $1.27 billion purchase of Credit Suisse’s distressed credit portfolio consisting of over 270 instruments across asset types and geographies relating to approximately 170 companies.
• Represented New Mountain Capital in its acquisition of Aceto’s chemicals business in a sale pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
• Represented Goldman, Sachs & Co. in a number of structured equity investments in the telecommunications, data center and real estate industries.
• Advised a private equity firm in multiple joint ventures with various management groups/asset managers to provide capital to fund various lines of business relating to finance, including small ticket revolving loans, mid-size commercial loans, and liquidity for tech company executives.
• Advised Thunderbird Resources Equity, Inc. in its $250m acquisition of a minority interest in a regasification facility in Mississippi.

*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray