Nitin Konchady focuses on capital markets and securities transactions and workouts, with an emphasis on distressed and special situations.
Nitin advises investment funds, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and issuers in connection with public and private debt and hybrid capital issuances and liability management transactions. He also advises debtors and creditors in connection with financial restructuring matters, including out-of-court and in-court restructurings, debt equitizations, amend and extend transactions, and rights offerings. Nitin also has significant experience in complex financing and capital markets transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance transactions and high yield debt issuances. His experience covers various industries and regions, including the U.S., UK, and continental Europe.
Experience
- Represented debtors and creditors in in-court restructurings (including Chapter 11 proceedings, UK schemes of arrangements and other European insolvency proceedings), together with equity rights offerings and related backstop commitments, and exit financings, including for 2U, Accuride, Edcon Group, Enquest, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Scandinavian Airlines, SoLocal Group, Syncreon Group and Talen Energy.*
- Represented issuers, creditors and other financial institutions in out-of-court restructuring and liability management transactions involving debt uptiering, extensions, equitizations and exchanges, including for Ascent Resources Utica Holdings, Digicel, Ferroglobe, KCA Deutag, Olympic Entertainment and Universal Entertainment.*
- Represented issuers and investment funds in hybrid capital issuances and investments, including for Getaround, Kiwi.com, Li-Cycle, MagIron, Soho House, Vertical Aerospace and Zeb Aluminum.*
- Represented private equity sponsors, investment banks and other financial institutions in acquisition finance transactions (including bridge-to-bond financings) including for Advent International (Cobham), Bain Capital (Kantar), CD&R (Morrisons), Centerbridge Partners (Senvion), CVC (Domestic & General), Hellman & Friedman (TeamSystem, Verisure), Neogen Corporation (Reverse-Morris Trust transaction to combine with the Food Safety Business of 3M) and Triton Partners (WernerCo).*
- Represented private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, issuers, investment banks and other financial institutions in high yield notes issuances and other leveraged finance transactions, including for Broadstreet Partners, Great-West Lifeco, HomeVi, Iron Mountain Incorporated, Infopro Digital, InPost, Lima Corporate, Paprec Group, Perform Group, PizzaExpress, Rain Carbon, Southeastern Grocers and The Very Group.*
- Represented sponsors and their portfolio companies on several cross-border initial public offerings and listings on UK and continental European exchanges, secondary offerings and block trades.*
* Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray