Rob is an associate in Ropes & Gray’s finance practice, based in the New York office. Rob’s experience includes representing leading investment banks, institutional investors, commercial banks and corporations in connection with public and private lending and capital market transactions, including secured and unsecured bank financings, syndicated institutional loans, asset backed loans, investment grade and high yield bond offerings, tender offers and consent solicitations in connection with acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, project financings, bridge lending and loan commitments, liability management exercises and other financing transactions.
During law school, Rob was a comments editor for the Michigan Business & Entrepreneurial Law Review.
Experience
Rob’s representative matters include advising:
- Credit Suisse and lead arrangers in connection with a (i) $3 billion term loan B and a (ii) $500 million revolving credit facility for Clydesdale Acquisition Holdings, Inc. (Novolex). Proceeds from the facilities were used to fund the leveraged buyout of Novolex from Carlyle by Apollo Global Management. Such financing included the largest-ever sustainability linked loan to date.*
- Financing sources in connection with Novolex’s $6.7 billion acquisition of Pactiv Evergreen. Transaction team named “Legal Lions of the Week” by Law360.*
- Barclays and lead arrangers in connection with a (i) $900 million term loan B credit facility, a (ii) $175 million revolving credit facility and a (iii) $205 million second lien credit facility, in connection with Thomas H. Lee Partners’ acquisition of the Semiconductor Solutions Group from Azenta, Inc.*
- Credit Suisse and lead arrangers in connection with a (i) $3.6 billion term loan B and (ii) $650 million revolving credit facility for CDK Global, Inc, in connection with Brookfield’s acquisition of CDK Global, Inc.*
- Lead arrangers in connection with a $425 million revolving credit facility for Edgewell Personal Care Company.*
- JPMorgan and lead arrangers in connection with T-Mobile’s $10 billion revolving credit facility.*
- Lead arrangers in connection with a $2 billion term loan B credit facility and a $250 million revolving credit facility for Informatica LLC.*
- Bank of America and lead arrangers in connection with a $2.4 billion refinancing and incremental amendment to the existing term loan B credit facility for Asurion LLC.*
- Lead arrangers in connection with a $2 billion amended and restated credit facility for Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation.*
- Bank of America and lead arrangers in connection with a $4 billion asset-based revolving facility for Albertsons.*
- Lead arrangers in connection with a $300 million term B incremental credit facility for DexKo Global Inc.*
*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray