SPCM Provides Exit Financing for Centric Brands’ Chapter 11 Emergence

Centric Brands emerged from voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings. Sound Point Capital Management provided exit financing to the company, while Ropes & Gray, PJT Partners and Alvarez & Marsal served as legal, financial, and restructuring advisors, respectively.

October 13, 2020 Alvarez & Marsal | Ares Management Corporation | Blackstone | Centric Brands | HPS Investment Partners | Jason Rabin | PJT Partners | Ropes & Gray | Sound Point Capital Management Ellie Delany

Czyzyk Joins Ropes & Gray’s Business Restructuring Group in London

Ropes & Gray appointed Matthew Czyzyk as a partner in its business restructuring group. Czyzyk has experience acting for debtors, banks and alternative capital providers.

June 4, 2020 David Djaha | Gregg Galardi | Matthew Czyzyk | Ropes & Gray | Will Rosen Phil Neuffer

Blackstone, Ares, HPS to Provide $435 DIP to Centric Brands

Centric Brands entered into a restructuring support agreement, led by certain funds managed by Blackstone, Ares Management, and HPS Investment Partners, to recapitalize the company and provide $435 million in debtor-in-possession financing.

May 18, 2020 Alvarez & Marsal | Ares Management | Blackstone | Centric Brands | Dechert | HPS Investment Partners | Jason Rabin | PJT Partners | Ropes & Gray Phil Neuffer

PJT Partners, RBC Capital Markets Advise on iCapital Acquisition of Artivest

iCapital Network and Artivest entered into a definitive agreement under which iCapital will acquire the Artivest platform and operating businesses. PJT Partners served as financial advisor to iCapital Network and RBC Capital Markets served as financial advisor to Artivest.

May 13, 2020 Artivest | iCapital Network | Lawrence Calcano | Martin Beaulieu | Morrison & Foerster | PJT Partners | RBC Capital Markets | Ropes & Gray Phil Neuffer

Leading M&A Partner Jacobson Joins Ropes & Gray

Global law firm Ropes & Gray named Matthew Jacobson, an accomplished attorney with experience handling a full spectrum of buy- and sell-side M&A transactions, a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions practice.

October 12, 2018 Matthew Jacobson | Ropes & Gray ABF Journal

Ropes & Gray Appoints Adams to D.C. Office

Global law firm Ropes & Gray hired Ama Adams as a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office in its business and securities litigation practice.

November 28, 2017 Alex Rene | Ama Adams | David Tittsworth | Jeremiah Williams | Ropes & Gray | Scott McKeown Amanda Koprowski

Ropes & Gray Names Top M&A Attorney Chair

Global law firm Ropes & Gray appointed Julie H. Jones the first woman chair in the firm’s 152-year history.

November 21, 2017 Julie H. Jones | Ropes & Gray ABF Journal

De Silva Joins Ropes & Gray’s Finance Practice in New York

Ropes & Gray hired Joanne De Silva as a partner in its finance practice in New York, focusing her practice on direct lending transactions, debt investments and debt restructurings across the capital structure.

September 11, 2015 Joanne De Silva | Ropes & Gray Rita Garwood

Ropes & Gray Receives Top Rankings

Ropes & Gray has been widely recognized as a leading law firm in the 2015 edition of the IFLR1000.

October 10, 2014 Ropes & Gray ABF Journal

RBC/UBS Provide Financing for Bain Capital Acquisition

Bob’s Discount Furniture announced the signing of a definitive agreement to sell a majority stake in the company to Bain Capital, a global private investment firm. Financing is being provided by RBC and UBS.

December 31, 2013 Bain Capital | Bob’s Discount Furniture | BofA Merrill Lynch | Kirkland & Ellis | PwC | RBC | Ropes & Gray | UBS ABF Journal