MUFG-Led Syndicate Provides $338MM in Debt Financing to Arevon Energy

Arevon Energy closed financing on the Vikings solar-plus-storage project with a combination of debt financing and tax credit transfer. The $338 million debt facility was financed with MUFG, BNP Paribas, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and First Citizens Bank.

November 9, 2023 Arevon Energy | BNP Paribas | Daniel Murphy | First Citizens Bank | J.P. Morgan | Kevin Smith | Milbank | MUFG | National Bank of Canada | Stoel Rives | Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

Eos Partners Completes Majority Recapitalization of Gulf Pacific

Gulf Pacific, a value-added packager and processor of high-quality specialty foods and ingredients, including imported fragrant and organic rice varieties, rice flours, stabilized rice bran and ancient grains, completed a majority recapitalization with Eos Partners and its affiliates.

December 7, 2022 Christian Brenckmann | Craig Gottesman | Eos Partners | Goldman Sachs | Gulf Pacific | Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors | Lincoln International | Southwest Spice | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

KeyBank and Fifth Third Bank Provide $186.2MM Credit Agreement to Greenbacker

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company, a green energy investment company and independent power producer, entered into a senior credit agreement of $186.2 million with KeyBank and Fifth Third Bank.

September 16, 2022 Fifth Third Bank | Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company | Gregory Berman | KeyBanc Capital Markets | Kyle Kuhn | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

Winston & Strawn Adds Thapar as Partner

Winston & Strawn added Sanjay Thapar as a partner in the firm’s New York office and as a member of the transactions department’s finance practice. He will co-chair the global leveraged finance team working within the firm’s finance practice.

August 4, 2022 Adam Foslid | Amy Kearbey | Justin Hoffman | Mats Carlston | Michael Mullins | Sanjay Thapar | Sean Hilson | Tom Fitzgerald | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

Winston & Strawn’s Expanding Miami Office Adds Two Partners

Winston & Strawn added two partners to the firm’s rapidly growing Miami office: Carl A. Fornaris, who joins the Transactions Department, and Jared R. Kessler, who joins the firm’s Litigation Department.

June 30, 2022 Carl A. Fornaris | Claudia Ojeda | Elisa H. Baca | Gabriela A. Plasencia | Jared R. Kessler | Paul W. Jezierny | Tom Fitzgerald | Winston & Strawn Rita Garwood

Regions, UMB, Century & Third Coast Finance Park Energy’s Acquisition of Great Texas Compression

Rock Hill Capital and its portfolio company, Park Energy Services, completed its second acquisition in less than a year with the purchase of substantially all the assets of San Antonio-based Great Texas Compression.

May 23, 2022 Century Bank | Great Texas Compression | Park Energy Services | Regions Bank | Rock Hill Capital | Third Coast Bank SSB | Tim Knox | UMB Bank | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

Winston & Strawn Adds Hilson as Partner in Chicago Office

Winston & Strawn added Sean F. Hilson as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office and as a member of the firm’s corporate practice. Hilson represents private equity sponsors, financial institutions and corporate borrowers in all aspects of debt financing transactions.

May 10, 2022 Cardelle Spangler | Sean F. Hilson | Tom Fitzgerald | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

ION Geophysical Corporation Commences Chapter 11 Process with DIP Financing

ION Geophysical filed for voluntary Chapter 11 relief in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. The company also secured $2.5 million in debtor-in-possession financing.

April 13, 2022 FTI Consulting | ION Geophysical Corporation | Perella Weinberg Partners | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin

Winston & Strawn Names 21 New US Partners

Winston & Strawn promoted 21 attorneys to partner, with 42.8 percent of the new partners women, persons of color and/or from the LGBTQ+ community.

December 8, 2021 Winston & Strawn Phil Neuffer

Shuman Joins Winston & Strawn’s Chicago Office as Partner

Winston & Strawn added corporate counsel Jeffrey R. Shuman as a partner in the firm’s Chicago office and as a member of its capital markets practice. Shuman has focused his practice on meeting the needs of companies across a range of M&A and capital markets transactions.

September 22, 2021 Jeffrey R. Shuman | Linda Coberly | Tom Fitzgerald | Winston & Strawn Ian Koplin