• Mark Ramsey brings more than 20 years of experience negotiating complex financing transactions to his work advising both borrowers seeking access to funding in the loan and debt capital markets and leading lenders in the marketplace. Mark’s clients span industries and market sectors, including financial services, health care, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, energy, chemicals and technology. His broad background in financings, debt and equity transactions, credit default swap transactions, private credit, and corporate lending enables him to help clients address and resolve the novel issues and unexpected challenges that often arise in these sophisticated transactions.

    Mark has significant experience advising on secured, unsecured, mezzanine and subordinated syndicated, club and direct lending financing transactions as well as high-yield debt and equity-linked financings, including representing clients in 144A transactions on the indenture side and financing transactions involving convertible notes and warrants. He also guides banks and financial institutions, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and public and private corporations, in strategizing, structuring, negotiating and executing significant refinancing and restructuring transactions, including debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings and exit facilities.

    Experience

    • Represented an American chemical company in a $2.5 billion senior secured recapitalization financing related to the spinoff of its titanium dioxide business.

    • Represented a U.S. drugstore chain in amendment and restatement of its $3.7 billion senior secured revolving credit facility.

    • Represented a U.S. drugstore chain in the documentation of commitment for a $1.8 billion senior unsecured bridge facility for the proposed acquisition of a health care and pharmacy benefit management company

    • Represented a leading global investment manager in a $100 million senior secured credit facility provided to a holding company subsidiary of a top-tier equity sponsor, where the proceeds were used to fund the acquisition of wind and solar energy projects in the United States.

    • Represented an independent investment adviser in senior secured financing for the acquisition of a cable transmission system that connects two East Coast power grids.

    • Represented an investment bank in a $2.775 billion senior unsecured revolving and term loan credit facility for a major industrial REIT.

    • Represented an investment bank in a $1 billion senior unsecured bridge loan facility supporting the merger of a fully integrated residential REIT and a San Francisco-based REIT.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., cum laude, Indiana University, Maurer School of Law, 1998
    • M.S., Spanish linguistics, Georgetown University, 1995
    • B.A., with high distinction, Indiana University, 1993
      • Phi Beta Kappa

    Bar Admissions

    • New York, 2012
    • Illinois, 1998

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