• Michael McKay advises clients on a wide range of complex debt financings and related private equity and corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, project financings, private credit, and other strategic and investment transactions. 

    Michael provides legal and transactional advice to a wide range of clients, including banks, institutional and alternative lenders, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, and project developers and their project companies. His work on behalf of these clients includes secured and unsecured domestic and international leveraged financings, acquisition financings, project financings, master limited-partnership financings, syndicated and single-bank credit financings, subordinated loans, unitranche loans, bond financings, asset-based lending, and interest rate derivatives.

    Experience

    • Represented VICI Properties Inc., an NYSE-listed REIT, in its acquisition of the real estate assets associated with Fitz Casino & Hotel and WaterView Casino & Hotel for approximately $293.4 million, and the simultaneous leaseback to subsidiaries of Foundation Gaming and Entertainment, LLC.

    • Represented VICI Properties Inc. (VICI), a NYSE-listed REIT, in its $17.2 billion strategic acquisition of MGM Growth Properties LLC.

    • Advised Waterfall Sentinel Fund in its acquisition of Newcleus LLC, a leading provider of employer-owned life insurance and annuity products (with a core focus on bank and credit union institutions), as well as employee benefit design and analysis, compensation consulting and investment strategies. 

    • Represented Hercules Capital Inc., as administrative agent, collateral agent, sole lead arranger, sole bookrunner and as a lender in connection with an $80 million second-lien term loan facility and a $10 million delayed draw term loan facility to CM 2019 (UK) Limited, Campaign Monitor (UK) Limited and CM Acquisition Holdings Inc.

    • Represented a private equity fund in connection with a $1.175 billion multicurrency, multi-tranche secured financing to finance its purchase of a gas storage business located in the United States and Canada.

    • Represented an international drilling master limited partnership in connection with a $2.9 billion Term Loan B financing secured by multiple ultra-deepwater drilling rigs, drilling contracts and other assets.

    • Represented an infrastructure fund in connection with the secured financing of its $500 million acquisition from a bankrupt entity of a gas-fired power plant located in Texas.

    • Represented a European consortium in connection with the development and financing of the first independent power plant constructed in Sri Lanka.

    • Represented an infrastructure fund as a sponsor in connection with the $2.8 billion equity and debt project financing of an interstate gas pipeline.

    • Represented a master limited partnership in connection with a $1.5 billion secured asset-based revolving credit facility.

    Credentials

    Education

    • J.D., magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center, 1982
      • Notes and Comments Editor, The Georgetown Law Journal
    • A.B., English, magna cum laude, Princeton University, 1978

    Bar Admissions

    • New York, 1983
    • District of Columbia, 1991
    • Connecticut, 2018

    Professional Affiliations

    • American Bar Association, Member Business Law Section
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