Scott Welkis

Scott advises and represents capital providers — banks and traditional financial institutions, and established and emerging alternative capital sources, including credit funds, hedge funds and distressed investors — in the origination and structuring of a wide spectrum of corporate debt financings, including senior, subordinated and unsecured financings, leveraged loans, and asset-based loans. In one notable transaction, Scott advised a leading global investment management firm in the creation of a bespoke loan that involved the configuring of a situation-specific collateral structure made necessary by the borrower’s existing financing arrangements, as well as restructuring and make-whole considerations, and protracted negotiations with the company and its counsel, to arrive at a financing solution meeting the parties’ immediate and future objectives.

On the borrower’s side of the table, Scott guides private and public companies, including post-restructured companies, in structuring and executing financing transactions for their short- and long-term capital needs, including new money financings, rescue loan transactions and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings. He advises companies throughout the debt life cycle, navigating them through financial challenges, restructurings and other distressed situations that frequently include complex intercreditor issues and governance concerns. Scott recently represented a post-restructured company in both a leveraged dividend loan transaction and a subsequent out-of-court debt-to-equity exchange.