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Shearman & Sterling Advises on Smarte Carte Restructuring
7 Apr 2010
Cynthia Urda Kassis, John M. Sykes III, Chune Loong Lum

Shearman & Sterling represented Smarte Carte, Inc. in the restructuring of its existing senior credit facility (with HSH Nordbank AG, New York Branch, as administrative agent, and National Australia Bank Limited and Macquarie Bank Limited as co-lead arrangers) and its mezzanine credit facility (with AMP Capital Investors Limited, as administrative agent), as well as its entry into a new senior mezzanine credit facility (with Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as administrative agent and arranger).

The Shearman & Sterling team included partners Cynthia Urda Kassis (New York-Finance Group) and John M. Sykes (New York-Tax), associates Thomas A. Day (New York-Tax), Debra Yang (New York-Finance Group), and Chune-Loong Lum (New York-Finance Group) and legal assistant Sunita Daswani (New York-Finance Group).