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Maura
E.
O'Sullivan
Partner
Education
Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 1985, Business Editor, The Urban Law Journal
College of The Holy Cross, B.A., 1982
Practice
Maura O’Sullivan, a partner in the Finance Group, has extensive experience in representing financial advisors, lenders and borrowers in various financings, with a particular emphasis on acquisition financings, leveraged lending, restructurings and asset-based finance. Ms. O’Sullivan joined the firm in 1985 and became a partner in 1999. She is ranked a leading lawyer in banking and finance by Chambers USA, IFLR 1000 and PLC Which Lawyer?. She was also shortlisted for “Finance Lawyer of the Year” (2012) by Chambers USA Women in Law Awards.
Experience
- Barclays Bank PLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint global coordinators, mandated lead arrangers and bookrunners in connection with a cross-border, multicurrency and covenant-lite Term Loan B bank financing consisting of a $2 billion term loan facility, a $375 million short-dated term loan facility and a €500 million term loan facility for certain affiliates of INEOS AG, one of the world's largest chemical companies
- Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. as sole lead arranger and as a joint bookrunner in connection with an amendment and extension of HUB International Limited's senior secured term and revolving credit facilities
- Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and RBC Capital Markets as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners in connection with a $190 million refinancing for Proquest LLC, which consisted of a senior secured term facility and a revolving credit facility
- Boston Scientific Corporation as borrower under a $2 billion five-year revolving credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Goldman Sachs Bank USA as joint lead arrangers in connection with a $1.6 billion senior secured refinancing for LPL Holdings, Inc.
- BNP Paribas Securities Corp., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and The Bank Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. as joint lead arrangers and joint book managers in connection with a $5 billion 364-day credit facility for Toyota Motor Credit Corporation and some of its affiliates
- Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc. as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner in connection with a $700 million financing for Neustar, Inc.’s acquisition of TARGUS Information Corporation and ongoing general corporate needs
- Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. as joint lead arrangers, joint bookrunners and co-syndication agents of a $310 million first lien and $140 million second lien financing for Alkermes, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Elan Drug Technologies, a unit of Elan Corporation, plc
- Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and The Bank of Nova Scotia as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunning managers in connection with a $500 million senior secured refinancing for The Kansas City Southern Railway Company
- Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, of a $1.05 billion term loan financing for The AES Corporation
- Bank of America, N.A. as administrative agent and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated as sole lead arranger in connection with a $325 million amended and restated term loan facility for Western Refining, Inc.
- Citigroup Global Markets Inc. as a lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with a $2 billion three-year revolving credit facility for International Lease Finance Corporation
- BE Aerospace, Inc. as borrower under a $750 million amended and restated senior secured financing revolving credit facility agented by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
- The lead arrangers in connection with a $2.08 billion exit financing for Dana Corporation
- B/E Aerospace in connection with its $875 million senior secured financing incurred in connection with its acquisition of Honeywell International’s Aerospace Consumables Business
- The lead arranger in connection with a $37.1 million debtor-in-possession financing for Chesapeake Corporation
- The lead arrangers in connection with (i) the $6.75 billion senior unsecured bridge financing for TXU Energy and (ii) the $4.5 billion senior unsecured bridge financing for TXU Corp., each of which was in respect of the acquisition of TXU Corp. by an investor group led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Texas Pacific Group and an affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co.
- The lead arrangers in connection with an $865 million secured financing used by Apax Partners to fund its acquisition of Hub International Limited
- The special committee of the board of directors of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. in its sale to an affiliate of Bain Capital Partners, LLC
- The lead arrangers in connection with a $760 million senior secured financing for affiliates of Hellman & Friedman LLC in connection with its $1.7 billion acquisition of Catalina Marketing Corporation
- Morgan Stanley Private Equity in connection with the $217 million first lien financing and the $47 million second lien financing for its acquisition (through an affiliate) of Tops Markets, LLC
- Boston Scientific Corporation in its $14 billion senior and interim financing in respect of its unsolicited $27 billion acquisition of Guidant Corporation
- The lead arrangers in connection with the $5.5 billion senior financing and the $5.35 billion bridge financing in connection with the acquisition by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Dune Capital Management, L.P. and Five Mile Capital Partners LLC of GMAC Commercial Holding Corp.
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
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