Gus Atiyah is a Lead Industry Coordinator for Private Capital, Finance Team Leader and a partner in the Finance practice.

He focuses his practice on all aspects of private finance transactions, including leveraged financing transactions ranging from syndicated senior facilities, second-lien facilities, leveraged buyouts and debt restructurings to recapitalizations and debt investments. He also assists equity and debt funds in raising fund-level financings.

Gus represents private equity sponsors, financial institutions, hedge funds, debt funds, sovereign wealth funds, and public and private companies, and his clients include Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division, Marcus by Goldman Sachs, New Mountain Capital, Symphony Technology Group, Vector Capital, Mubadala, Fidelity Investments, CVS Health, CSW Industrials, Quest Diagnostics, Valvoline, Blue Yonder, Tudor Investment Corporation, Maverick Capital, and certain Middle Eastern family offices.

PRIVATE EQUITY/PRIVATE CAPITAL

• Cantor Commercial Real Estate in connection with numerous warehouse repurchase facilities.
• CITIC Capital, in connection with the acquisition financing of DDS Labs.
• Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and AAG Holding III, LLC and Apple American Group LLC, as borrowers, in a $250 million acquisition financing led by Bank of America, as lender and agent.
• Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Hawker Beechcraft in connection with financings and other related matters relating to a $1.7 billion credit facility led by Credit Suisse, as agent and lender.
• Mubadala Capital in connection with structuring, negotiating and documenting financings for new unitranche loan platforms.
• New Mountain Capital and JDA Software Group, Inc. in connection with a $1.45 billion recapitalization transaction.
• New Mountain Capital and RedPrairie Corporation, as borrower, in connection with a $1.55 billion acquisition financing for the tender offer of shares of JDA Software Group, Inc. and numerous related follow-on financings.
• New Mountain Capital and Information Resources, Inc., in connection with a $400 million acquisition financing led by Bank of America, as agent and lender. Numerous follow-on financings and refinancings for Information Resources, Inc.
• Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corp., in connection with a financing led by PNC Bank, as agent and lender.
• Goldman Sachs Capital Partners and Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corp. in connection with a senior unitranche financing arranged by Brightwood Loan Services LLC and KeyBank National Association.
• KKR Debt Funds in connection with a highly structured $130 million debt investment in Eddie Bauer, consisting of a $40 million second lien financing and a $90 million springing 2nd lien unsecured financing.
• Fidelity Investments as an investor and holder of debt securities in connection with numerous companies and restructuring situations.
• Lee Equity Partners in connection with the take-private acquisition financing for The Edelman Financial Group Inc., consisting of a senior secured credit facility and a million senior subordinated loan facility.
• Lee Equity Partners and The Edelman Financial Group Inc. and its affiliates as borrowers in a dividend recapitalization transaction to provide for credit facilities consisting of a term loan facility (split between two tranches) and a million revolving credit loan facility arranged by Fortress Credit Corp.
• Symphony Technology Group and First Advantage Corporation in connection with a dividend recapitalization consisting of a $535 million first lien credit facility led by Bank of America and a $150 million second lien credit facility led by Tennebaum Capital Partners.
• Symphony Technology Group and MSC Software Corporation, in connection with MSC Software Corporation’s $315 million first lien credit facility and $120 million second lien financing.
• Symphony Technology Group in connection with the acquisition financing of Ventiv Technology, the company formerly known as Aon eSolutions.
• Symphony Technology Group and Symphony Teleca Corporation, an STG portfolio company, as borrower, in connection with its $125 million credit facility and the acquisition financing of Aditi Technologies.
• Symphony Technology Group, Inc. and Dodge Data & Analytics LLC, in connection with its $240 million term loan facility and a $20 million credit facility.
• Vector Capital in connection with the financing for the acquisition of Allegro Development Corporation
• Vector Capital and SafeNet, in SafeNet’s $255 million dividend recapitalization of its first and second lien credit facilities arranged by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
• Vector Capital in connection with its acquisition financing of Saba Software, Inc., involving a $185 million secured opco credit facility and senior holdco PIK financing.
• Vector Capital in connection with the $375 million recapitalization and acquisition financing for the take private acquisition of Halogen Software, Inc.
• Vector Capital in connection with the acquisition financing of Allegro Development Corporation.

CORPORATES

• Boulder Brands, Inc., in connection with a $280 million credit facility led by Bank of Montreal.
• Boulder Brands, Inc., in connection with a $330 million credit facility led by Citibank.
• Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. in connection with its ABL and Term Loan credit facilities
• CVS Health Corp. as borrower in connection with a $1.25 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility arranged by The Bank of New York Mellon, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
• CVS Health Corp. as borrower in connection with a 5-year $1 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility arranged by The Bank of New York Mellon, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
• CVS Health Corp. as borrower in connection with a $1.00 billion senior unsecured revolving credit facility arranged by The Bank of New York Mellon, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
• CVS Health Corp., as borrower, in connection with a $13 billion bridge financing in connection with the acquisition of Omnicare, Inc.
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and an affiliated real estate debt fund, in connection with a multi-hundred million dollar warehouse repurchase facility provided by Wells Fargo.
• APP Pharmaceuticals LLP in connection with a $1.145 billion financing led by Deutsche Bank in connection with a spin-off from Abraxis Bioscience.
• Rio Tinto plc and Cloud Peak Inc. in connection with a $400 million financing led by Morgan Stanley in connection with a spin-off of Cloud Peak, Inc. in an initial public offering from Rio Tinto plc.
• Humana in connection with a $1 million revolving credit facility led by JP Morgan.
• Legg Mason, Inc. in connection with its corporate credit facilities.
• Navios Maritime Holdings Inc. in connection with numerous financings, including secured high yield bond issuances and secured term facilities.
• Salesforce.com, in connection with its $1 billion corporate revolver.
• Salesforce.com, in connection with the $500 million term loan facility to finance the tender offer for Demandware, Inc.’s shares.
• Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores, Inc., in connection with its ABL financing.
• WebMD Corporation, in connection with the tender offer by Internet Brands, Inc., a KKR portfolio company, for the shares of WebMD Corporation.

Awards & Accolades

• Gus is consistently recognized by The Legal 500 United States, which notes that he is “extremely responsive and very thoughtful” and “always eager to assist.