Christopher Clark

Christopher’s experience includes representing:

Private Equity Sponsors

• The Carlyle Group in various acquisition financings and securities offerings, including the acquisition of Novolex and numerous exit transactions
• Genstar Capital in the first lien secured notes offering to finance the acquisition of M&R Precision Parts
• Leonard Green & Partners and Ares Corporate Opportunity Fund in the second lien secured notes offering to finance the acquisition of Press Ganey
• Onex Corporation in the senior notes offering to finance the carve-out acquisition of Clarivate Analytics from Thomson Reuters

Companies

• Amgen in public offerings of investment grade euro notes and privately placed Swiss franc bonds
• Cogent Communications in various senior notes financings and liability management exercises
• CommScope Holdings in numerous debt financings, including the US$3.8 billion multi-tranche senior notes offering to finance the acquisition of ARRIS International
• CoreSite Realty in multiple privately placed senior notes offerings
• General Motors Financial in more than US$25 billion in investment-grade debt and preferred equity offerings
• IMAX in its premier convertible notes offering
• Liberty Tire in its private exchange offer of second lien secured notes and subsequent sale of the company by The Carlyle Group
• Novolex in connection with the financing for the carveout acquisition of The Waddington Group from Newell Brands
• Switch in its premier high yield bond offering
• Teladoc Health in a number of convertible notes issuances, follow-on equity offerings, and liability management exercises

Investment Banks

• The underwriters in ZoomInfo Technologies’ US$1.1 billion IPO and subsequent follow-on equity and high yield bond offerings
• The underwriters in Certara’s US$768 million IPO and subsequent follow-on offerings
• The initial purchasers in Gogo’s convertible and secured bond offerings and liability management exercises

SPAC Transactions

• Capitol Investment Corp. V in its US$345 million IPO and subsequent merger with Doma Holdings 
• Bird Rides in its merger with Switchback II Corporation
• MarketWise in its merger with Ascendant Digital Acquisition Corp.