Latham & Watkins Advises on Financing of WillScot’s Merger with Mobile Mini
WillScot Corporation and Mobile Mini, Inc. have announced the successful completion of the previously announced merger pursuant to which WillScot, a leading specialty rental services provider of innovative modular space and portable storage solutions across North America, combined with Mobile Mini, a leading provider of portable storage solutions serving customers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. The combined company is named WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp. and its common stock began trading July 2, 2020, on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “WSC.”
Latham & Watkins represented the lenders in providing a US$2.4 billion asset-based credit facility to support WillScot’s merger with Mobile Mini. Latham also represented the initial purchasers in WillScot’s upsized US$650 million senior secured notes offering in connection with the merger.
The Latham team was led by New York finance partners Michèle Penzer and Abhay Lele, with associates Michela Mancini and Matthew Issa, as well as New York capital markets partners Keith Halverstam, Stelios Saffos, and Benjamin Cohen, with associates John Slater, Jonathan Guest, Zoey Wu, and Daniel Walder.