Latham Represents Golub Capital in Strategic Growth Equity Investment in Church’s Texas Chicken

Church's Texas Chicken, a global chicken quick service restaurant brand with more than 1,500 restaurants across the US and 25+ international markets, has announced a strategic growth equity investment from Golub Capital. The investment provides Church’s with significant new capital to accelerate its next phase of its growth, building on several years of brand transformation, operational improvement, and record-setting performance across the system.

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Golub Capital in the transaction with a team led by Stelios Saffos, Global Chair of Latham’s Capital Markets and Hybrid Capital Practices, Peter Sluka, Global Co-Chair of the Hybrid Capital Practice, Alfred Xue, Global Vice Chair of the Banking & Private Credit Practice, and John Miller, Global Vice Chair of the Hybrid Capital Practice, with associates Adam Weber, Elina Stavropoulou, and Gordon Wilford. Advice was also provided on tax matters by partner Bora Bozkurt, with associate Farrah Yan.