Claire Solimine

Claire’s experience includes advising:

Hybrid Capital

• Warburg Pincus on its holdco note and equity investment in Paradigm Oral Health’s Surgeon-Led Buyback
• Ares on its preferred equity investment in connection with Firebird Music’s US$750 million Catalog Acquisition Platform
• HPS Investment Partners and Ares on their respective margin loan transactions and investments in private placement warrants in connection with GMR Solutions’ IPO
• Neuberger Capital Solutions on its structured debt investment in Farsound Aviation
• Carlyle Global Credit on its US$1.3 billion strategic equity investment in Trucordia
• Goldman Sachs Alternatives on its minority equity investment and holdco notes financing in SePRO Corporation
• Carlyle on its structured capital investment in Peloton Computer Enterprises
• Private investors on a preferred equity investment to finance an acquisition by a family-owned multinational conglomerate based in Central America
• Stone Point Capital on its holdco loans investment in a vertical software and payments technology holding company
• Neuberger Berman on its direct growth investment in DISA Global Solutions

IPOs, Subsequent Equity, Equity-Linked and Other Financings

• Allegro MicroSystems on its US$400 million IPO
• The underwriters on Peloton Interactive’s US$1.1 million IPO
• The underwriters on BellRing Brand’s US$550 million IPO
• Wolfspeed on its:
  • Financial restructuring and emergence from chapter 11
  • US$379 million 1.5-lien convertible senior notes offering
• American Airlines on its concurrent US$1 billion senior convertible notes and US$1.1 billion common stock offerings
• Live Nation on various convertible senior notes offering
• Penguin Solutions on various convertible senior notes offerings and other corporate transactions
• Spotify USA on its US$1.3 billion convertible senior notes offering
• AeroVironment on its US$650 million convertible senior notes offering
• GFL Environmental, on various secondary offerings of subordinate voting shares
• The initial purchasers on various senior note offerings for Post Holdings
• The underwriters on Blue Bird Corporation’s common stock offering
• The underwriters on various secondary common stock offerings by National Vision
• The initial purchasers on Vail Resorts’ US$500 million convertible senior notes offering
• The initial purchasers on Cracker Barrel’s US$345 million convertible senior notes offering
• The initial purchasers on Progress Software’s US$450 million convertible senior notes offering
• The initial purchasers on Dick’s Sporting Good’s US$575 million convertible senior notes offering
• The initial purchasers on American Eagle Outfitter’s US$460 million convertible senior notes offering