Claire Solimine represents clients in a variety of complex corporate finance and capital markets transactions.

Claire leverages a sophisticated understanding of the evolving hybrid capital space and extensive experience with bespoke deals to guide private equity sponsors, investors, financial institutions, and investment banks and issuers on:

  • Private credit solutions, including preferred equity and other holdco financings
  • Equity-linked securities offerings, including convertible notes
  • Acquisition financings
  • Secured and unsecured high yield debt offerings
  • Initial public offerings (IPOs) and subsequent equity financings
  • Debt exchange offers and tender offers
  • SEC-related matters, corporate governance, and other general corporate matters

She negotiates and develops creative solutions at the intersection of law and finance for clients’ most complex and nuanced transactions, allowing her clients to achieve their commercial and financial goals at any stage.

While in law school, Claire was a judicial extern for Judge Michael R. Barrett of the Southern District of Ohio.

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

Bar Qualification

  • New York
  • Ohio

Education

  • JD, Vanderbilt University Law School, 2017
  • BA in History, Vanderbilt University, 2011

Languages Spoken

  • English

Practices