John Sobolewski is the Global Chair of Latham’s Liability Management Practice, and the Global Vice Chair of Latham’s Capital Markets Practice.
John represents funds and corporate borrowers in their most complex financing and liability management transactions.
His experience spans the full range of leveraged finance, including liability management and special situations, out-of-court workouts and in-court workouts, hybrid and opportunistic capital, debt capital markets offerings and exchanges, and syndicated and private credit.
He has led many of the largest and most complex liability management exercises seen in the market, and has received numerous recognitions for his work in the field.
John writes frequently on financing and liability management matters, and his work has been published in CFO magazine, Financier Worldwide magazine, the International Comparative Legal Guide, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
He has advised clients across numerous industries, including technology, software, communications, media and entertainment, REITS and real estate, building products, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, retail, education, chemicals, transportation and logistics, and energy.
John’s notable representations both prior to and after joining Latham include:
Leading asset managers and their portfolio companies in numerous financing matters, including Apollo Global Management, The Carlyle Group, CD&R, Centerbridge, King Street, One Rock Capital, Searchlight Capital, Siris Capital, Tiger Global, TPG Angelo Gordon, and Warburg Pincus
Firm’s restructuring and liability management practice advises on two dozen matters selected among the year’s most notable by Turnarounds & Workouts.
The recognition honors a “burgeoning group of specialists [that] reflects the reality of the modern economy” and “find a way forward for companies.”
Annual awards program recognizes “the most influential fund managers and service providers shaping the alternative credit space.”