Lucas Balchun represents clients in an extensive range of complex corporate finance, securities regulation, and general securities and corporate matters.
Lucas draws on his extensive experience to advise private equity firms, investment banks, alternative capital sources, and public and private companies on a broad spectrum of financing and other transactions involving:
Debt offerings, including high yield, investment grade, and convertible bond offerings, as well as leveraged buyouts and other acquisition financings
Equity offerings, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, block trades, preferred equity issuances, and other negotiated equity products
Liability management exercises, restructurings, and other special situation transactions
Mezzanine, hybrid, and other private capital financings
Public company representation and corporate governance matters
Experience
Lucas’ experience includes representing:
Paramount Skydance in US$42.4 billion senior secured notes offerings to finance the acquisition of Warner Bros.
The financing sources in Yum! Brands’ US$2.7 billion sale of Pizza Hut to LongRange Capital
Clayton Dubilier & Rice in Multi-Color Corporation’s US$6 billion recapitalization
Paramount Skydance in connection with exchange offers, tender offers, and consent solicitation with respect to US$15 billion of outstanding Warner Bros. notes
Advantage Sales & Marketing in a comprehensive refinancing, with more than 99% participation from existing noteholders in a related exchange offer and consent solicitation
Platinum Equity and Husky Technologies in a US$7.4 billion business combination with CompoSecure
Cox Enterprises in the proposed US$34.5 billion combination of its Cox Communications business with Charter Communications
The Carlyle Group and NEP Group in NEP’s comprehensive refinancing, including US$700 million preferred equity and warrant issuance
TPG Angelo Gordon in its US$1 billion asset-backed term loan facility for an unrestricted subsidiary of Altice USA
SI Group in its notes-for-loans exchange offer
GCM Grosvenor in its merger with CF Finance Acquisition Corp.
Genstar Capital and BBB Industries in the bridge facility and first-lien secured notes offering to finance BBB’s acquisition of M&R Precision Parts
Leonard Green & Partners, Ares Capital Corporation, and The Aspen Group in TAG’s preferred equity financing
The Carlyle Group and SierraCol Energy in SierraCol’s inaugural bond issuance, a concurrent bond issuance and tender offer, and eventual sale to Prime Infrastructure
Blue Road Capital in financing its acquisitions of Keany and NatureSweet
Platinum Equity in various acquisition financings and securities offerings for its portfolio companies, including a continuation fund transaction for United Site Services
One Rock Capital in various acquisition financings, securities offerings, liability management exercises, and other restructuring transactions for its portfolio companies, including BlueTriton Brands’ acquisition of Primo Water
Atotech and Ortho Clinical, portfolio companies of The Carlyle Group, in connection with their respective initial public offerings and subsequent follow-on and secondary offerings
General Motors Financial in more than US$25 billion in investment-grade debt and preferred equity offerings
Teladoc Health in a number of convertible notes issuances and follow-on equity offerings
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
District of Columbia
Maryland
Education
LLM, Georgetown University Law Center, 2016 With Distinction
JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2015 cum laude
Multidisciplinary cross-border team represents the next-generation global media and entertainment company in the combination of two of the world’s most recognizable entertainment companies, forming a single creative powerhouse.
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