Lukas Kutilek

Mr. Kutilek's experience includes representing:

• Endeavor in its pending US$13 billion sale to Silver Lake
• Vacasa in its US$4.5 billion merger with TPG Pace Solutions
• The Carlyle Group in its take-private acquisition of ManTech International at an enterprise value of approximately US$4.2 billion
• Venture Global in its US$21 billion Plaquemines LNG project financing, consisting of a US$13.2 billion phase one investment and US$7.8 billion phase two investment
• JOANN, a leading national retailer of sewing, arts, and crafts, in its prepackaged chapter 11 restructuring of over US$1 billion of funded debt
• National CineMedia Inc. in the restructuring of National CineMedia LLC through its chapter 11 bankruptcy
• MD Helicopters in connection with its chapter 11 bankruptcy and sale transaction, selected as Distressed M&A Deal of the Year (over US$100M) in the 17th Annual Turnaround Awards
• Robertshaw US Holding Corp. and its US subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases
• The lead arrangers and lenders on the financing for ICON's acquisition of PRA Health Sciences
• The creditors in connection with the US$3.5 billion cross-border chapter 11 case of GTT Communications
• Carlyle in the acquisition of the US$787 million CLO business of CBAM Partners
• Odyssey Investment Partners in the £500 million sale of Tysers to AUB Group Limited
• One Rock in the acquisition of a US$500 million minority stake in Brightview
• Binance.US in the US$500 million sale of Voyager Digital
• Vital Pharmaceuticals in the US$362 million sale of Bang Energy to Monster Beverage
• Shift4 Payments in its US$300 million acquisition of The Giving Block
• Endeavor in its acquisition of 14 MLB Professional Development League Clubs, as well as the creation of Diamond Baseball Holdings
• Hilton Worldwide Holdings in its US$210 million acquisition of Graduate Hotels
• Audacy in a variety of liability management transactions in its chapter 11 case
• Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. in its US$21 billion sale to Analog Devices, Inc.*
• A global pharmaceutical company in its approximately US$13 billion sale of nearly all of its stake in a leading biotechnology company through a registered public offering and related share repurchase and in its up to US$470 million acquisition of Tidal Therapeutics, Inc.*
• A co-investor in an Onex-led US$1.8 billion investment in Convex Group Ltd.*
• A principal shareholder in Telesat Canada in connection with the merger of Loral Space & Communications and Telesat Canada to form a new publicly-traded Telesat Corporation*
• J.Crew Group, Inc. and its debtor-affiliates, one of the nation’s premier clothing retailers with approximately US$2 billion in funded debt and 13,000 employees, in their pre-arranged chapter 11 cases*
• syncreon Group Holdings B.V., and its affiliates, in its groundbreaking, cross-border balance sheet restructuring involving approximately US$1.1 billion of funded debt, effected through the first-ever use of a pre-arranged English scheme to restructure debt issued by a US-based global enterprise, and recognized as the 2020 International Company Transaction of the Year by the Turnaround Management Association*
• The Government of the United Kingdom as part of a 50/50 consortium with Bharti Global Limited in the consortium’s acquisition, in a chapter 11 court-supervised sale process, of OneWeb Global Limited*
• Iron Mountain Incorporated in private offerings aggregating US$3.5 billion pursuant to Rule 144A of senior unsecured notes to repay existing indebtedness*
• The initial purchasers and arrangers in Hellman & Friedman portfolio company Verisure’s €1.6 billion financing consisting of senior secured notes and a senior secured credit facility*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham