Thomas Coverdale

• Warburg Pincus in its flagship oversubscribed Global Growth 14 fund with US$17.3 billion in LP commitments*
• Clearlake Capital Group in its acquisition of Pathway Capital Management, a global provider of private market solutions with over US$95 billion in assets under management across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure mandates*
• P10, a leading private markets solutions provider, in its acquisition of Stellus Capital Management, LLC, a US direct lender specializing in senior secured loans in the lower middle market with over US$10 billion of deployed capital*
• Silver Oak Services Partners in the recapitalization of Smile Partners USA via a single-asset continuation fund*
• A private equity sponsor in a multi-billion dollar complex financial transaction involving a combination of equity and debt investments into multiple structured vehicles collateralized by subordinated notes*
• Maple Park Capital in a warehouse credit facility to fund a majority growth investment in Rita's Italian Ice*
• A private equity sponsor in a US$6 billion umbrella facility*
• A public financial services company in debt and capital-structure considerations in connection with a multi-billion dollar strategic separation*
• Maverick Natural Resources in the issuance of US$640 million of asset-backed securities secured by Maverick's Western Anadarko Basin producing wells as part of a master trust, and in its US$1.3 billion sale to Diversified Energy*
• Denbury Inc. in its US$4.9 billion sale to ExxonMobil, and in various financing arrangements, including the refinancing of its US$1.5 billion revolving credit facility*
• CoreWeave, a specialized cloud provider of large-scale GPU-accelerated workloads, in its $7.5 billion debt facility, at the time the largest private debt financing in the United States*
• Blackstone Inc. in connection with the sale of Lightstone Generation LLC, a portfolio company previously acquired for US$2.1 billion, to Energy Capital Partners*
• KKR in its acquisition of a majority equity stake in Avantus, a premier developer of large utility-scale solar and solar-plus-storage projects, providing US$1 billion+ in equity and debt commitments alongside EIG*
• Energy Impact Partners in its joint venture with OceanSound Partners to acquire Message Broadcast, a provider of customer engagement software for the electric utility industry*
• Rusoro Mining Ltd. in its credit bid for PDV Holding, Inc., the indirect parent company of CITGO Petroleum Corp., a major U.S. refiner valued at US$11-13 billion during the court-supervised sales process*
• Credit facilities financing acquisitions of equity interests in franchises across major U.S. professional sports leagues, including the NBA and MLB*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham