Shih, Jonathan C.

Jonathan C. Shih

Counsel

jonathan.shih@lw.com
    Shih, Jonathan C.

    Jonathan C. Shih

    Counsel

    jonathan.shih@lw.com

    Profile

    Jonathan Shih advises private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on commercial lending transactions.

    Jonathan represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies as well as private and public company borrowers in a variety of domestic and cross-border commercial lending transactions. He regularly advises on:

    • Asset-based and cash flow credit facilities
    • Acquisition financings
    • Syndicated and direct lending facilities
    • First, second, and split lien financings

    Jonathan provides clients with ongoing guidance regarding covenant compliance issues, incremental credit facilities, and amendments and waivers. He draws on extensive experience to explain and interpret complex terms in a business context to help clients negotiate financing terms that take into account the intricacies and nuances of their business and provide operational flexibility.

    Complementing his commercial work, Jonathan serves on the pro bono advisory council for Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California and served as a Global Leader of Latham’s Asian & Middle Eastern Lawyers Group.

    During law school Jonathan served as a senior editor on the Southern California Law Review and as a judicial extern to Judge Consuelo B. Marshall in the US District Court for the Central District of California.

    Experience

    Jonathan’s representative experience includes advising:

    • Mattel on its cross-border asset-based revolving credit facilities and cash-flow revolving credit facilities
    • Ares Capital Corporation on its asset-based revolving credit facilities
    • Motorcar Parts of America on its cross-border asset-based revolving and term loan credit facilities
    • CalAmp on its asset-based revolving credit facilities
    • A global apparel retailer on its cross-border asset-based revolving credit facilities
    • HIG Capital on asset-based revolving and term loan credit facilities for a home textiles company
    • Behrman Capital on asset-based revolving and first and second lien term loan credit facilities for a manufacturer of protective cases, coolers, and lighting systems
    • Energy Capital Partners on asset-based revolving credit facilities for a fuel distribution business
    • Quantum Corporation on its asset-based revolving and term loan credit facilities
    • Wynn Resorts on its revolving and term loan credit facilities
    • Houlihan Lokey on its revolving credit facilities
    • Extreme Networks, Inc. on its revolving and term loan credit facilities
    • Leonard Green on its acquisition of the Wrench Group and negotiation of its first and second lien revolving and term loan credit facilities
    • The Carlyle Group on revolving and term loan credit facilities for an entertainment-focused investment company

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, University of Southern California, 2012
    • BS, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, 2005

    Languages Spoken

    • Chinese (Mandarin)

    Practices

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