Samuel D. Rettew

Samuel’s experience includes advising:

LBOs and Debt Transactions

• 2U on a US$250 million financing provided by a direct lending institution in connection with the acquisition of Trilogy Education
• BigCommerce Holdings, a leading open SaaS ecommerce platform, on its offering of US$300 million convertible senior notes
• Bridgepoint Advisers on a US$400 million financing transaction related to an investment in Kyriba Corp. 
• Carlyle on a:
  • US$1 billion senior notes offering in connection with its US$9.2 billion acquisition, including committed acquisition financing, of Akzo Nobel’s specialty chemicals business
  • US$425 million senior notes offering in connection with its US$3.2 billion acquisition, including committed acquisition financing, of Atotech, as well as Atotech’s subsequent US$300 million PIK notes offering
• CONSOL Energy on various transactions, including US$500 million and US$1.6 billion senior notes offerings 
• The initial purchasers on CPG International’s US$350 million senior notes offering, one of the first high yield offerings to feature a COVID-specific EBITDA adjustment (Ares portfolio company)
• Host Hotels & Resorts on its US$150 million Series I senior notes offering of green bonds
• The initial purchasers on Jeld‑Wen’s US$250 million senior secured first lien notes offering (Onex portfolio company)
• A special purpose acquisition vehicle on acquisition financing and issuance of US$475 million senior secured second lien notes related to Nesco Holdings I’s merger with and into publicly traded special purpose acquisition vehicle 
• The initial purchasers on Six Flags Theme Parks’ US$725 million senior secured first lien notes offering

Equity Offerings and IPOs

• Atotech, a specialty chemicals company, on the sponsor-backed IPO of a foreign private issuer (Carlyle portfolio company)
• The underwriters on the sponsor-backed US$765 million IPO for building products company The AZEK Company (Ares portfolio company)
• The underwriters on a series of equity offerings totaling more than US$2 billion by PRA Health Sciences (former KKR portfolio company)
• The underwriters on Jeld-Wen’s US$575 million IPO of common stock, as well as in subsequent secondary offerings totaling approximately US$800 million (Onex portfolio company)
• PennTex Midstream Partners on its US$225 million IPO of common units   

Liability Management

• The Carlyle Group on an exchange offer and consent solicitation related to Sequa’s outstanding senior notes as part of a prepackaged plan of reorganization
• Hornbeck Offshore Service on debt restructuring and exchange offer of credit facility borrowings for new credit facility borrowings
• Niska Gas Storage Partners on a private exchange offer of outstanding senior notes, including drafting and negotiating exchange documentation and a promissory note reflecting the terms of the new debt
• SM Energy on an exchange offer and consent solicitation related to five series of its outstanding senior unsecured notes, totaling approximately US$2.5 billion, and its issuance of new secured exchange notes