Focused on the middle market, the nationwide team at Jones Day is led by New York-based Brett Barragate, whose wide-ranging experience encompasses the issuance of senior subordinated debt facilities, the sale of financial assets and related restructuring and bankruptcy matters. The group, regularly sought out by clients in gaming, energy, automotive, industrials and other sectors, is well-versed in handling acquisition finance, revolving credit facilities, private credit and banking loans and beyond. In Boston, Rachel Rawson advises PE funds and others on LBO financing and other complex financing arrangements, and New York-based Charles Bensinger assists with ABLs, restructurings, and sports franchise and arena financings. Cleveland-based Kevin Samuels focuses on leveraged finance transactions, asset-based financing and cross-border arrangements. In Dallas, John Mazey zeroes in on private credit solutions.
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- The firm delivers exceptional advice to borrowers across complex commercial lending transactions. Their team combines deep market knowledge with a highly pragmatic, business-first approach, consistently anticipating lender concerns while protecting the client’s strategic and commercial objectives. They are responsive, precise, and solutions-oriented, even under compressed timelines and challenging deal dynamics. The lawyers demonstrate outstanding judgment in negotiations and provide clear, actionable guidance that adds real value at every stage of the transaction. Quite simply, they are a trusted partner for sophisticated borrowers navigating high-stakes commercial financings.
Key clients
- ACI Worldwide, Inc.
- Avient Corporation
- Bose Corporation
- Digital Bridge Holdings, LLC
- National Fuel Gas Company
- Parker Hannifin Corporation
- Peabody Corporation
- TopBuild Corporation
- The Sherwin-Williams Company
- TransDigm Group Incorporated
- Verint Systems Inc.
- Wabtec Corporation
Work highlights
Advised ABM Industries Incorporated on an amendment and extension to its existing credit facility with Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, which provides for an aggregate principal amount of commitments under the dollar and multicurrency revolving credit facilities of USD 1.6 billion and an aggregate principal amount of commitments under the term facility of USD 600 million.
Advised Valley Link Transmission Company, LLC on a new USD 300 million credit facility consisting of a USD 180 million revolver and USD 120 million of L/C commitments.
Represented MPE Partners and its portfolio company, Endurance PT Technology Holdings, LLC, in connection with a senior secured credit facility, which financed, in part, the acquisition of Renold plc.
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Practice head
Brett Barragate
Other key lawyers
Rachel Rawson; Charles Bensinger; Kevin Samuels; John Mazey; Brittany DePeder, Christopher Wood; Krista Mancini