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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s broad practice encompasses high-yield debt offerings, mezzanine capital investments, second-lien financings, and syndicated bank loans. The practice is headed by Jeffrey Ross, who operates out of New York, and his key strengths lie in acquisition financing and leveraged financing. Scott Selinger is experienced in financing surrounding investments and restructuring, as well as syndicated bank loans and high-yield bond transactions. Ramya Tiller is a key port of call for insurance companies on an array of financing matters, and she is notably experienced in NAV facilities, leveraged transactions, and fund finance transactions. Ryan Rafferty counts private equity firm, debt investors, and corporate entities on his client roster. Other key members of the team include Brett Novick, who is skilled at structured finance transactions. All lawyers mentioned are in New YOrk.
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Scott Selinger is a corporate partner based in the New York office. Mr. Selinger is a member of the firm’s Finance, Private Equity, Restructuring and Special Situations Groups, and focuses his practice on complex acquisition and leveraged finance transactions.
He has extensive experience in syndicated bank loan and high-yield bond transactions. Mr. Selinger regularly advises the firm’s private equity and corporate clients in connection with the financing of acquisitions, investments and restructurings, including the $5 billion merger of Brand Energy and Infrastructure Services and Safway Group by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice and Brand Energy, the $2.5 billion acquisition of HD Supply’s Waterworks Division by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the $2.73 billion acquisition of Local TV Holdings by Tribune Company, the $1.835 billion acquisition of Fidelity & Guaranty Life by The CF Corporation and The Blackstone Group, and the $3.2 billion acquisition of Emergency Medical Services Corporation by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
Mr. Selinger joined the firm in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Selinger was an associate at a New York-based international law firm where he represented financing sources in numerous transactions, including the leveraged buyouts of TXU, First Data and U.S. Foodservice and the acquisition of Procter and Gamble’s prescription drug business by Warner Chilcott.
Mr. Selinger is an editor and a contributing author of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report and is the co-author of “International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance 2020: Liability Management,” International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance 2020 (April, 2020); “Debt Retirement in Leveraged Financings,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance (April, 2017); “Alternative Leveraged Lending Structures And Limitations,” Law360 (June, 2015); “United States: Everything Old Is New Again: PIK Notes,” Mondaq (February, 2015); “SunGard 2.0,” The M&A Lawyer (May, 2014); “Del Monte: Staple Remover?,” The Deal Pipeline (2012) and “Some Pitfalls In Financial Carve-Outs,” The Deal (2012).
Mr. Selinger graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2006. While at Brooklyn Law School, he was a member of the Journal of Law and Policy and served on the planning board for the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law. Mr. Selinger is currently a member of the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Association’s Board of Trustees and has previously served as a Recent Graduate Trustee on the Brooklyn Law School’s Board of Trustees. He received a B.A. from Brandeis University in 2003.
Mr. Selinger is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.
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Key clients
- Access Holdings Aludyne Ambac Financial Group American Greetings Antares Artera Services Astra Capital Management Blackstone Group Booz Allen Hamilton BradyPLUS BrandSafway Carestream Carlyle Group Cerberus Capital Management Citrix Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Cloudera Cornerstone Building Brands CPPIB Cyanco DoubleVerify EMTEC Epicor Software Corporate Evergreen Coast Capital Elliott Management First Reserve Five Arrows Focus Financial Fortitude Re Gentiva Gogo HarbourVest Indicor Inovar Packaging Group International Paper J.S. Held Kelso & Company KKR LABL Oaktree Capital Management OneOncology Mercury Systems Morgan Stanley Investment Management Providence Equity Pursuit Aerospace RSC Insurance Brokerage Redwood Services S&S Activewear Savant Capital Sharp Services Shearer’s Foods SiteOne Landscape Supply Stone Point Capital SunSource Sylvamo Syniverse Holdings TIH Insurance TowerBrook Capital Partners TPG Velocity Risk Underwriters Veritiv Verizon Communications Vialto Partners Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Music Group Wellspring Capital Management Windstream Holdings White Cap Supply
Work highlights
Advising Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on the financing aspects of its acquisition of R1 RCM Inc. (NASDAQ: RCM) at an enterprise value of $8.9 billion.
Advising Verizon Communications on its $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications Parent.
Advised Clayton, Dubilier & Rice on the financing aspects of its acquisition of Truist Insurance Holdings (“TIH”), a subsidiary of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC), at an enterprise value of $15.5 billion.