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  • Legacy Reserves Successfully Completes Financial Restructuring
    December 16, 2019
    This facility is led by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Administrative Agent, RBC Capital Markets as Syndication Agent, Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Bookrunner, along with Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BMO Capital Markets Corp., Barclays Bank PLC, BofA Securities, Inc., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., and Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as additional Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners.
  • Business Capital Expands in 2019
    December 16, 2019
    Business Capital (BizCap ®) continued to strengthen its industry presence in 2019, expanding its team of professionals, successfully closing 12 transactions covering a wide range of industries and financial structures with 8 more expected by year end.
  • Tim Wielechowski Joins Lazard’s Middle Market Consumer, Food & Retail Group
    December 12, 2019
    Lazard Ltd (NYSE: LAZ) announced today that Tim Wielechowski has joined Lazard’s Middle Market Consumer, Food & Retail (CFR) group as Managing Director. He is based in Charlotte. Mr. Wielechowski has more than two decades of experience advising middle market private and public companies in the consumer products, retail, and restaurant sectors.
  • Alvarez & Marsal Hires Lisa Price as Managing Director in North American Restructuring & Turnaround Group
    December 12, 2019
    Leading global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) announces Lisa Price has joined A&M as Managing Director in Atlanta in its Restructuring & Turnaround practice. Ms. Price will leverage her wealth of global restructuring and leadership experience to strengthen the firm’s turnaround and restructuring service offerings.
  • TCF Middle Market Banking Provides Secured Financing to Support Legacy Center, LLC
    December 12, 2019
    TCF Middle Market Banking (TCFMMB), a division of TCF National Bank (TCF Bank) which is a subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation (TCF) (NASDAQ: TCF), today announced that it provided secured financing to support Legacy Center, LLC.
  • Newbridge Hires Credit and Underwriting Associate to Support Growth
    December 12, 2019
    Newbridge Global Sourcing (“Newbridge”), a leading alternative capital provider, has hired Sam P. Gilliss, CPA, as an Associate of Credit and Underwriting. He will be responsible for evaluating and underwriting supply chain, receivables, and asset-based lending facilities. Newbridge continues to add talented professionals in order to enable SMEs and large enterprises to grow through unique funding solutions.
  • Pipestone Energy Corp. Announces a $225 Million Syndicated Reserve Based Loan and Achievement of 2019 Exit Production Guidance
    December 12, 2019
    The RBL consists of a $195 million syndicated revolving facility (“Syndicated Facility”) and a $30 million bi-lateral operating facility (“Operating Line”). The Syndicated Facility includes an accordion feature, which provides for a $25 million increase to the borrowing capacity, subject to the mutual consent of its lenders.
  • Think Finance Reorganizes and Exits Bankruptcy Protection
    December 12, 2019
    On December 7, 2019, the business operations of Think Finance, LLC and its subsidiaries emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings as reorganized entities following approval of their joint Chapter 11 plan by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. As part of the ruling, the Think Finance entities resolved all governmental and private lawsuits and claims against them. The reorganized business will operate as new subsidiaries of TF Holdings, Inc.
  • Norsk Hydro: Hydro Signs new USD 1,600 Million Revolving Credit Facility With Margin Linked to Reduction Target for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    December 12, 2019
    DNB Markets, a part of DNB Bank ASA (“DNB”), ING Belgium SA/NV and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ) (“SEB”) acted as Co-ordinating Bookrunners and Mandated Lead Arrangers on the transaction.
  • Maple Leaf Foods Secures First Sustainability-Linked Credit Facility in Canada
    December 11, 2019
    BMO Capital Markets is Sole Bookrunner on the credit facilities and acted as a Sustainability Structuring Agent, working with Maple Leaf Foods to integrate the sustainability targets into the credit facilities. The Co-Lead Arrangers are BMO Capital Markets, Scotiabank, RBC, CIBC, and Rabobank Canada. Four additional lenders participated: Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, National Bank Financial, and Toronto Dominion Bank.
  • Kirkland's Renews Credit Facility
    December 11, 2019
    Kirkland's, Inc. (NASDAQ: KIRK) today announced it has amended and extended its $75 million senior secured credit facility with Bank of America, N.A. The $75 million credit facility, with a maturity date of December 2024, replaces the previous facility that was set to mature in February 2021. The structure and terms of the credit facility are substantially the same as the previous facility.
  • HPD LendScape Acquires Software Consultancy, Finaptix, to Accelerate Global Growth
    December 11, 2019
    Working capital finance software provider, HPD LendScape, has acquired leading software implementation consultancy, Finaptix, in a move to address the asset finance sector, extending its LendScape platform to all forms of secured lending. The deal adds industry experts Steve Taplin and Michael Mayes to the executive team that includes Kevin Day, CEO, along with Andrea Cole, previously Product Director of LendScape. Together they will support the company’s further expansion and rounds off a year which saw personnel increase by 19%.
  • Republic Provides a $6.5 Million Facility to a Gulf Coast-based Food Manufacturing Company
    December 11, 2019
    Republic partnered with an investment bank to provide a ledgered receivables line of credit to support exponential growth.
  • Winter Harbor Adds Jim Whitney to Restructuring and Turnaround Team
    December 11, 2019
    Winter Harbor LLC, a restructuring and turnaround advisory firm, is pleased to announce the addition of Jim Whitney to their team as a managing director. Jim brings forth more than 25 years of financial advisory, restructuring, and turnaround expertise to large and middle-market companies and their stakeholders.
  • CIT Provides $36.2 Million for Acquisition of Plano Office Building
    December 11, 2019
    CIT Group Inc. (NYSE: CIT) today announced that its Real Estate Finance unit provided $36.2 million in financing for the acquisition of Park Center, a 97% leased, multi-tenant office building in Plano, Texas. Park Center, which was acquired by an affiliate of Innovatus Capital Partners LLC, is a five-story, Class A office building located at 2400 Dallas Parkway that encompasses approximately 236,000 square feet of rentable space.
  • ToneyKorf Partners named Turnaround Consulting Firm of the Year and recognized for the Out-of-Court Restructuring of the Year by The M&A Advisor
    December 11, 2019
    The M&A Advisor announced the winners of the 14th Annual Turnaround Awards on December 10, 2019. ToneyKorf Partners, LLC was named the Turnaround Consulting Firm of the Year and also recognized with an award for the Out-of-Court Restructuring of the Year ($10MM to $100MM) for the acquisition of Milford Hospital by Yale New Haven Health. The awards will be presented at a Black Tie Gala on March 18, 2020, at The Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, FL.
  • Huntington Business Credit Closes new $26,400,000 in Credit Facilities with Chandler Industries
    December 11, 2019
    Chandler Industries, Inc. is a portfolio investment of Arch Equity Partners located in St Louis, Missouri. Proceeds of the facilities were used to repurchase stock, provide for a dividend, refinance existing debt and ongoing working capital financing.
  • Axiom Bank Hires New VP, Commercial Team Lead
    December 11, 2019
    Axiom Bank N.A., a Maitland-based, leading community bank, recently hired Amy Carlson as VP, Commercial Team Lead. In this role, Carlson will work with Axiom’s commercial clients throughout Central Florida to help them achieve their business goals.
  • Telesat Canada Announces Closing of Its Secured Notes Offering and Credit Facility Refinancing Transaction
    December 11, 2019
    The amended credit agreement provides for a new term loan facility of US$1.909 billion and a new revolving credit facility with commitments ofUS$200 million (together, the “Senior Credit Facilities”), which replaced the existing term loan and revolving facilities. The revolving credit facility is currently undrawn. JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A. (“JP Morgan”) is acting as administrative agent and collateral agent with respect to the Senior Credit Facilities.
  • Concord Serves As Exclusive Financial Advisor and Arranges $20MM in Senior Debt
    December 10, 2019
    The client is a luxury jewelry retailer based in the Northeastern U.S. The financing arranged consisted of a $20 million senior secured revolving line of credit.
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