Paul Thompson

Mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures

• $1.95 billion enterprise value acquisition of AT&T’s wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, counsel to buyer, a leading telecommunications company
• $200.0 million cash-for-shares acquisition of 84% of a leading U.S.-based ice cream ingredients business, counsel to buyer, a Norwegian-based, leading supplier of branded consumer goods
• Formation of a U.S. boxing joint venture between a U.K.-based, leading international direct-to-consumer sports streaming service and a U.K.-based sporting events promoting company
• Formation of a venture between a leading telecommunications company and a private investment firm, counsel to the telecommunications company
• $585.0 million enterprise value acquisition of a Puerto Rico cable operator, counsel to buyer
• $422.0 million share-for-share acquisition of the remaining minority stake in Chilean cable television and mobile telephone companies, counsel to majority shareholder buyer
• Acquisition of sales and marketing rights by a US-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to buyer

Lending transactions

• $200.0 million syndicated senior secured term and revolving credit facilities for a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to obligors
• Asset backed warehouse credit facilities, counsel to borrower and servicer/sponsor
• First and second lien acquisition financing, counsel to buyer/borrower
• U.S. dollar syndicated unsecured term loan facility for Brazilian, Colombian and Uruguayan borrowers, BVI and Mexican guarantors, counsel for obligors
• €130.0 million construction financing and term loan facility for a German borrower, counsel to borrower
• 50.1 billion and 104.9 billion Chilean peso syndicated senior secured credit facilities for a Chilean company borrower, counsel to borrower

Debt capital markets transactions

• £214.4 million private offering of sterling senior secured variable funding notes and subordinated notes, co-counsel to issuer
• $675.0 million, $250.0 million, €500.0 million, $650.0 million, £600.0 million, €950.0 million, $1.35 billion, £235.0 million, and $265.0 million 144A/Reg S offerings of senior secured notes, co-counsel to issuer and guarantor
• £500.0 million private offering of vendor financing notes
• $346.6 million, $356.1 million, $183.5 million, and $254.2 million 144A offerings of various classes equipment lease receivables-backed notes, co-counsel to issuers and servicer/sponsor