Anirudh Sivaram’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, with a focus on complex debt financing transactions.

He advises private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and financial institutions on buyouts and acquisition financing, portfolio company financings, other corporate financing transactions, and sophisticated liability management exercises.

Anirudh also maintains an active pro bono practice and served as counsel to The Nature Conservancy in connection with the launch of a landmark Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiative in Gabon.

Anirudh joined the firm in 2021.

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Notable Experience

Buyouts and M&A Financing: Private Equity Sponsors

  • Warburg Pincus in connection with the financing for numerous acquisition financings, refinancings, and recapitalizations, including Redwood Software, iNRCORE, Exeter Finance, and its proposed acquisition of PANTHERx Rare.

  • Duravant, a Warburg Pincus and The Carlyle Group portfolio company, in connection with the financing for various acquisitions, refinancing, and recapitalizations, including its $230 million acquisition of Matthews Automation Solutions and acquisition of Pattyn Group.

  • Wencor Group, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Aero-Glen.

  • Summit Health-CityMD, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in connection with the financing for its combinations with Westchester Medical Group and New Jersey Urology.

  • Wafra Inc. in connection with the financing for numerous acquisitions, including its acquisition of Hawthorne Aviation.

  • A portfolio company owning and operating U.S. coastal marinas in its $300 million real estate-based senior secured credit facilities.

  • The lenders in connection with the debt financing commitments for Brookfield and its institutional partners to acquire all the assets of Cyxtera Technologies and real estate interests from third-party landlords at which certain of Cyxtera’s U.S. data centers are located.

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Buyouts and M&A Financing: Public Companies and Other Corporate Borrowers

  • Alcoa Corporation in various financing transactions, including the financing for its up to $5.6 billion acquisition of bauxite, alumina, and aluminum assets from South32.

  • Somnigroup in connection with the financing for its $5 billion acquisition of Mattress Firm and its $2.3 billion acquisition of Legget & Platt.

  • Sandisk in various financing transactions, including its $3.5 billion of credit facilities in connection with its separation from Western Digital.

  • Verizon in a variety of financing matters, including its acquisition financing to acquire spectrum.

  • Raizen in the sale of its downstream business to Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. for an estimated total enterprise value of $1.42 billion.

  • Phoenix NAP LLC, a global IT services provider, in the sale of its Phoenix data center and colocation business to RadiusDC.

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Restructuring, Liability Management Exercises, and Capital Solutions

  • The agent for secured creditors of Liberty Communications of Puerto Rico under approximately $3 billion of pre-existing credit facilities in connection with a $250 million dropdown financing transaction and subsequent transactions amending and extending its revolving credit facilities.

  • Goldman Sachs as agent in a $400 mm revolving lending facility with Quest Software in connection with a liability management transaction involving nearly $4 billion in debt.

  • LATAM airlines and its debtor affiliates in its $2.75 billion exit financing.

  • Antalpha, a fintech firm, as lender in a Bitcoin-backed USDT 206 million bridge loan to Nakamoto Holdings Inc., a Bitcoin-treasury subsidiary of Kindly MD Inc.

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Selected Activities

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  • Editor in Chief, Yale Journal of International Law, Yale Law School

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