Victor Chiu’s practice focuses on commercial financing, including specialties in secured transactions and leveraged finance.

Victor joined the firm in 2001, became a senior attorney in 2011, and became counsel in 2025. He also worked in customer business development for Procter & Gamble from 1995 to 1998.

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Notable Experience

  • 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.

  • A Korean conglomerate in the refinancing of its $1.3 billion U.S. and EMEA credit facilities.

  • A private investment fund as lender in a $115 million debtor-in-possession loan facility to an energy company.

  • Axip Energy Services (formerly known as Valerus Compression Services) in financing matters relating to the sale of its international services business and its aftermarket services business.

  • Valerus Compression Services in its refinancing transactions in connection with its sale of Valerus Field Solutions to Kentz Corporation.

  • Warburg Pincus in the financing for its acquisition of Electronic Funds Source.

  • Citibank in certain Japanese hedging and swap arrangements with a U.S. hedge fund.

  • A casino operator in the project financing of a New York casino and subsequent $350 million refinancing of the term loan and revolving credit facilities.

  • OGX in its debtor-in-possession financing.

  • Sabre Inc. in its $2.552 billion senior secured credit facilities.

  • Sabre Inc. in its $350 million incremental senior secured term loan facility.

  • Bausch & Lomb in its $8.7 billion acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.

  • Bausch & Lomb in the repricing and amendment of its senior secured credit facilities.

  • Bausch & Lomb Holdings in its $700 million senior unsecured term loan facility and shareholder dividend.

  • Warburg Pincus in the financing of its acquisition of Crossmark.

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Selected Activities

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  • Member of the Uniform Commercial Law Committee and the Commercial Finance Committee of the American Bar Association Business Law Section; current UCC Committee co-chair of the Joint Task Force of Security Interests in LLC and Other Unincorporated Entity Interests; former Commercial Finance Committee co-chair of the Joint Task Force on Commercial Finance Terms and Online Discussion Forum
  • Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; member of the ABCNY Committee on Commercial and Uniform State Laws
  • Faculty; Financial Institutions, Markets, and Transactions Training Series; 2023

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