Douglas S. Horowitz

PARTNER

Doug is chairman of Cahill's Legal Recruiting Committee and member of its corporate practice group.

Doug represents leading investment banking firms, commercial banks and public and private corporations with a focus on leveraged finance transactions involving both new issuance of secured and unsecured high-yield debt securities, syndicated institutional loans and asset based loans as well as out-of-court restructurings. He has represented the financing sources in a number of recent acquisitions, including the recently completed $7.2 billion acquisition of Samson Investment by KKR and other investors, the pending acquisition by Datatel of SunGard's Higher Education Business and the completed leveraged buyouts of TransUnion and CommScope and several of the landmark acquisitions of the LBO boom, including hospital-operator HCA, SunGard Data Systems, VNU / Nielsen, ARAMARK, Cengage Learning, U.S. Foodservice, Biomet, Avaya and TXU Corp. He has also represented corporations, leading investment banks and financial advisors in connection with several completed and pending IPOs, debt refinancings and comprehensive out-of-court debt restructurings.

Doug works on both the high-yield bond and bank sides of acquisition financings and refinancings and has practiced in a variety of industries such as technology, media, telecommunications, automotive, healthcare, and natural resources.

In 2011, Doug was named among the country's leading finance lawyers by Chambers USA and Euromoney's IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms. In addition, in 2010, Doug was recognized as one of Law 360's ten "Rising Legal Stars under 40" in the area of corporate finance.

• Representation of J.P.Morgan, Citi and other commercial banks in providing various debt financings for the $45 billion acquisition of TXU Corp. by KKR and TPG.
• Representation of Deutsche Bank and other investment banks in providing $3.0 billion of high-yield debt securities financing for the acquisition of SunGard Data Systems Inc. by a consortium of private equity firms and recent $1.6 billion partial refinancing.
• Representation of Bank of America and other commercial banks in providing a $2.0 billion asset based loan as part of the financing for the acquisition of HCA, Inc. by a consortium of private equity firms and recent $2.5 billion replacement facility.
• Representation of J.P.Morgan, Morgan Stanley and the other underwriters in connection with the approximately $1.9 billion initial public offering of Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYSE: NLSN).
  
• Representation of J.P.Morgan as dealer manager, solicitation agent and initial purchaser in connection with facilitating a negotiated out-of-court restructuring of American Media, Inc. and subsequent loan and high-yield bond financing in connection with AMI's emergence from bankruptcy.
  
• Representation of J.P.Morgan and other investment banks as initial purchasers for over $1.6 billion high-yield securities for CDW.
• Representation of Bank of America and other commercial banks in providing $720 million of senior secured credit facilities for the acquisition of DynCorp International Inc. by Cerebus.
• Representation of J.P.Morgan and other investment banks in providing over $1.5 billion of high-yield debt securities financing and $1.0 billion of senior secured term loan financing for the acquisition of CommScope, Inc. by The Carlyle Group.
• Representation of the various underwriters for eight debt securities offerings by Xerox Corporation, together generating over $5.9 billion of proceeds.
• Representation of TriMas Corporation (NYSE:TRS) in connection with its initial public offering of common stock.
• Representation of J.P.Morgan and Morgan Stanley as dealer managers in connection with a debt-for-debt exchange offer and subsequent debt tender for NXP B.V. that reduced NXP's debt by approximately $969 million.
• Representation of Bank of America and other commercial banks in providing a multi-currency asset based loan of $1.35 billion for the acquisition of Ryerson Inc. by Platinum Equity.

Doug became a partner in 2007.