Susanna M. Suh

PARTNER

Susanna M. Suh has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in loan financings, underwriters and issuers in securities offerings and dealer managers and solicitation agents in tender offers and consent solicitations, in leveraged, distressed, high-grade and cross-over credits. Susanna is named among New York's leading lawyers for her work in bank lending by the IFLR 1000, The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms (2010). Susanna's practice also includes representing companies in the insurance industry in a wide variety of transactional and general corporate work.

Susanna has practiced at Cahill since graduating from Yale Law School, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of International Law. She became a partner in 2003. Susanna is Co-Chair of the Firm's Diversity Committee.

 
Credit Facilities

• Representation of White Birch Paper Company, SP Newsprint Company, Forbes Media LLC, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation and Praxair, Inc. and certain subsidiaries, as borrowers, in connection with various credit facilities aggregating over $4.0 billion.
• Representation of Morgan Stanley Senior Funding in providing $1.375 billion commitment to MSCI Inc. in connection with the pending acquisition of RiskMetrics Group, Inc.
  
• Representation of Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent, under $7.5 billion senior secured term loan facility to CIT Group Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries.
• Representation of J.P. Morgan in providing $3.0 billion bridge commitment to Xerox Corporation in connection with the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
  
• Representation of UBS, Deutsche Bank and the other arrangers in connection with $4.0 billion credit facility to Eli Lilly to fund the acquisition of ImClone Systems.
• Representation of Bank of America and the other arrangers in providing $800.0 million bridge commitment to CenturyTel in connection with its acquisition of Embarq.
• Representation of JPMorgan, UBS and the other arrangers in connection with $6.0 billion credit facilities to International Paper Company to fund the acquisition of the containerboard, packaging and recycling business division of Weyerhaeuser Company.
• Representation of Bank of America in connection with $2.5 billion senior secured bank facilities to CommScope to fund the acquisition of Andrew Corporation.

Securities

• Representation of Bank of America and PNC Bank and their affiliates in connection with bridge commitments to CONSOL Energy to fund the acquisition of certain oil and gas properties from Dominion Resources, Inc., and related stock and notes offerings aggregating over $4.6 billion.
  
• Representation of Banc of America Securities and JPMorgan in connection with senior second lien notes offering by Casella Waste Systems.
• Representation of JPMorgan and Banc of America Securities in connection with $700.0 million senior notes offering by JBS USA.
• Representation of Citigroup and the other underwriters in connection with $450.0 million convertible senior notes offering by D.R. Horton.
  
• Representation of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the other underwriters in notes offering for Scotts Miracle-Gro.
• Representation of GSO Capital Partners in connection with preferred, common and debt investment in a leading retailer.
• Representation of Praxair, Inc. in connection with over $4.3 billion in securities offerings.
• Representation of the underwriters in various notes offerings by International Paper Company aggregating $5.75 billion.

Insurance

• Representation of Ironshore Inc., a Bermuda-based catastrophe property and casualty insurer, in connection with formation and initial capitalization of over $1.0 billion.
• Representation of International Catastrophe Insurance Managers in connection with the sale of controlling interest to Vulcan Capital (Paul Allen investment vehicle).
• Representation of Arch Capital Group Ltd. and its predecessor in (i) sale of prior reinsurance book business to Folksamerica Reinsurance Company, (ii) redomestication to Bermuda, (iii) $760 million equity investment by affiliates of Warburg Pincus and Hellman & Friedman, (iv) various public equity offerings, (v) credit facilities and (vi) $400 million reinsurance joint venture to be formed in the Dubai International Financial Centre with the Gulf Investment Corporation.