Susanna M. Suh

PARTNER

Susanna M. Suh is co-administrative partner of the Firm and is a member of Cahill's corporate practice group. 

Susanna 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 (2012). 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 Bank of America in connection with senior secured first lien term loan and revolver credit facilities aggregating over $12 billion to CIT Group and certain of its subsidiaries.
  
• Representation of PNC Bank and Bank of America in connection with $1.5 billion credit facility to CONSOL Energy and $1.0 billion credit facility to CNX Gas Corporation.
• Representation of Barclays and the other lead arrangers in connection with $1.5 billion credit facilities to Dunkin' Brands.
• Representation of Bank of America and Morgan Stanley in providing credit facilities to EVERTEC.
• Representation of Morgan Stanley in providing $1.375 billion credit facilities to MSCI in connection with the acquisition of RiskMetrics Group.
• Representation of White Birch Paper Company, SP Newsprint Company, Forbes Media, Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation and Praxair and certain subsidiaries, as borrowers, in connection with various credit facilities aggregating over $5.0 billion.
  

Securities

• Representation of UBS in providing $2.2 billion bridge commitments to International Paper in connection with the proposed acquisition (initially hostile) of Temple-Inland.
  
• Representation of Deutsche Bank and Citigroup in providing $2.75 billion bridge commitments to Ensco plc in connection with the acquisition of Pride International, and related notes offering.
• Representation of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the other initial purchasers in $2.0 billion second lien secured notes offering by CIT Group and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in $16 billion exchange offer and consent solicitation by CIT Group. 
• Representation of Bank of America, Barclays Bank and Credit Suisse and their affiliates in connection with $900 million bridge commitments for the leveraged buyout of NBTY, and related notes offering.
• 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, and related stock and notes offerings aggregating over $4.6 billion.
• Representation of JPMorgan in providing $3.0 billion bridge commitments to Xerox Corporation in connection with the acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services.
• Representation of UBS in providing commitments in connection with Veritas' leveraged buyout of CPI International, and related notes offering.
• Representation of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan in connection with senior second lien notes and senior subordinated notes offerings by Casella Waste Systems.
• Representation of Praxair in connection with over $5.0 billion in securities offerings.
• Representation of the underwriters in various notes offerings by International Paper Company aggregating over $7.0 billion.
  

Insurance

• Representation of Ironshore, 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 formed in the Dubai International Financial Centre with the Gulf Investment Corporation.