Jonathan J. Frankel

PARTNER

Jon is a member of the firm's corporate practice group. His practice is focused on corporate finance and capital markets transactions as well as general corporate and securities advice. Jon has extensive experience with secured lending transactions as well as debt and equity securities offerings. His clients include leading investment banking firms, commercial banks and corporations.

Jon has practiced at Cahill since his graduation from Harvard Law School. He became a partner in 2007 and is a member of the firm's Associate Liaison and Continuing Legal Education Committees.

• Representation of Deutsche Bank and the other lead arrangers in connection with an approximately $1.2 billion senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of The Weather Channel by NBC Universal, Bain and Blackstone.
• Representation of Citigroup and the other lead arrangers in connection with a $4 billion senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of Avaya by TPG and Silver Lake.
• Representation of the bank financing lead arrangers in connection with the terminated buyout of BCE/Bell Canada.
  
• Representation of Citigroup and the other lead arrangers in connection with an approximately $6 billion senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of VNU (owner of AC Nielsen and Billboard magazine) by a sponsor consortium including AlpInvest, Blackstone, The Carlyle Group, Hellman & Friedman, KKR and Thomas H. Lee Partners.
• Representation of Deutsche Bank and the other initial purchasers in connection with simultaneous bond offerings totaling approximately $1.6 billion to finance the acquisition of Michaels Stores (the nation's largest arts and crafts retailer) by Bain and Blackstone.
• Representation of JPMorgan in providing approximately $3.1 billion of bank financing for the acquisition by DaVita Inc. of the renal care business of Gambro Healthcare (creating the largest renal dialysis company in the United States).
• Representation of various underwriters in connection with the initial public offering of Horizon Lines, Inc. as well as three other equity offerings and two bond offerings for Horizon since 2004.
• Representation of Bank of America in connection with a $350 million first lien ABL facility and a $290 million second lien term loan facility to finance the acquisition of Neff Corp. by Lightyear Capital.
• Representation of the underwriters in connection with the 2006 initial public offerings of CPI International, Inc. and PGT, Inc.