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Julie Cohen
Director of Marketing and Communications
212.701.3614
jcohen@cahill.com

Cahill Represents Debt Financing Sources in $5.3 Billion Buyout of Del Monte Foods

Date: 03/08/11

Cahill represented JPMorgan Chase Bank as Administrative Agent and J.P. Morgan Securities and Merrill Lynch as lead arrangers, and the other arrangers in connection with $2,700,000,000 of secured credit facilities to partially finance the acquisition of Del Monte Foods Company by a group of private equity firms led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

Cahill also represented the initial purchasers led by Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Barclays Capital, and J.P. Morgan Securities in the $1,300,000,000 Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 7.625% Senior Notes due 2019 by Blue Merger Sub Inc., also in connection with financing the acquisition of Del Monte.

Julie Cohen
Director of Marketing and Communications
212.701.3614
jcohen@cahill.com