Adam M. Dworkin
Partner
212.701.3131
adworkin@cahill.com
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Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
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New York, NY 10005
Practices
Education
- George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1995
- Binghamton University, B.A., 1992
Admission
- New York
Adam Dworkin is a member of Cahill’s Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department.
He focuses his practice in leveraged finance, representing arrangers and other lenders in bank financings and high-yield offerings in the context of acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancings, and restructurings.
Adam has over 30 years of experience advising commercial and investment banks and private credit lenders in leveraged finance, including in acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, recapitalizations, bridge lending and loan commitments, out-of-court debt restructurings, and other secured and unsecured lending transactions. He has worked on some of the largest and most complex leveraged finance transactions, including Dell’s acquisition of EMC and the LBO of HCA.
Adam also represents several companies as borrowers under secured credit facilities and as issuers of high-yield bonds. He practices in a variety of industries including technology, communications, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, media, retail, financial institutions and transportation.
“Adam always approaches deals with a client mindset and understands how to protect client interests while advancing their long term commercial interests.” – Chambers USA
Adam has consistently been ranked for New York Banking & Finance by Chambers USA, with clients noting that he is “fantastic,” “highly constructive and efficient,” and “very knowledgeable with regards to leveraged finance.” Adam is also recognized as a leading banking and finance lawyer by Chambers Global, The Legal 500, IFLR1000,and Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Dealmakers in America guide.
- Lead arrangers in $23.775 billion of bank financing that backed the landmark acquisition of EMC Corporation by Dell Inc.
- Debt financing sources in $5 billion of debt financings, consisting of a $750 million notes offering and $4.3 billion in credit facilities for Central Parent and Central Merger Sub Inc., and CDK Global, Inc., for the acquisition of CDK Global.
- Lead arrangers in a $1.06 million US dollar denominated Term B credit facility and a €982 million Euro denominated Term B credit facility for DexKo Global Inc. for the leveraged buyout of DexKo Global Holdings Inc. by Brookfield Capital Partners LLC.
- Debt financing sources in $6.7 billion of credit facilities and senior secured notes offerings for DIRECTV Financing, LLC for the repayment of intercompany debt and the payment of transaction expenses in the separation of DIRECTV from AT&T Inc.
- Initial purchasers in a Rule 144A offering of $300 million sustainability-linked senior notes by Covert Mergeco, Inc., that was merged with and into Covanta Holding Corporation, to fund the acquisition by EQT Infrastructure V fund of Covanta Holding Corporation.
- ICON in approximately $6.3 billion of debt financings for the acquisition of PRA Health Sciences, Inc.
- Credit Suisse and the other lead arrangers in the $4.25 billion multicurrency credit facility for the buyout of BMC Software by a private investor group led by Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital.
- Lead joint book-running managers and the co-managers in the $1.5 billion first lien notes offering by Dell, Inc. to partially fund the buyout of Dell by Michael Dell and Silver Lake Management LLC.
- Lead arrangers in the $1.349 billion credit facility to partially finance the acquisition of Emdeon Inc. by The Blackstone Group.
- P. Morgan and the other lead arrangers in the $2.7 billion 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.
- Lead arranger in the $1.49 billion bank financing for the acquisition of Interactive Data Corporation by affiliates of Silver Lake Partners and Warburg Pincus LLC.
- Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and the other lead arrangers in the $600 million bank financing for the acquisition of inVentiv Health, Inc. by an affiliate of Thomas H. Lee Partners.
- P. Morgan, Citi, and Morgan Stanley as joint book-running managers in the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $550 million aggregate principal amount of 8.25% senior notes due 2019 by Kindred Healthcare, Inc. to partially fund the acquisition of RehabCare Group, Inc. by Kindred Healthcare, Inc.
- Deutsche Bank as lead arranger for a $1.2 billion bank financing for the acquisition of The Weather Channel by affiliates of Bain, Blackstone, and NBC Universal.
- J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, and other commercial banks in over $13.5 billion bank financing for the acquisition of HCA, Inc. by affiliates KKR and Bain.