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Christopher Butler
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Banking & Finance
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About
Provided by Christopher Butler
Practice Areas
Christopher concentrates his practice on financing transactions with an emphasis on acquisitions and highly leveraged financings. He represents borrowers and lenders in structuring secured and unsecured lending transactions, LBO and acquisition financings, first and second lien financings, subordinated debt transactions, mezzanine and other private debt issuances and DIP financings. Clients have included financial sponsors Bain Capital, Centerbridge Partners, GTCR, Bansk Group, Summit Partners, Vestar Capital, Welsh Carson, Greenbriar Equity Partners, Centerview Partners, and portfolio companies and major corporations, including Molson Coors, Gogo, Assured Partners, Consumer Cellular, Simply Good Foods and Rivers Casinos.
Personal
Fordham University, J.D., 1988; University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1984.
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