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Overview

Grace Aviles is of counsel in the Corporate practice at Paul Hastings, based in the New York office. Ms. Aviles focuses her finance practice representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers, and financial institutions in secured and unsecured loan and capital market transactions for both U.S. and internationally based businesses. She has extensive experience representing clients in diverse financing structures, including acquisition financings/ leveraged buyouts, working capital financings, dividend recaps, private debt offerings, subordinated and mezzanine facilities, and loan workouts and restructurings.

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law (cum laude), J.D., 2015
  • Vanderbilt University, B.S., 2012

Representations

  • Key Private Equity Sponsor and Portfolio Company Representations:
    • Represented Platinum Equity in the financing of its $7 billion acquisition of Ingram Micro Inc.
    • Represented Insight Venture Partners, Genstar Capital, FFL Partners and the Sterling Group, and their respective portfolio companies, in numerous acquisition and corporate financing matters.
  • Key Public Company Representations:
    • Representation of AssetMark Financial Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AMK) in connection with its senior secured credit facilities and other related financing matters.
  • Key Lender Representations:
    • Represented Blackstone Credit in numerous financing matters.
    • Representation of the Steering Committee of the High Yield Bond Holders on the debt restructuring of French oil services company CGG, one of the major financial restructuring in France with $3 billion of indebtedness and the first restructuring conducted under French and U.S. legal proceedings with a Sauvegarde in France and chapter 11 and chapter 15 cases in the U.S.

Practice Areas

Direct Lending and Private Credit Lending

Leveraged & Syndicated Lending

Private Equity


Languages

English


Admissions

New York Bar


Education

Fordham University School of Law, J.D. 2015

Vanderbilt University, B.S. 2012


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