Overview
Joshua M. Zelig is a partner in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s New York office.
Mr. Zelig’s practice is primarily focused on representing leading commercial and investment banks in leveraged finance and asset-based lending transactions, including bank financings and leveraged buyouts, direct lending, bridge lending and loan commitments, and debt and equity offerings. He represented the financing sources in numerous acquisition-related financings, including the investment in Cotiviti by KKR, acquisitions of Scientific Games’ Lottery Business and DexKo by Brookfield Capital, CoreLogic and Ascensus by Stone Point Capital, Rosen Group by Partners Group, Interior Logic Group, Alight Solutions and Team Health by Blackstone, the acquisition of EMC by Dell and the purchase of Signode by Crown Holdings.
Accolades
- Banking & Finance: New York, Chambers USA
- Banking & Finance: USA, Chambers Global
- Next Generation Partner, Capital Markets: High-Yield Debt Offerings, Legal 500 US
- Recommended for Commercial Lending, Legal 500 US
- Notable Practitioner, Banking and Capital Markets Debt and Equity, IFLR1000 US
- 40 Under 40, Secured Finance Network
Education
- Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (cum laude) 2006
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A. (cum laude) 2003
Representations
- Advised the financing sources in $1.175 billion of debt financings, consisting of a $600 million notes offering and $575 million term loan facility, to finance S&S Activewear’s acquisition of alphabroder.
- Advised the lenders on $1.2 billion of financing in connection with Veritas Capital’s $2.45 billion acquisition of NCR Voyix Corporation’s (NYSE: VYX) cloud-based digital banking business.
- Advising the private credit lenders on the $3.8 billion financing for Carlyle’s acquisition of Vantive, Baxter International’s kidney-care unit.
- Advised the financing sources in Bain Capital's $4.5 billion take-private acquisition of Envestnet, a leading wealth management technology company.
- Represented the financing sources in connection with Partners Group’s acquisition of The Rosen Group.
- Advised the lender in connection with refinancing the existing debt facilities of HornetSecurity, and its acquisition of Vade Group.
- Represented the lead arrangers on the $5.6 billion financing for the investment by KKR in healthcare data analytics firm Cotiviti, joining existing investor Veritas Capital.
- Advised the Bank of Montreal and other arrangers in connection with financing the $515 million investment by Warburg Pincus in Everise, joining existing investor Brookfield.
- Represented the financing sources in nearly $50 billion of new debt financing that backed the landmark acquisition of EMC Corporation by Dell Inc., in a transaction valued at approximately $67 billion.
- Represented the financing sources in $5.25 billion of debt financing for the acquisition of CoreLogic by funds affiliated with the private equity firm Stone Point Capital.
- Represented the financing sources in approximately $3.8 billion of debt financing for the acquisition of Scientific Games Corporation’s Lottery Business by Brookfield Capital Partners.
- Representation of the initial purchasers in connection with a COVID-era high-yield financing for AMC Entertainment and representation of the dealer manager in connection with a subsequent debt-for-debt exchange.