Paul Dmitri Zier
Overview
Paul Zier is a partner in Kirkland’s Chicago office. His practice is principally concentrated in the areas of investment funds, corporate finance, initial public offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. Paul focuses his practice on public and private securities offerings, and general corporate and securities law advice, including public and private debt and equity offerings (representing issuers, underwriters and investors), corporate restructurings and venture capital financings, periodic reporting and disclosure requirements, corporate governance, Section 13 and Section 16 reporting obligations, and blue sky matters. His mergers and acquisition practice includes a variety of stock and asset acquisitions and mergers of both public and private companies.
Experience
Representative Matters
Six Flags Theme Parks Inc. in its $725 million offering of 7.000% senior secured notes due 2025
Urban One, Inc. in its $825 million offering of 7.375% senior secured notes due 2028
Intelligent Packaging Limited Finco Inc./Intelligent Packaging Limited Co-Issuer LLC in its $450 million offering of 6.000% senior secured notes due 2028
Midwest Gaming Borrower, LLC in its $750 million offering of 4.875% Senior Secured Notes Due 2029
Diamond (BC) B.V. an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Diversey Holdings, Ltd. in its $500 million offering of 4.625% Senior Notes due 2029
Navistar International Corporation in its $250 million offering of 8.25% senior notes due 2021
Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Prop. Mezz, L.P. and Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Finance Corp. in its $300 million offering of 5.875% senior secured notes due 2025
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $1.25 billion offering of 6.625% senior notes due 2027
Rivers Pittsburgh Borrower, L.P. in its $415 million offering of 6.125% senior secured notes due 2021
NRG Yield Operating LLC in its $350 million offering of 5.000% senior notes due 2026
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $1 billion offering of 7.250% senior notes due 2026
NRG Yield Operating LLC and NRG Yield LLC in their $250 million offering of 3.25% convertible senior notes due 2020
TerraForm Global, Inc. in its $675 million initial public offering
PaperWorks Finance LLC to be merged with and into PaperWorks Industries, Inc. in its $90 million offering of 9.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2019
NRG Yield Operating LLC in its offer to exchange up to $500 million of new 5.375% senior notes due 2024 for a like amount of outstanding 5.375% senior notes due 2024
NRG Yield Operating LLC in its $500 million offering of 5.375% senior notes due 2024
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $1.1 billion offer to exchange 6.25% senior notes due 2022 for a like amount of outstanding 6.25% senior notes due 2022
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $1.1 billion offering of 6.25% senior notes due 2022
NRG Yield Operating LLC and NRG Yield LLC in their $300 million offering of 3.50% convertible senior notes due 2019
PaperWorks Industries, Inc. in its $275 million offering of 9.500% senior secured notes due 2019
TerraForm Power in its $500 million initial public offering
American Builders & Contractors Supply Co., Inc. in its $500 million offering of 5.625% senior notes due 2021
NRG Yield, Inc. in its $468 million initial public offering of more than 19 million shares of class A common stock
Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Prop. Mezz, L.P. and Sugarhouse HSP Gaming Finance Corp. in its $240 million offering of 6.375% senior secured notes due 2021
Rivers Pittsburgh Borrower, L.P. in its $275 million offering of 9.50% senior secured notes due 2019
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $990 million offering of 6.625% senior notes due 2023
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $800 million offering of 7.625% senior notes due 2019 and $1.2 billion offering of 7.875% senior notes due 2021
Visteon Corporation in its $500 million offering of 6.75% senior notes due 2019
Tempel Steel Company in its $130 million offering of 12.829% senior secured notes due 2016
Tempel Steel Company in its $135 million offering of 12.000% senior secured notes due 2016
NRG Energy in its $1.1 billion offering of 8.25% senior notes due 2020
Nordenia Holdings GmbH in its €280 million offering of offering of 9.75% senior second priority notes
Midwest Gaming in its $175 million offering of 11.625% senior secured notes due 2016
NRG Energy, Inc. in its $700 million offering of 8.5% senior notes due 2019
Avis Budget Group in its $300 million offering of 3.5% convertible senior notes due 2014
Syniverse Holdings in its $356 million secondary offering of common stock
Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V. in its $250 million initial public offering
Maxcom Telecomunicaciones, S.A.B. de C.V. in its $50.3 million senior notes offering
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2000Illinois
Education
- University of Denver College of LawJ.D.1995
Order of St. Ives
Staff Member, Denver University Law Review
- New York UniversityLL.M., Taxation1996
- University of MontanaB.S., Finance & Economics1991