Pratik Ranjan Das
Associate
Capital Markets
Overview
Pratik Ranjan Das is a capital markets associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Prior to joining Kirkland, Pratik worked as a corporate attorney focusing in capital markets in India for two years. He has worked on a range of equity and debt transactions including global public offerings compliant with Rule 144A and Regulation S, private placements and high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings by banks, non-banking financial corporations and companies across a variety of industries.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Pratik has represented:
Equity Offerings
- Goldman Sachs and Baird, in connection with Ranpak Holdings Corp.’s (NYSE: PACK) secondary offering of $105 million of Ranpak’s common stock
- OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: OSW) and Steiner Leisure Limited, a portfolio company of L Catterton, in connection with a secondary offering of $76.6 million of OneSpaWorld Holdings’ common shares
- Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH) and Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with over $1 billion of primary and secondary offerings of Option Care Health’s common stock
- viagogo in connection with its issuance of $365 million of senior preferred stock
Special Purpose Acquisition Company Transactions
- Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWNT), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the technology and direct-to-consumer sectors, in its $300 million initial public offering
- Tailwind International Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWNI), a special purpose acquisition company focused on the technology and direct-to-consumer sectors in Europe, in its $300 million initial public offering
- Yucaipa Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: YAC), a special purpose acquisition company in its $3.2 billion business combination with SIGNA Sports United
- KORE Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KORE) in its $1 billion business combination with Cerberus Telecom Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management, L.P.
High Yield and Investment Grade Debt Offerings
- Builders FirstSource, Inc. (NYSE: BLDR) in its $300 million add-on senior notes offering
- Clearlake Capital Partners in connection with a $400 million senior notes offering to finance Clearlake’s acquisition of PriSo Holdings Corporation (PrimeSource)
- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) in connection with a four-tranche investment grade notes offering worth over $2 billion and including Eli Lilly’s inaugural “Sustainability Bonds” as well as the corresponding tender offer
- Imperial Dade, a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in its $660 million senior notes offering
- Restaurant Brands International Inc. (Burger King) in connection with a $800 million Rule 144A/Reg S first lien senior secured notes offering
- Restaurant Brands International Inc. (Burger King) in connection with a $750 million Rule 144A/Reg S first lien senior secured notes offering
- Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion acquisition of CoreLogic, including CoreLogic’s $750 million senior secured notes offering
Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions
- WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE) and its subsidiaries in connection with a comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure through a series of transactions with an ad hoc group of noteholders representing more than 60% of the company’s public notes, a third-party investor and affiliates of SoftBank Group Corp., implemented through certain exchanges of $1.2 billion of WeWork’s existing unsecured notes for new debt and equity securities and the issuance of $675 million of new secured notes for cash
- Avaya Holdings Corp. and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 cases in connection with corporate governance and securities matters
- The Lycra Company and its subsidiaries in connection with a comprehensive debt refinancing, including a refinancing of its existing senior secured notes and associated transactions
Public Mergers and Acquisitions
- Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH) in connection with its acquisition of Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED)
Tender Offers
- CFG Investments S.A.C. in connection with a tender offer to repurchase over $32 million of its first lien senior secured notes and second lien senior secured notes
SEC Compliance, Disclosure and Corporate Governance
- Builders FirstSource, Inc. (NYSE: BLDR)
- Option Care Health (NYSE: OPCH)
- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT)
Prior to joining Kirkland, Pratik was involved in the following matters:
Debt Capital Markets
- Advised the joint structuring advisors/lead arrangers on India's first issuance of listed debt securities by a real estate investment trust.
- Advised India's largest public sector bank on its dual tranche Rule 144A/Regulation S-compliant issuance of senior notes on the London Stock Exchange.
- Advised on the Regulation S-compliant listed debt offering by an Indian subsidiary of a Canadian asset management company.
Equity Capital Markets
- Advised the issuer and major selling shareholders on one of the first initial public offerings by a life insurance corporations in India.
- Advised on several initial public offerings and private placement of listed stock for companies in the real estate, infrastructure, healthcare and facilities management sectors in India.
Prior Experience
Associate, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., Mumbai, India, 2017–2019
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2021, New York
- 2018, Maharashtra & Goa, India
Languages
- English
- Bengali
- Hindi
Education
- Columbia Law SchoolLL.M.2020James Kent Scholar
- The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, IndiaB.A.; LL.B.Hons2017D. S. Chimni Gold Medalist