Sarah Lipinski
Overview
Sarah Lipinski is a capital markets associate in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sarah has experience representing issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors in connection with public and private offerings of securities and other capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, investment grade and high yield debt offerings and liability management transactions. Sarah also regularly counsels issuers on SEC disclosure and compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Sarah earned her J.D. from Emory University School of Law with high honors where she was elected Order of the Coif and was Executive Managing Editor of Emory Law Journal. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh.
Experience
Representative Matters
Debt Transactions
- Bain Capital in its $500 million offering of senior secured notes issued to finance the acquisition of Sizzling Platter
- Owens & Minor, Inc. in its $600 million offering of senior secured notes issued to finance the acquisition of Rotech Healthcare Holdings Inc.
- Wayfair LLC in its debut offering of $800 million senior secured notes
- Rocket Software, Inc. in its $800 million offering of senior secured notes issued to finance the acquisition of the AMC business of Open Text Corporation
- Builders FirstSource, Inc. in its $1 billion offering of senior notes
- Värde Partners in its $200 million investment in Globalstar, Inc.
- WeWork Inc. in its $300 million private placements of senior secured notes
- The underwriters in connection with Visa's debut Eurobond offering of €3 billion senior notes
- Lone Star in its $500 million offering of senior notes issued to finance the acquisition of SPX FLOW, Inc.
- Norwegian Cruise Line in its $1,000 million offering of senior secured notes, $600 million offering of senior unsecured notes and $473.175 million offering of exchangeable senior notes
- American Securities LLC, in its $756 million offering of senior notes issued to finance Prince International Corporation’s acquisition of Ferro Corporation and combination with Chromaflo Technologies to form the renamed company Vibrantz Technologies Inc.
- Pike Corporation in its $225 million add-on offering of senior notes
- The underwriters in connection with BlackRock TCP Capital Corp.'s $150 million add-on offering of notes
- Lone Star in its $350 million offering of senior notes issued to finance the acquisition of AOC Resins
- Huntsman International in its $400 million offering of senior notes
- Primo Water in its $750 million offering of senior notes
Equity Transactions
- Kestra and Bain Capital in the $202 million initial public offering of Kestra Medical Technologies, Ltd.
- Birkenstock and L Catterton in their $756 million underwritten secondary offering of ordinary shares of Birkenstock Holding plc
- The underwriters in the $125 million secondary offering of LifeStance Health Group, Inc., by affiliates of TPG, Summit Partners and Silversmith Capital Partners
- Birkenstock and L Catterton in the $1.5 billion initial public offering of Birkenstock Holding plc
- Clearwater Analytics and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe in their $195 million underwritten secondary offering of Class A Common Stock of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
- Clearwater Analytics, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe and Warburg Pincus, in their $350 million and $336 million underwritten block trades of Class A Common Stock of Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
- Fortress Investment Group LLC in connection with its $80 million preferred equity investment in Broad Street Realty, Inc.
- Constellation Brands, Inc. in connection with its $1.5 billion stock declassification by its controlling stockholder
- The underwriters in the $720 million initial public offering of LifeStance Health Group, Inc., a portfolio company of TPG Global, LLC
- JAWS Juggernaut Acquisition Corp., sponsored by Barry S. Sternlicht and Paul E. Jacobs, Ph.D, in its $276 million initial public offering
Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions
- Modivcare Inc. in its $105 million incremental financing raise, including an uptier of its unsecured notes into new second lien senior secured PIK toggle notes
- CURO Group Holdings Corp. in its uptier exchange of $682.3 million of its senior second lien notes into new senior 1.5 lien notes
- Nordic Aviation Capital and its subsidiaries in connection with their prearranged Chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and the issuance of senior secured notes at emergence
- MacAndrews & Forbes in connection with Vericast Corp.’s offering of $540 million first lien senior notes, private placement of $439 million second lien senior notes and restructuring of existing notes via certain exchange offers and a consent solicitation
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. in its up to $23.7 billion acquisition by Sycamore Partners
- Partners Group in the sale of its interests in Global Blue Group Holding AG to Shift4 Payments, Inc.
- Phibro Animal Health Corporation in its $350 million acquisition of Zoetis' medicated feed additive product portfolio, certain water soluble products and related assets
- AbbVie Inc. in its $8.7 billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics
- K1 Investment Management in its $39.9 million tender offer for and take private of MariaDB plc
- KKR in the recapitalization of Cotiviti, Inc. with KKR and Veritas Capital
- Paine Schwartz Partners in its $185 million acquisition and take private of AgroFresh Solutions, Inc.
- CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II in its $4.8 billion combination with Getty Images and concurrent $225 million common equity private placement
- SK Capital Partners in its agreement to sell Perimeter Solutions to publicly listed acquisition company EverArc Holdings Ltd. for $2 billion
SEC Compliance, Disclosure and Governance Advice
- AbbVie Inc.
- Phibro Animal Health Corporation
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2020New York
Education
- Emory University School of LawJ.D.with High Honors2019
Order of the Coif
Executive Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal
- University of PittsburghB.A., Political Science & Historysumma cum laude2016