Gena Olan Panter

Since joining Kirkland, Gena has advised on the following transactions:

Initial Public Offerings and Other Equity Offerings

• Shoals Technologies in its offering of 13,384,155 Shares of Class A Common Stock
• Shoals Technologies, a portfolio company of Oaktree, in its $1.9 billion initial public offering
• Array Technologies, a portfolio company of Oaktree, in its $1.2 billion initial public offering
• Chewy in its offering of $275 million of shares of its Class A common stock
• Studio City in its $500 million private placement
• PetSmart in its $690 million mandatory exchangeable trust securities offering

Mergers and Acquisitions, PIPES and Principal Investments

• SK Capital Partners in its agreement to sell Perimeter Solutions to publicly listed acquisition company EverArc Holdings Ltd. for $2 billion
• Warburg Pincus in its $150 million Series E Financing Round for Aura
• AE Industrial Partners in its $1.6 billion de-SPAC and merger of portfolio company BigBear.ai (NYSE: BBAI) with GigCapital4, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: GIGGU)
• Oaktree Transportation Infrastructure Investing Group in its purchase of a minority stake in Rand Logistics from American Industrial Partners
• Trinseo in its acquisition of Arkema’s PMMA business for $1.4 billion
• Institutional investors, including Caledonia, on acquiring stake in Scientific Games from MacAndrews & Forbes
• Grubhub in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com N.V.
• Tripadvisor on its strategic partnership with Trip.com, a China-based travel service provider, to expand global cooperation, including a joint venture, global content agreements and a governance agreement

Acquisition Financing

• Reverence Capital Partners and Advisor Group in Advisor Group’s $500 million high yield secured notes offering in connection with Advisor Group’s acquisition of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services
• Reverence Capital Partners in its $350 million high yield notes offering in connection with its acquisition of Advisor Group
• Viagago in connection with its financings to fund its $4.05 billion acquisition of StubHub from eBay

High Yield and Other Debt Offerings

• Victra Finance Corp., a portfolio company of Lone Star, in its $85 million add on senior secured high yields notes offering
• LBM, a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in its $270 million add on high yields notes offering 
• Victra Finance Corp., a portfolio company of Lone Star, in its $75 million add on senior secured high yields notes offering 
• Imperial Dade, a portfolio company of Bain Capital, in its $660 million high yield notes offering
• Tripadvisor in its $345 million convertible notes offering
• Prestige Brands in its $600 million high yield notes offering and notes redemption 
• Victra Finance Corp., a portfolio company of Lone Star, in its $660 million senior secured high yield notes offering
• Frontier Communications in the first ever $1.150 billion Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) first lien secured notes offering
• Tripadvisor in its $500 million high yield notes offering
• Radiology Partners in its approximately $700 million high yield notes offering
• Grubhub in its $500 million high yield notes offering
• Prestige Brands in its $400 million high yield notes offering and notes redemption
• Allied Universal, a portfolio company of WarburgPincus and Wendel, in its approximately $2 billion high yield notes offering
• Staples in connection with an offering of $2.0 billion of secured high-yield notes and $1.0 billion of unsecured high-yield notes as part of a dividend recapitalization transaction

Corporate Governance

• Public company representation of BigBear.ai following de-SPAC transaction
• Public company representation of Shoals Technologies following IPO
• Public company representation of Phibro Animal Health
• Public company representation of Chewy following IPO
• Public company representation of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited following sale to Steiner Leisure Limited
• Public company representation of Tripadvisor
• Public company representation of Grubhub

Tender Offers

• Kraft Heinz cash tender offer for up to $2.2 billion aggregate purchase price of certain of its outstanding notes
• PetSmart tender offer for up to $205 million aggregate purchase price of certain of its outstanding notes

Prior to joining Kirkland, Gena advised on the following transactions:

Capital Markets

• Restoration Hardware in a $300 million convertible notes offering
• Spark Networks in a public offering of ADSs by selling shareholders
• Ekso Bionics in setting up an ATM program of up to 25,000 shares of common stock
• Pain Therapeutics in a $11.3 million registered direct offering
• Clean Energy Fuels Corps in a private placement of 50.8 million shares of common stock
• Elminda in connection with its Series C1 financing and bridge loan
• Great Ajax in its $76 million convertible senior notes transaction
• Protalix in its exchange offer and reopening of senior convertible notes
• Underwriters RBC and KBW in $125 million fixed to resetting junior subordinated debt transaction
• Underwriters BMO and Stifel in preferred offering of 7.25% Series A cumulative redeemable preferred stock

Mergers & Acquisitions

• Mobileye in its sale to Intel for $15.3 billion
• Harry Abrams in sale of Harry Abrams Talent Agency to employees
• ACEA Biosciences in its sale to Agilent
• IAR Systems in its acquisition of Secure Thingz