Robert G. Van de Mark

Since joining Kirkland, Robert’s experience has included the representation of:

• Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA) in a $5 billion offer of sustainability-linked senior notes and a concurrent tender offer to purchase $4 billion of outstanding senior notes. This represents the largest-ever offering of sustainability-linked notes, and the first-ever by a generic medicines company.
• WeWork Inc. (NYSE: WE) in connection with a secondary offering of $550 million of senior notes from a selling noteholder affiliated with SoftBank.
• Clearlake Capital Group in a $400 million senior notes offering to finance its acquisition of Intertape Polymer Group, a manufacturer of paper and film based pressure-sensitive and water-activated tapes, stretch and shrink films, protective packaging, woven and non-woven products and packaging machinery for industrial and retail use.
• Covanta Holding Corporation in connection with a $300 million sustainability-linked senior notes offering issued as part of a leveraged buyout by EQT Partners, the first ever sustainability-linked LBO financing in the U.S.
• ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) in connection with its business combination with ADVA Optical Networking SE.
• Victra Finance Corp., a portfolio company of Lone Star Funds, in its $85 million add-on senior secured high yield notes offering.
• A syndicate of underwriters in connection with the initial public offering of Vaxxinity (NASDAQ: VAXX).

Prior to joining Kirkland, Robert’s experience included the representation of:

• Bespoke Capital Acquisition Corp. on its acquisition of Vintage Wine Estates, Inc. (NASDAQ: VWE) with an enterprise value of $690 million and listing on Nasdaq.
• goeasy Ltd. (TSX: GSY) in connection with its $320 million offering of senior unsecured notes.
• Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) in connection with its acquisition of Precision NanoSystems Inc.