Andrea Weintraub is a debt finance partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Prior to joining Kirkland’s debt finance group, Andrea focused her practice on restructuring.
Experience
Representative Matters
Debt Finance Experience
Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. — Representing Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. in its £1.08 billion sale of The Priory Group to Waterland Private Equity.
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P — Representing Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. in its investment in System One Holdings, LLC.
Array Technologies, Inc. and Oakteee Capital — Representing Array Technologies, Inc. and Oakteee Capital on the closing of Array’s IPO, the largest U.S. clean technology and renewable energy IPO to date.
Le Tote Inc. — Representing Le Tote Inc. in its acquisition of Lord + Taylor.
Anastasia Beverly Hills — Represented Anastasia Beverly Hills in its strategic minority investment by TPG Capital.
Francisco Partners — Represented Francisco Partners in its acquisition of Qualcomm Life, Inc.
Boardriders, Inc. — Represented Boardriders, Inc. in its acquisition of Billabong International Limited.
Levine Leichtman Capital Partners — Represented Levine Leichtman Capital Partners in connection with its 1st Lien/2nd Lien refinancing for Trinity Consultants, Inc.
Restructuring Experience
Blackhawk Mining LLC — Representing Blackhawk Mining LLC and its affiliates in their prepackaged Chapter 11 cases in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Blackhawk is a leading metallurgical coal producer based in Lexington, Kentucky, and has operations primarily in West Virginia and Kentucky. Blackhawk employs more than 2,800 employees. Blackhawk entered Chapter 11 to implement a prepackaged plan of reorganization that will eliminate approximately $650 million of the Company’s nearly $1.1 billion in prepetition funded debt.
Cengage Learning, Inc. — Represented Cengage Learning, Inc., a leading educational content, software and services company for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide, in its prearranged Chapter 11 case.
Dex One Corporation —Represented Dex One Corporation, a leading provider of yellow-page and digital directories and marketing services, in its prepackaged Chapter 11 merger of equals with SuperMedia Inc.
Conexant Systems, Inc. — Represented Conexant Systems, Inc., and its domestic affiliates (“Conexant”) in its Chapter 11 reorganization proceedings before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.
Clerk & Government Experience
ExternHonorable Charles E. Rendle, IIIUnited States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri2011
InternHonorable Melanie G. May, ChiefFlorida Fourth District Court of Appeal2010