Nick Wetzeler is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Experience
Representative Matters
Equity Offerings
CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc. (NYSE: CCCS) and selling stockholders in connection with an underwritten secondary offering resulting in gross proceeds to the selling stockholders of $200 million.
Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and selling stockholders in connection with an underwritten secondary offering for gross proceeds to the selling stockholders of $328 million.
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT), the largest natural gas company by production in North America, in connection with multiple underwritten secondary offerings for gross proceeds to the selling stockholders of approximately $825 million.
Energy Spectrum Capital-backed ESGEN Acquisition Corp, an energy transition SPAC, in its $240 million IPO.
Thoughtworks Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWKS) in connection with its $840 million IPO.
Freestone Acquisition Corp in connection with its proposed $200 million IPO.
Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) in connection with its “at-the-market” offering of 10 million shares of common stock.
Freshpet, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRPT) in connection with its multiple follow-on public offerings of common stock for aggregate gross proceeds to the company of $650 million.
Debt Offerings
Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE: M) in connection with a dual-tranche $850 million Rule 144A/Reg S senior notes offering.
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in its 144A offering of $500 million of senior notes.
Ladder Capital Finance Holdings LLLP and Ladder Capital Finance Corporation in connection with their $650 million 144A/Reg. S offering of senior notes.
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a leading global alternative investment manager, in connection with its $450 million 144A/Reg. S offering of fixed-rate resettable subordinated notes.
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. in connection with their $500 million 144A/Reg. S offering of senior notes.
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. in connection with their $600 million 144A/Reg. S offering of senior notes.
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) in connection with its $1.0 billion 144A/Reg. S offering of two tranches of senior notes to finance the acquisition of Alta Resources Development, LLC.
Allied Universal, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in connection with its $4.5 billion 144A/Reg S offering of five tranches of high-yield senior secured notes denominated in USD, Euro and sterling to finance the acquisition of G4S plc.
Tender Offers
Macy’s, Inc. (NYSE: M) in connection with a tender offer to repurchase second lien notes in connection with the release of the liens on the collateral securing such notes.
Turing Holding Corp. (n/k/a Thoughtworks Holding, Inc. (NYSE: TWKS)) in connection with a tender offer to repurchase shares of common stock and options exercisable into such common stock.
Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions
Washington Prime Group Inc. and eighty-eight of its affiliates (“WPG”) in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. WPG owns, develops, and manages retail real estate across the United States, including enclosed and open air retail properties, with a portfolio comprising material interests in 102 shopping centers across the United States. As of the petition date, WPG had approximately $3.9 billion of funded debt.
Mergers & Acquisitions
A private equity firm in connection with its majority investment in a business process automation software provider.
Exchange Act Reporting
Thoughtworks Holding, Inc.
EQT Corporation
Freshpet, Inc.
Southwestern Energy Company
CCC Intelligent Solutions Holdings Inc.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
2020Texas
Education
University of Virginia School of LawJ.D.2020
Editorial Board, Virginia Tax Review
Iowa State UniversityB.S., Financesumma cum laude2016