Ropes & Gray Advises Tillman Infrastructure on $500 Million Financing

Ropes & Gray advised Tillman Infrastructure, LLC, a leading provider of wireless communication infrastructure, on a $500 million term loan facility with a syndicate of lenders arranged by JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and including, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Banco Santander, CoBank ACB, MUFG Bank, Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

The proceeds will be used to refinance existing loans and provide additional growth capital to support its wireless carrier and wireless infrastructure service provider customers' infrastructure needs.

This transaction further showcases Ropes & Gray expertise in digital infrastructure financings building on notable “first of their kind” deals for Frontier Communications on its inaugural $2.1 billion fiber broadband securitization and AtlasEdge on a sustainability-linked €725 million hybrid leveraged/infrastructure financing package.

The Ropes & Gray team includes finance partners Michael Kazakevich, Christopher Poggi and counsel Alexandru Mocanu, and associates Mohammed Al Rasheed, Daniel Lee, Priyambada Das, Patrick Foote, and Peter Zhang. Additional support was provided by asset management partner Anna Lawry, and tax senior attorney Ariella Mutchler.