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With more than a decade of experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies on leveraged finance transactions, Arek Maczka brings clients a sophisticated understanding of business and finance combined with a strategic and practical approach.
Arek regularly works with sponsors to help negotiate and structure complex financings, including syndicated credit facilities, mezzanine financings, ABL facilities, bridge facilities and high-yield debt offerings.
Clients appreciate Arek’s ability to translate their business objectives into financing agreements that meet both immediate and long-term needs. With deep insight into a range of markets and industries, Arek executes quickly and efficiently to help clients secure the best terms.
Experience
- Represented New Mountain Capital in connection with:
- obtaining debt financing for the acquisition of the Rawlings Group, a leading coverage analytics provider
- obtaining debt financing for its merger of HealthComp, a health plan administration provider and Virgin Pulse, an employee wellness and engagement company
- obtaining syndicated credit facilities for its take-private acquisition of Aegion Corporation, a provider of infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation and protection solutions
- Represented Parts Town, the leading distributor of parts for the food service industry and a portfolio company of Berkshire Partners and Leonard Green & Partners, in connection with its debt financing facilities
- Represented Curriculum Associates, a leading education K-12 education provider and a portfolio company of Permira, Berkshire Partners and Hellman and Friedman, in connection with its debt financing facilities
- Represented Berkshire Partners in connection with obtaining debt financing for the acquisition of 3Phase, a provider of elevator and escalator maintenance, repair and modernization services
- Represented Berkshire Partners and Warburg Pincus in connection with debt financing for the acquisition of Ensemble Health, a provider of technology-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for health systems
- Represented Trinseo, a specialty material solutions provider, in connection with:
- A $1.1 billion innovative financing transaction addressing the Company's 2024 senior secured term loans and $385 million of its 2025 unsecured bonds
- A $1.2 billion acquisition financing for the purchase of Arkema’s polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) business
- Represented Silver Lake Partners in connection with:
- obtaining debt financing for its acquisition of SolarWinds, a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software
- obtaining debt financing for N-Able, a provider of software solutions for managed service providers, in connection with the spin-out of N-Able from SolarWinds
- Represented Baring Private Equity Asia EQT, in connection with:
- obtaining syndicated credit facilities for the acquisition of Tricor Group, Asia's leading provider of integrated business, corporate, investor services, human resources & payroll solutions
- obtaining syndicated credit facilities for the merger of Tricor and Vistra, a leading provider of essential business services
- Represented Avista Capital Partners in connection with:
- obtaining debt financing for the acquisition of Probo Medical, a provider of medical imaging equipment
- obtaining debt financing for the acquisition of Taconic Biosciences, a provider of genetically engineered research models and related services
- Represented TA Associates in connection with obtaining debt financing for the acquisitions of QSR International, Palisade and Addinsoft to form Lumivero, a leading software analytics platform
- Represented FirstLight Fiber, a portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure Partners and a provider fiber-optic data, internet, data center, cloud and voice services, in connection with its debt financing facilities
- Represented Lightower Fiber Networks, a leading provider of fiber solutions, in its US$1.9 billion acquisition of Fibertech Networks, a provider of fiber optic-based network services, and its US$7.1 billion acquisition by Crown Castle