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Joann is an associate based in New York and practices in the firm’s finance group. Her practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies, and public companies in a broad range of complex financing transactions, including acquisition financings, recapitalizations, senior and subordinated credit facilities, cash-flow and asset-based financings, preferred equity issuances, high-yield debt offerings, and fund financings.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray in 2020, Joann was an associate in the capital markets group at another leading law firm in New York, where she represented various public companies, investment banks, and private equity firms in a wide array of public and private transactions.
Experience
- Represented Kohlberg & Co. in connection with the financings for its acquisitions of GPRS, a nationwide infrastructure visualization and data management company, and Riveron, a national business advisory firm.
- Represented TA Associates in connection with the financing for its acquisition of InHealth MD Alliance, a Medicare Advantage focused primary care physician group.
- Represented H.I.G. Capital in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Capstone Logistics, a leading third-party logistics company.
- Represented Partners Group in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Forefront Dermatology, a dermatology focused physician group.
- Represented Cove Hill Partners in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Kalkomey Holdings, a provider of online recreational safety education and cloud-based agency management solutions.
- Represented American Industrial Partners in connection with the financing for its acquisition of SEACOR, a diversified shipping and logistics company.
- Represented GHO Capital Partners and Vistria Group in connection with the financing for their joint acquisition of Alcami, a pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organization.
- Represented Datavant, a portfolio company of New Mountain Capital, in connection with the $720 million refinancing of its existing credit facilities.
- Represented Samsonite, in connection with the refinancing of its existing senior secured credit facilities with a $800 million Tranche A Term Facility, $600 million Tranche B Term Facility, and $850 million Revolving Credit Facility.
- Represented MolyCop, a portfolio company of American Industrial Partners, in connection with a $1.275 billion refinancing of its existing secured notes and ABL financings.
- Represented AccentCare in an uptier debt exchange that resulted in near-unanimous lender participation, raised $175 million of new money capital, and extended the maturity of its existing $1.3 billion of debt by two years.
- Advised Blackstone in connection with obtaining term loan and bond financings by Blackstone Mortgage Trust.
- Advised a wide variety of funds on capital call and asset-based fund facilities, including the following clients:
- Gridiron Capital
- Invesco
- Wynnchurch