Overview

Meir Dominitz is a partner in Mayer Brown's New York office and a member of the Banking & Finance practice. He advises financial institutions and alternative credit providers as well as sponsor and corporate borrowers on a wide variety of financing transactions, including acquisition and other leveraged financing, syndicated and direct lending transactions, asset-based lending, investment-grade lending and bridge financing. Meir’s practice also includes restructuring-related and other distressed financing and complex limited liability management transactions.

Spoken Languages

  • English
  • Hebrew

Experience

Borrower Representations:

  • KBR, a publicly traded engineering, procurement and construction company, in connection with its $2 billion multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional revolving credit and term loan facilities.
  • Envestnet, a publicly traded provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness, in connection with its $500 million revolving credit facility.
  • Greenlight Capital Re, a publicly traded reinsurance company, in connection with its $75 million term loan facility.
  • Outbrain, a publicly traded web recommendation platform, in connection with its $75 million ABL facility.
  • CACI International, a publicly traded information technology company, in connection with its $2.3 billion revolving credit and term loan facilities.
  • Dean Foods, a food and beverage and dairy company, in connection with its $450 million A/R securitization facility and $350 million revolving credit facility.
  • Sequential Brands, a consumer brands company, in connection with its $700 million first lien and second lien facilities.
  • An investment management company, in connection with its $300 million revolving credit and term loan facilities.
  • A multi-brand franchise restaurant group, in connection with its $295 million revolving credit and term loan facilities.

Syndicated Financing Lender Representations:

  • The arranger and agent in connection with $350 million financing made available to WeWork Companies.
  • The arrangers and agents in connection with $4.5 billion financing made available to FirstEnergy and certain of its operating subsidiaries.
  • The arrangers and agent in connection with $555 million first and second lien financing related to a private equity backed acquisition of a global provider of thermal management and sealing solutions.
  • The arrangers and agent in connection with $515 million first and second lien financing related to a private equity backed acquisition of a private label maker of snack food products.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $800 million term loans financing related to the acquisition of a business-to-business cloud integration service provider by a software company.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $650 million ABL and term loan financing related to a strategic buyer acquisition of baseball and softball businesses.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $1.1 billion reserve-based and second lien financing related to a private equity backed acquisition of shale fields.
  • The arrangers and agent in connection with $200 million ABL financing related to a private equity backed acquisition of a manufacturer and distributor of building supplies.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $900 million bridge financing related to the acquisition of ARINC Incorporated by Rockwell Collins.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $140 million ABL financing made available to Tribune Publishing in connection with its spinoff from Tribune Media.
  • The arrangers and agent in connection with $250 million letters of credit facility made available to an international construction services company.
  • The arranger and agent in connection with $500 million green loans financing related to the development and construction of a solar generating facility by a lithium mining and processing company.

Direct Lending Lender Representations:

  • CPP Investments in connection with the financing made available to Sixth Street Partners to finance its acquisition of GreenSky platform and associated loan assets from Goldman Sachs.
  • $75 million first and second lien facilities made available to a provider of supply chain management services.
  • $100 million term loan financing made available to a global construction company.
  • $35 million revolving credit and term loan financing related to the acquisition of a trade receivables company from Greensill.

Restructuring Representations:

  • The agent and revolving credit lenders in connection with a debt financing and exchange transaction by GEO Group.
  • The agent and lenders in connection with out of court restructuring of the capital structure (debt and equity) of a private equity backed developer of patented radio frequency and digital video processing equipment.
  • The agent and lenders in connection with the out of court restructuring and conversion of first and second lien facilities of a private equity backed global marketing and digital solutions company.
  • A privately held poultry company in connection with its out of court restructuring of $775 million of existing debt and the raise of $250 million in new debt.
  • The agent and lenders in connection with the out of court restructuring of existing debt and raise of new debt of Fresh Direct.

Certain representations occurred prior to joining Mayer Brown.


Education

Columbia University School of Law, JD
Columbia Business Law Review, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

York University, BA
First Class Graduate with Distinction, Dean’s Honor Roll

Admissions

  • New York