Matt Leist is a Finance partner in the Los Angeles office of Paul, Weiss where he represents top-tier private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in their most complex financing transactions. Matt’s practice focuses on all aspects of financing transactions, including extensive experience with recapitalizations, refinancings, asset-based facilities, first-lien, second-lien, mezzanine, subordinated and unitranche financings and high-yield transaction structures.
Matt has extensive experience advising private equity clients such as KKR, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Bain Capital and Warburg Pincus on a variety of complex finance transactions across a range of industries.
Matt's representative matters include advising:
- KKR in connection with the financings for Marmic Fire; Chase Corporation; CIRCOR International; Industrial Physics; Reliaquest; Integrated Specialty Coverages; Geostabilization; The Crosby Group; Bettcher Industries; Charter Next Generation; apexanalytix; PlayOn! Sports; Beacon Pointe; Hyperion; Therapy Brands; AppLovin Corporation; Flow Control; Graduation Alliance; OneStream; Novaria; Alludo; and Optiv.
- Thomas H. Lee Partners in connection with the financings for Headlands Research; Red Nucleus; AMI; YA Group; Hightower Advisors; Amerilife; Agiliti Health; Smile Doctors; MHS; Fortna; inRiver; Bynder; Abascus Data Systems; Intelligent Medical Objects; Bazaarvoice; Auction.com; Carpe Data; Odessa; Care Hospice; Insurance Technologies; Adare Pharmaceuticals; Nextech; Seniorlink; and its acquisition of the Automation Business from Brooks.
- Bain Capital in connection with the financing for its acquisition of ITP Aero from RollsRoyce and financing for LeanTaas; ATW; AhlstromMunksjö; Kestra Medical Technologies; Zelis; Dealer Tire; Rocket Software; Apex Tool Group; Premiere Heathcare; Imperial Dade; and Aveanna Healthcare.
- Warburg Pincus in connection with the financings for Everise; NEOGOV; and Visma, and its NAV and subscription credit facilities.
- General Atlantic in connection with its recommended offer for Learning Technologies Group; its financing support for Transcendia Holdings, Inc.’s recapitalization transaction and its take-private sale of EngageSmart.
- Investindustrial in connection with its financing of portfolio company Winland Foods and its acquisition of TreeHouse Foods.
- Strategic Value Partners in its financing for Revelyst and Associated Materials, and its financing of portfolio company OmniMax International.
- Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the financings for Castrol.
- Keurig Dr Pepper on its €15.7 billion ($18.4 billion) all-cash acquisition of leading global coffee company JDE Peet’s and its planned separation into two independent public companies and on two strategic investments totaling $7 billion.
- OmniMax International in its $1.335 billion sale to Gibraltar Industries, Inc., by funds managed by Strategic Value Partners, LLC.
- DeepIntent, Inc., a health care advertising intelligence and software company, on its $637 million sale to global investment firm Vitruvian Partners.
- Tempo Software, a portfolio company of private equity firm Diversis, on a leveraged recapitalization.
- Amedisys, Inc., a leading provider of home health, hospice and high-acuity care, in its all-cash acquisition by UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum.
- Bregal Sagemount, a leading private equity platform focused on growth investments in North America, on the financing aspects of its significant growth equity investment in Extra Duty Solutions.
- Lone View Capital in its acquisition of a majority stake in CargoSprint.
- Altor Equity Partners in its acquisition of CCM Hockey from Birch Hill Equity Partners.
- Enstar Group Limited in its all-cash $5.1 billion acquisition by investment firm Sixth Street.
