Kyle P. Gillen
Chair, Private Equity Finance Practice Group
Overview
Kyle is a corporate partner who focuses on debt financing transactions. He brings extensive experience advising private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as private companies on structuring, negotiating, and executing deals across the capital structure. Such transactions have included senior, mezzanine, and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, loan workouts, and restructurings.
With a background representing both investors and borrowers, Kyle offers clients a well-rounded perspective on debt finance. His pragmatic, commercially driven approach helps identify and resolve issues in the constantly evolving market. Clients appreciate his in-depth knowledge of financing and his ability to navigate even the most complex or challenging transactions to a successful close.
Experience
Represented a private equity-backed platform aggregating home services companies, as a borrower, of more than half a billion dollars through a syndicated facility, involving the upsizing of an existing senior credit facility and the introduction of a new junior debt facility. The transaction required coordinating a complex capital structure across more than 60 borrower and guarantor entities, negotiating intercreditor arrangements between lender groups and perfecting equity interests held by both loan parties and minority joint venture partners. The financing not only positions the client to meet capital needs, execute acquisitions, fund growth initiatives and manage liquidity; it stands out for its scale, structural complexity and dual-facility design.
Ongoing representation a premier residential roofing company in connection with multiple add-ons to its platform facility and subsequent amendments to its credit facility.
Represented an independent sponsor in connection with its financing facility in connection with the acquisition of a bicycle and bicycle parts sales company.
Represented Bochi Investments, LLC, in its equity acquisition of Marsee Foods, LLC, a wholesale bakery in Portland, Oregon.
Represented Blackstone in connection with its acquisition of a portfolio of 228 mortgage loans from Atlantic Union Bank for approximately $2 billion.
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Credentials
Education
- Magna cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Chicago-Kent Law Review, Executive Articles Editor
Bar & Court Admissions
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- Super Lawyers, Illinois Rising Star, 2018-2023
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