I was head of Wingate’s legal, risk & compliance team, responsible for governance, legal risk management and provision of legal services across the Wingate Group.

I was a member of Weil’s Banking & Finance practice based in New York. My practice focused on advising borrowers, private equity sponsors, banks, direct lenders and other financial institutions on a variety of financing transactions, including first and second lien credit facilities, asset-based loans, investment grade loans, middle market and large cap financings and acquisition financings.Significant transactions included acting for:* Citi, as administrative agent, and Citi and another financial institution, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in $21.8 billion bridge and term loan facilities and a $5 billion revolving working capital facility to support the $55 billion acquisition by Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY) of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation* Goldman Sachs, as agent, in a $9 billion bridge financing commitment to support the $10.9 billion acquisition by Conagra Brands, Inc. of Pinnacle Foods Inc.* Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in a $5 billion bridge financing commitment for the $6 billion merger of CenterPoint Energy and Vectren Corporation.* AVSC Holding Corp. (d/b/a PSAV) (at the time a portfolio company of Goldman Sachs and Olympus Partners) in $1.4 billion first and second lien facilities to refinance existing indebtedness and to finance a dividend.* Snow Phipps Group in first and second lien facilities to finance its acquisition of DecoPac, Inc. * Lindsay Goldberg in $290 million senior secured facilities to finance its acquisition ofBig Ass Solutions. * Barclays in senior secured facilities for Valitás Health Services, Inc., Corizon Health, Inc. and Corizon LLC.I also acted for various pro bono clients on a range of issues. My pro bono work included leading a team of attorneys that secured asylum in the United States for a refugee client fleeing persecution in Colombia.