ProfessionalsStephen K. Koo
Tel: +1-212-373-3081
Fax: +1-212-492-0081
skoo@paulweiss.com
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York,
NY
10019-6064
Fax: +1-212-492-0081
A partner in the Finance Group of the Corporate Department, Stephen has extensive experience representing corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors and lenders in a wide range of leveraged and acquisition finance transactions.
EXPERIENCE
Some of his recent representations include:
- Capri Holdings Limited in connection with its $1.95 billion in credit facilities, as well as the financing aspects of its acquisitions of Jimmy Choo and Versace
- Kymera International, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners engaged in the manufacture and sale of specialty materials, in the financing aspects of its acquisition of Fiven, a Norway-based producer of silicon carbide materials, from OpenGate Capital
- Continental Grain Company in connection with its senior secured credit facility as well as the financing aspects of the acquisition by its joint venture with Cargill of Sanderson Farms, with a total equity value of $4.5 billion
- Virtu Financial in the refinancing of its $1.545 billion in senior secured credit facilities, as well as the financing aspects of its acquisitions of KCG Holdings and Investment Technology Group
- Kohlberg & Co. in connection with the debt financing transactions for several of its portfolio companies
- G-III Apparel Group in connection with its $700 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility
- Movado Group in connection with its senior secured revolving credit facility
- TeraWulf, a NASDAQ listed digital asset technology and Bitcoin mining company, in connection with its initial debt financing
- EQT and Lazer Logistics in the financing aspects of its acquisition of the spotting operations of Hirschbach Motor Lines