Firm News: Cahill Women Partner Deal Highlights 03.28.2024

Cahill Women Partner Deal Highlights

Date: 03/28/24

In recognition and celebration of Cahill's women leaders, please see below selected deal highlights from the past year involving the firm's women partners.

• Partner and chair of Cahill's M&A and Corporate Advisory practice group, Helene R. Banks, represented ICON plc in its acquisition of Biotel Research LLC (formerly known as Philips Pharma Solutions), a leading provider of medical imaging and cardiac safety monitoring services; and Helene and partner Donna Bryan advised Danaher Ventures LLC, the corporate venture subsidiary of Danaher Corporation, in its investment in BlueWhale Bio, Inc., a new company spun out of the University of Pennsylvania to overcome key bottlenecks in cell and gene therapy manufacturing.
• Partner Donna Bryan represented the administrative agent under a revolving credit facility for ST US AR Finance LLC, a non-debtor subsidiary of Mallinckrodt plc, to provide liquidity for Mallinckrodt's recent Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware; and Donna and tax partner Ann Creed represented was among the team who represented a private credit fund in connection with a $100 million incremental first lien delayed draw term loan facility for a national litigation support services provider to support future add-on acquisitions.
• Partner Prue Criddle was among the team who represented the lead arrangers and lenders in connection with the debt financing provided to support Advent International and Lanxess AG's acquisition of the engineering materials business of DSM and the joint venture with the High-Performance Materials business of LANXESS.
• Partners Meghan McDermott and Juliana Obregon represented the lead arrangers in connection with a $1.25 billion revolving credit facility for MSCI Inc., a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community; and Meghan was among the team who represented the underwriters in connection with a public offering of $1.25 billion notes offering for Fox Corporation.
• Partner Juliana Obregon was among the team who represented the lead arrangers and the administrative agent in connection with a $2.9 billion term loan credit facility and a revolving maturity extension for Jane Street Group, LLC, a global electronic market maker.
• Partner Susanna Suh represented Linde plc and certain other subsidiaries in connection with a $1.5 billion 364-day revolving credit facility; and Susanna was among the team who represented PNC as administrative agent and PNC Capital Markets as lead arranger in connection with an incremental revolving credit facility for CONSOL Energy Inc.
• Partner Beth Yahl was among the team who represented the debt financing sources in connection with $2.25 billion of debt financings to finance Forward Air Corporation's acquisition of Omni Logistics, LLC; and Beth represented the lead arrangers in connection with a $1.2 billion revolving credit facility for NCL Corporation Ltd. and Voyager Vessel Company, LLC, a global cruise company which operates the Norwegian Cruise Line, Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises brands.