Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Larry Wee is a partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets, Finance and Restructuring Groups at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP where he focuses on a variety of capital markets and finance transactions, securities regulation and restructuring matters. Larry is also a member of the Hybrid Capital & Special Situations Group, representing creditors, borrowers, issuers, distressed investors, direct lenders and sponsors in a wide range of direct lending transactions, rescue financings, convertible note/preferred issuances, DIP financings, exit financings, restructurings, liability management transactions and other financing transactions and issuances of equity-linked instruments.
Larry has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a leading capital markets lawyer as well as by Lawdragon as one of their “500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers.” Larry’s practice includes public and private equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and offerings of asset-backed securities. He also represents public companies in connection with their ongoing securities law and corporate governance matters and advises in connection with public mergers and acquisitions transactions. Larry also has extensive experience in debt consent solicitations, debt restructurings, restructuring financings and exchange offers.
Larry’s recent noteworthy representations include Revlon and certain of its subsidiaries in their chapter 11 cases; an ad hoc group of crossholders of Talen Energy Supply, LLC, in connection with its chapter 11 cases; Lexmark International, Inc. in connection with a $1.06 billion term loan A facility and a $100 million revolving credit facility; HG Vora Capital Management in connection with providing a $170 million unsecured holding company term loan, a $30 million structured term loan and an associated equity investment in a leading wellness infrastructure company; funds affiliated with Ares Management in a $300 million preferred equity investment in and purchase of $167 million of senior unsecured notes issued by FTAI Infrastructure Inc.; Goodlife Fitness Centres in connection with a refinancing of all of its existing debt facilities with a senior secured term loan, provided by funds advised by King Street and Centerbridge; an ad hoc group of bondholders and lenders to various Digicel entities in connection with a restructuring of $7 billion of debt involving a Bermuda Scheme of Arrangement; an ad hoc group of first-lien term loan lenders in the chapter 11 reorganization of Frontier Communications; and Carnival Corporation & plc in six post-COVID first- and second-lien bank and bond secured financings and two post-COVID unsecured bond financings totaling more than $21 billion, a $2 billion debt tender offer and consent solicitation and amendments and waivers to more than $20 billion of its pre-COVID debt.