Christine Dreyer McCay

Christine McCay is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Debt Finance Practice Group and is the Managing Partner of Locke Lord’s Boston office. Christine represents financial institutions, including banks, investment funds and finance companies, as well as private equity sponsors and public and private operating companies in a broad range of debt financing transactions, such as syndicated senior credit facilities, second lien, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings, distressed debt investments, restructuring and recapitalization transactions and high-yield bond issuances.

Christine was a participant in the inaugural 2010-2011 Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Leadership Program.

Christine’s experience includes the representation of:

• Affiliates of Trent Capital Partners in the acquisition of Microporous, a leading manufacturer of high-performance battery separators for lead-acid batteries, and the related credit facility transaction
• ArcLight Capital Partners’ sale of Pride Convenience Holdings, LLC, which operates 31 convenience stores in highly desirable locations, to ARKO, one of the largest operators of convenience stores and wholesalers of fuel in the United States, at a purchase price of approximately $230 million
• Phoenix Tower International (PTI), a wireless communications infrastructure provider, in the combination, amendment and restatement of five senior secured credit facilities into a single $2.0 billion multi-facility transaction
• An affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, in the acquisition of the Pride retail chain of stores and the related credit facility transaction
• KPS Mid-Cap Investments, an affiliate of KPS Capital Partners, in the acquisition of Libertas Copper LLC (dba Hussey Copper) and the related credit facility transaction
• Lamar Advertising Company in several financing transactions, including:
  • $1.7 billion senior secured credit facilities
  • $250 million accounts receivable securitization program
  • Multiple high yield debt transactions, including $600 million 3.75% notes due 2028, $550 million 4.00% notes due 2030, $400 million 4.875% notes due 2029 and $550 million 3.625% senior notes due 2031
• Kofile, Inc., and its majority investor, Audax Private Equity, in its acquisition of Bizodo, Inc. (d/b/a SeamlessDocs), and the related financing transactions
• Agents and arrangers in syndicated lending transactions, including:
  • $600 million senior secured cross-border credit facility for international industrial supplier
  • $250 million senior secured credit facility for wine and spirits distributor
  • $200 million senior unsecured credit facility for public utility holding company
  • Multiple senior subordinated debt financings for a middle market private equity firm investing in manufacturing companies