Ethan Konschuh

ETHAN KONSCHUH focuses his practice on global finance and represents commercial banks, direct lending funds, investment banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, public and private companies, private equity funds, and their portfolio companies. He provides legal guidance for these clients in a wide variety complex financial transactions, including senior secured and unsecured credit facilities, first lien and second lien transactions, syndicated, club and bi-lateral financings, unitranche financings, mezzanine financings, cash-flow, split-lien transactions, and continuation fund structures. Ethan has extensive experience with acquisition financings, recapitalizations, and other transformative transactions across a variety of market segments, from middle market financings, to investment-grade cross-border facilities. He has also represented debtors and creditors in workouts, debtor-in-possession facilities, in- and out-of-court restructurings, and other distressed financings.

Ethan graduated magna cum laude from Minnesota Law School in 2018, where he served as an articles editor for the Minnesota Journal of Law Science & Technology. Ethan graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. degree in economics and political science.

Ethan’s experience includes the following representations:

• Leading direct lender as a lender and administrative agent in connection with US$475,000,000 revolving credit and term loan (including delayed draw term loan) facilities used to finance the acquisition, structured through a continuation vehicle managed by the same private equity sponsor, of a portfolio company of a private equity sponsor that provides aviation parts and maintenance.
• Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets Holdings Pty Limited (MIRA), as private equity sponsor, in connection with the AUS$1.85 billion (equivalent to US$1.43 billion) term loan B transaction, the largest ever done in the Australian market.
• Direct lending business of global asset manager as a lender and administrative agent in connection with US$495,000,000 revolving credit, delayed draw and funded term loan facilities used to refinance the existing debt of a private equity owned portfolio company that distributes specialty and imported food products.
• Direct lending business of global asset manager as administrative agent and lender, in connection with a US$430 million credit facility consisting of a US$30 million committed revolving loan, US$50 million committed delayed draw term loan and US$350 million term loan to facilitate the acquisition of a holding company as owner of an engineering services company manufacturing industrial equipment and machinery.
• Leading direct lender as lead arranger, in connection with a US$272 million senior secured cross-border credit facility structured as a UK "certain funds" style execution to finance the acquisition of a global tech recruiting company.
• Miami-based medical services company CareMax Inc. in its US$693 million Chapter 11 filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas on Nov. 17, 2024.
• One of the largest banks in North America as lead arranger and administrative agent in connection with a US$500 million multi-currency cross-border credit facility for a specialty distribution company providing high-touch, value-added distribution solutions to the maintenance, repair and operations, original equipment manufacturer and the industrial technologies markets.
• Leading direct lender as lender and administrative agent in connection with US$445,000,000 Term B Loans and US$20,000,000 Revolving Credit Commitments in connection with the acquisition of a company that manages programming to facilitate interaction and collaboration among private, invitation only, groups of senior executives and the refinancing of an existing credit facility, structured through a continuation vehicle managed by the same private equity sponsor.
• Leading direct lender as lender and administrative agent in connection with US$280,000,000 revolving credit and term loan (including delayed draw term loan) facilities used to finance the acquisition of a provider of vegetation management, power line clearance, electric utility line construction, storm damage relief, and the manufacturing, installation and maintenance of custom control panels.