Colin Vo Kavanaugh

• Represented Atento on the acquisition of equity by institutional investors.
• Represented TowerBrook Capital Partners on the acquisition of CarTrawler.
• Represented a privately held exploration and production company and its subsidiary, as borrower, in a $600 million senior secured term loan credit facility.
• Represented a privately held exploration and production company in a multi-year, complex financial restructuring involving negotiations with institutional noteholders.
• Represented an infrastructure investment company, as borrower, in its financed acquisition of certain electricity generating facilities for $390 million.
• Represented a water midstream company in its financed acquisition of a water treatment and recycling company.
• Represented a privately held refining company in complex refinancing transactions involving a $612 million secured tax-exempt bond issuance, a $600 million secured tax-exempt bond redemption, a $90 million senior secured revolving credit facility and a $115 million secured inventory monetization and intermediation facility.
• Represented a privately held wind and solar development company in a $45 million senior secured credit facility.

Prior to joining Sidley, Colin worked on the following representative matters:

• Represented an electric company in its purchase of 100 percent of the interests in a holding company, which owned a New Jersey power plant valued at $450 million.
• Represented an underwriter in a NYSE-listed master limited partnership’s offering of retail preferred units valued at approximately $180 million.
• Represented an exploration and production company in its deferred like-kind exchange of properties, valued at $600 million, under Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code.

• As part of the Human Rights Initiative of North Texas, Colin assisted immigrant families in obtaining U Nonimmigrant Status visas.

• Member, American Bar Association