Stephen K.
Koo

A partner in the Finance Group, Stephen has extensive experience representing corporate borrowers, private equity sponsors and lenders in a wide range of leveraged and acquisition finance transactions.

Some of his recent representations include:

• Capri Holdings Limited in connection with its $1.95 billion in credit facilities, as well as the financing aspects of its acquisitions of Jimmy Choo and Versace
• Kymera International, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity Partners engaged in the manufacture and sale of specialty materials, in the financing aspects of its acquisition of Fiven, a Norway-based producer of silicon carbide materials
• Continental Grain Company in connection with its senior secured credit facility as well as the financing aspects of the acquisition by its joint venture with Cargill of Sanderson Farms, with a total equity value of $4.5 billion
• Virtu Financial in the refinancing of its $1.545 billion in senior secured credit facilities, as well as the financing aspects of its acquisitions of KCG Holdings and Investment Technology Group
• Kohlberg & Co. in connection with the debt financing transactions for several of its portfolio companies
• G-III Apparel Group in connection with its $700 million senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility
• Movado Group in connection with its senior secured revolving credit facility
• TeraWulf, a NASDAQ listed digital asset technology and Bitcoin mining company, in connection with its initial debt financing
• EQT and Lazer Logistics in the financing aspects of its acquisition of the spotting operations of Hirschbach Motor Lines