Brian Janson is Global Co-Head of Capital Markets and a partner in the Paul, Weiss Finance Group. His practice focuses on advising clients on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, leveraged finance transactions and general disclosure and corporate governance matters.
Janson has broad experience in representing issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, secondary offerings, investment grade and high-yield debt offerings, preferred stock offerings and other public and private securities transactions.
He also advises clients in connection with M&A transactions, acquisition financings, leveraged loans, debt and equity tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and restructurings.
Janson’s experience includes:
Equity Offerings
- University of Phoenix in its $156.4 million initial public offering
- Sun Country Airlines Holdings in its:
- $251 million initial public offering
- secondary offerings
- Intelsat in its $400 million initial public offering and a concurrent offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company in its $252 million initial public offering
- Osiris Acquisition Corp. in its $230 million initial public offering
- North Mountain Merger Corp. in its $132 million initial public offering
- Credit Suisse, as the lead underwriter, in the:
- $258 million initial public offering by Crucible Acquisition Corporation
- $414 million initial public offering by Orion Acquisition Corp
- $300 million initial public offering by ESM Acquisition Corporation
High-Yield & Investment Grade Debt Offerings
- Atlas Warehouse Lending Company in its offerings of investment grade notes
- U.S. Silica Holdings in its offering of senior secured high-yield notes
- Univar Solutions in its offering of senior secured high-yield notes
- MidCap Financial in its offerings of senior unsecured high-yield notes
- Apollo Global Management in its offering of senior notes
- Shutterfly in its offerings of senior secured high-yield notes and senior unsecured high-yield notes
- Qdoba Restaurant Corporation in its offering of senior secured high-yield notes
- Ply Gem Holdings in its offerings of senior secured and unsecured high-yield notes
- Foresight Energy in its offering of senior secured high-yield notes
- Chubb in its offering of investment grade notes
Mergers & Acquisitions
- ABC Technologies in the financing aspects of its takeover bid of TI Fluid Systems, valued at just over £1 billion
- Affiliates of Crestview Partners in connection with financing the acquisition of DS Waters of America
- Redbox, a multiplatform destination for new-release movies and entertainment, in its combination with Seaport Global Acquisition Corp.
Credit Facilities
- Arconic in its asset-backed credit facility and term loan facility
- AP Gaming in its senior secured credit facilities
- Rackspace in its senior secured credit facilities
- Qdoba Restaurant Corporation in its senior secured credit facilities
- Invited (formerly ClubCorp) in its senior secured credit facilities
- Coinstar in its senior secured credit facilities
- Verso Corporation in connection with its debtor-in-possession credit facilities and its senior secured credit facilities upon emergence from bankruptcy
