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Gregory A. Ezring

Partner, Paul Weiss

212-373-3458gezring@paulweiss.com

1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019

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Vice Chair of Paul, Weiss, Global Co-Chair of Finance and Capital Markets and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, Greg Ezring focuses his practice on the representation of private equity funds and other alternative asset managers, including Apollo Global Management, and their portfolio companies in leveraged finance transactions (including both high yield bonds and leveraged loans), debt restructurings and public equity offerings.

Lawdragon Honors

Honor Year Practice
The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers 2027 Private Equity, Leveraged Finance, Restructuring
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2026 Finance, Capital Markets
The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2026 Private Equity, Leveraged Finance, Restructuring
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2025 Finance, Capital Markets
The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America 2025 Private Equity, Leveraged Finance, Restructuring
The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2024 Private Equity, Alternative Assets
The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2022 Corporate, esp. Finance
The 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2021 Corporate, esp. Finance
The 2016 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America 2016
The 2014-15 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers 2014-2015
The 2013 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers 2013
The 2012 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers 2012

Ezring has experience representing alternative asset managers in investments in leveraged debt instruments (or portfolios of leveraged debt investments) in both un-levered and leveraged transactions in a variety of structures, including total return swaps. He has been involved in various matters with Apollo Global Management as well as their current and former portfolio companies, including ABC Technologies, ADT Security Services, Atlas SP Partners, Bridge Investment Group, Brightspeed, ClubCorp, Coinstar, Covis Pharma, Cox Media Group, EmployBridge, Everi, Graanul Invest, Great Canadian Gaming, IGT Gaming, Intrado, LifePoint Health, Lottomatica, Maxim Crane Works, The New Home Company, Novolex, Rackspace, Shutterfly, Trace3, The Venetian and Verizon Media (n/k/a Yahoo!), among others.