Overview
Craig Garvey has extensive experience providing counsel to publicly traded companies and leading various capital markets transactions for public and private companies, including the portfolio companies of prominent private equity funds. He also has significant experience with initial public offerings (IPOs), secondary offerings, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, liability management transactions, transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), restructurings and bankruptcies, and tender and exchange offers.
Craig has handled numerous equity offerings, bond offerings, and acquisition finance ranging from hundreds of millions to multibillions for large, high-profile domestic and international companies, including members of the Dow Jones, and bulge leading private equity funds.
Craig regularly advises publicly traded companies and their executive officers and directors on corporate governance, US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance and disclosure matters, investor relations considerations, corporate communications matters, and executive compensation.
Prior to joining the firm, Craig was a capital markets partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and a corporate associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. He also served as lead securities counsel for a Fortune 20 company.
Results
Equity offerings
- Represented an investor in connection with a $400 million perpetual convertible preferred PIPE investment in an NYSE listed industrial company
- Represented Ryan Specialty a provider of specialty products for insurance brokers, agents, and carriers, in its $1.6 billion Up-C IPO (NYSE)*
- Represented InnovAge Holding Corp.; Apax Partners; and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) in connection with InnovAge’s $400 million IPO (NASDAQ)*
- Represented TerraForm Global, Roundy’s Supermarkets, VWR, Civitas Solutions, Yankee Candle, and several other companies and underwriting syndicates in connection with proposed IPO processes*
- Represented GTCR in its $2.4 billion “take-public” sale of Cision to a SPAC and assisted with Cision’s subsequent listing on the NYSE*
Debt offerings
- Represented Ryan Specialty in connection with several senior secured notes offerings representing more than a billion dollars in proceeds*
- Represented Genuine Parts Company in connection with its first $500 million registered notes offering*
- Represented Six Flags Entertainment Corporation in connection with its $300 million, $800 million, and $1.2 billion 144A/Regulation S senior notes offerings*
- Represented Solera in connection with several high yield notes offerings representing more than a billion dollars in proceeds*
- Represented Navistar with multiple bond offerings, including its $1.1 billion high yield notes offering to effect a global balance sheet restructuring*
Acquisition finance
- Represented Madison Industries in connection with the Rule 144A offering of senior notes and senior secured notes by Madison IAQ in connection with a large acquisition*
- Represented Solera in its $1.73 billion bond financing in connection with its go-private sale to Vista Equity Partners*
Liability management transactions and restructurings
- Represented Carvana in connection with a consensual liability management transaction in the form of an exchange offer where it issued new secured notes and other consideration in exchange for $5.5 billion of existing unsecured notes, which transaction was formally supported by approximately 90% of its existing noteholders*
- Represented Toys “R” Us in its chapter 11 cases relating to the restructuring of its prepetition indebtedness exceeding $5.2 billion and its entry into debtor in possession facilities totaling $3.125 billion*
Corporate and transactional counseling
- Advised Ryan Specialty, Solera, Archer Daniels Midland, Walgreens Boots Alliance, InnovAge, Genuine Parts Company, Xerox, Lancaster Colony Corporation, a multinational airplane manufacturer, Six Flags, and Cision, among others, with respect to disclosure matters and other corporate advisory- and governance-related issues*
- Advised leading private equity funds, including Vista Equity Partners, WCAS, Apax Partners, Francisco Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, GTCR, and FTV Capital, in connection with capital markets transactions and governance considerations*
*Matter handled prior to joining the firm.
Credentials
Education
Syracuse University College of Law, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2009
Lawrence University, BA, 2004
Admissions
Illinois
New York
