Nick Wetzeler
Associate Capital Markets
nick.wetzeler@kirkland.com
Dallas +1 214 972 1773
Nick Wetzeler is a corporate associate in the Dallas office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Southwestern Energy Company (NYSE: SWN) and selling stockholders in connection with an underwritten secondary offering of 63,976,376 shares of common stock for gross proceeds to the selling stockholders of $328 million.
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) and certain selling shareholders in connection with an underwritten public offering resulting in total gross proceeds of approximately $231.5 million.
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT), the largest natural gas company by production in North America, in connection with a $596 million public offering by certain of its shareholders.
Energy Spectrum Capital-backed ESGEN Acquisition Corp, an energy transition SPAC, in its $240 million initial public offering.
Thoughtworks Holding, Inc. (NASDAQ: TWKS) in connection with its $840 million initial public offering of common stock.
Freestone Acquisition Corp in connection with its proposed $200 million initial public offering.
Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) in connection with its registration of 18 million shares of common stock held by certain of its stockholders.
Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR) in connection with its "at-the-market" offering of 10 million shares of common stock.
Freshpet, Inc. (NASDAQ: FRPT) in connection with its $330 million follow-on public offering of common stock.
High Yield and Investment Grade Debt Offerings
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager, in its Rule 144A offering of $500 million of senior notes.
Ladder Capital Finance Holdings LLLP and Ladder Capital Finance Corporation in connection with their $650 million 144A/Reg. S offering of senior notes.
Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES), a leading global alternative investment manager, in connection with its $450 million 144A/Reg. S offering of fixed-rate resettable subordinated notes.
Avis Budget Car Rental, LLC and Avis Budget Finance, Inc. in connection with their $500 million 144A/Reg. S offering of senior notes.
Acquisition Financings
EQT Corporation (NYSE: EQT) in connection with its $1.0 billion 144A/Reg. S offering of two tranches of senior notes to finance the acquisition of Alta Resources Development, LLC and related Exchange Act reporting compliance.
Allied Universal, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in connection with its $4.5 billion 144A/Reg S offering of five tranches of high-yield senior secured notes denominated in USD, Euro and sterling to finance the acquisition of G4S plc.
Restructuring and Liability Management Transactions
Washington Prime Group Inc. and eighty-eight of its affiliates ("WPG") in their prearranged chapter 11 cases in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. WPG owns, develops, and manages retail real estate across the United States, including enclosed and open air retail properties, with a portfolio comprising material interests in 102 shopping centers across the United States. As of the petition date, WPG had approximately $3.9 billion of funded debt.
A private equity firm in connection with its majority investment in a business process automation software provider.
Exchange Act Reporting
Thoughtworks Holding, Inc.
EQT Corporation
Avis Budget Group, Inc.
Freshpet, Inc.
2020Texas
University of Virginia School of LawJ.D.2020
Editorial Board, Virginia Tax Review
Iowa State UniversityB.S., Financesumma cum laude2016
20 October 2021 Press Release Kirkland Advises ESGEN Acquisition on its $240 Million IPO