Frederick C. Fisher has a diverse finance practice focused on the representation of corporate and lending clients (including banks, commercial finance institutions, private equity funds, and public and private corporations) in connection with complex domestic and international financing transactions at all levels of the capital structure on a secured or unsecured basis.
His representations include leveraged buyouts, working capital financings, cash flow and asset-based financings, add-on acquisitions, cross-border and multi-currency financings, securitizations, high-yield offerings, exchange offers, debtor-in-possession financings and numerous other in and out of court workouts and restructurings.
Areas of Concentration
ˇ Banking
ˇ Finance
Significant Representations
ˇ Representation of agent banks in a wide variety of syndicated loan facilities including the following:
- $1.2 billion bank and bond financing of cross-border take-private of Linens 'N Things.
- Acquisition financing for an approximately $240 million roll-up of multiple water and family fun parks located throughout the United States.
- Acquisition financing for a strategic purchase of a large paper mill from Kraft Paper Corporation.
- Acquisition financing for an international restaurant franchisee (including Sizzler restaurant chain) in the United States, Australia and Canada.
- Acquisition financing for a large franchisee of Wendy's fast-food restaurant chains located throughout the Midwest.
- Acquisition and start-up facility for a Florida-based private equity fund used to acquire small-cap regional service and manufacturing companies in the Southeastern United States.
- Acquisition financing for a large chemical company's purchase of various mineral producers in the Southeastern United States.
- Acquisition financing for the take-private of America's Best Contacts & Eyeglasses and National Vision (a national retailer of custom eyeglasses and contact lenses).
- Acquisition financing for a Canadian private equity fund's purchase of a U.S. manufacturer/importer of traffic technology and camera systems used by state and local municipalities.
- Acquisition financing for an Australian private equity fund's purchase of a global producer of malt and similar products (including facilities and collateral located in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada).
- Acquisition financing for a provider of elderly and disabled home health care services in the Southwestern United States.
- Various asset-based working capital loan facilities for large U.S. steel producers.
- Asset-based working capital loan facility for a large importer of women's clothing and related products.
- Credit facility and workout of a complex loan to a start-up Southern California acute care hospital and affiliated entities.
- Out-of-court workout and recapitalization for a mid-cap company providing medical helicopter and single wing rescue flight operations in the Southwestern and Midwestern states.
ˇ Representation of various companies and private equity funds including the following:
- Large international chemical company in a multinational asset-based loan facility with assets in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, France, Netherlands (and various other European jurisdictions), Mexico, Brazil, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong.
- Large international specialty pump and equipment manufacturer in various revolving and term loan facilities.
- Natural gas utility company in various revolving and term loan facilities.
- Private equity fund in the acquisition and financing of a leading multinational provider to numerous financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies of security information services (representations included the negotiation of various local law agreements in the United Kingdom, Poland, India, Hong Kong, Panama and other jurisdictions).
- IT waste disposal company in the negotiation and revision of its credit facilities and certain other workout matters.
- Large Dubai investment fund as U.S. local counsel in the potential acquisition of exclusive dealership arrangement for sales in the Middle East of U.S. manufactured corporate jets.
- Strategic hedge fund investor in the acquisition of a controlling position in a provider of disease management support services for chronically ill patients and physicians and subsequent capital infusions.
- Private holding company in capital infusion and subsequent workout of one of its portfolio companies involved in the manufacture of recycled composite rail-road ties and other similar products.
- Private equity fund in workout, restructuring and potential acquisition of a large-scale "green" production facility of glass wine bottles.
*Certain of the above representations were handled by Fred prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Professional & Community Involvement
ˇ Member, Chicago Bar Association
ˇ Board Member, Open Books, a Chicago-based literacy non-profit organization
Awards & Recognition
ˇ Selected, Super Lawyers magazine - Rising Stars Edition, 2012