| Biography | Robert L. Harris is a partner at Waller Lansden and leads the firm's Finance and Restructuring practice. Mr. Harris focuses primarily on the areas of corporate finance and commercial lending. He also has experience with mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings. Mr. Harris represents clients in structuring and establishing senior and subordinated credit facilities (including leveraged recapitalizations, acquisition and development financing and asset-based loans) and frequently represents borrowers in syndicated financings. He also has represented private equity firms in acquisition contexts. Mr. Harris represents a number of clients in health-care receivable financings and has been published on the topic. Mr. Harris has been involved in arranging more than $2.5 billion in financings for healthcare companies in the past three years. His recent experience includes: Representation of a healthcare technology company in its $135,000,000 senior credit facility and its mezzanine debt facility. Representation of a privately-held rural hospital company in connection with senior secured credit facility involving a $211,000,000 first lien and $72,000,000 second lien. Both tranches were syndicated; Representation of healthcare finance division of a publicly-traded company in connection with a $29,000,000 syndicated credit facility with a revolver and three term tranches; Representation of the healthcare finance division of a publicly-traded company in connection with a $47,100,000 syndicated first lien and second lien credit facilities to a behavioral healthcare company in an acquisition financing; Representation of an investor-owned hospital system in the negotiation and documentation of a $745,000,000 credit facility, including a revolver, term and incremental term components; Representation of a healthcare specialty lender in providing $6,000,000 receivables-based exit financing for a California-based hospital exiting bankruptcy; Representation of a private equity firm and its portfolio companies in re-negotiating and amending their senior credit facilities during the recent period of market turbulence; Representation of the healthcare finance division of a publicly-traded company in connection with a $47,000,000 first lien and second lien credit facilities to a home health company, with a significant private equity component; Representation of healthcare receivables lender in a $5,000,000 revolving asset-based loan to a medical device and services company, with operations nationwide. Representation of a privately-held company in a leveraged buyout to finance the purchase of a competing business in the pet product industry. Mr. Harris handled the financing of the transaction, which involved establishing a $195,000,000 senior credit facility, including a $45,000,000 revolving credit facility and a $150,000,000 term B facility; Representation of a publicly-traded ambulatory surgery center company in its $150,000,000 revolving credit facility which was subsequently amended to $195,000,000; Representation of a formerly publicly-traded hospital company in its $250,000,000 senior credit facilities; Representation of finance subsidiary of a publicly-traded manufacturing company in a $60,000,000 project financing of a series of three power generation stations in Brazil. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Harris practiced law in the Washington, D.C. office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP from 1993 to 1997. While at Skadden Arps, Mr. Harris focused on project financing of power plants and other infrastructure projects and closed transactions involving power stations in India, the Philippines and Turkey. Mr. Harris has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward White, Inc.) for his work in banking law. His article "Using the Double Lockbox to Navigate Healthcare Asset-Based Lending" was published in the January 2007 issue of ABF Journal. Clerkships and Previous Affiliations: Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, 1993-97. Professional Activities: Member, Tennessee, New York and District of Columbia Bar Associations. Civic and Other Activities: Member, Board of Trustees of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association-Tennessee Chapter, a non-profit corporation dedicated to finding a cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease); Member of Steering Committee committed to bringing an urban debate program to Nashville's public schools. Articles: 11/2/2009, For Existing Borrowers of CIT, Bankruptcy Filing Should Have No Effect; 10/28/2009, Section 363 Sales in the US; 9/23/2009, "Section 363 Sales In The US," Financier Worldwide, October 2009; 8/14/2009, Update - " HUD Proposes Tighter Standards of Eligibility for 242 Hospital Mortgage Insurance Program; 7/10/2009, HUD 242 Program - Hospital Mortgage Insurance: An Old Product Provides a New 100% Refinancing Option for Hospitals; 2/14/2009, Stimulus Package's Elective Tax Deferral Could Facilitate Workouts; 10/23/2008, First Round of Relief Under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act; 10/3/2008, Congress Passes Emergency Economic Stabilization Act; 9/18/2008, Firm Ranked Number One for Health Care, Government Relations, Mass Tort Litigation, Bankruptcy, Antitrust and Tax Law in Nashville and Tennessee; 9/11/2007, Waller Lansden News: Best Lawyers in America Honors 45 Waller Lansden Attorneys; 10/14/2004, Sixteen Waller Lansden Attorneys Named in the 2005-2006 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America Published by Woodward White, Inc. |