Joshua W Thompson

JOSHUA THOMPSON focuses his practice on complex financings, including acquisition financings and other leveraged lending (including leveraged buyouts, tender offers, and other ongoing private transactions), liability management transactions, structured financings (including securitizations, back-leverage financings, warehouses and CLOs), asset-based lending, second lien financings, and mezzanine investments. He has experience representing borrowers and sponsors, lender syndicates and other creditors, agents for lender syndicates, management, and investors in complex restructurings, workouts, bankruptcies, and acquisitions of troubled companies. As counsel for direct lenders and other principal investors, private equity sponsors, and lead arrangers, Josh is involved in all aspects of deal structuring, negotiation, and documentation. He also maintains an active practice in structuring and advising finance companies and other private capital debt providers, as well as multi-asset managers, in building debt investment platforms. Josh’s engagements have ranged across a wide array of industries, including automotive, airline, chemical, energy, financial services, gaming, healthcare/life sciences, infrastructure (including data centers), manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, retail, satellites, shipping, and telecommunications.

Josh represents a variety of large financial institutions, including private equity firms, hedge funds, banks, and non-bank credit providers. He also regularly advises major global corporate borrowers.