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Provided by Kelly M Dybala
KELLY DYBALA is the head of the Global Finance group in Dallas and a co-leader of the firm's Leveraged Finance practice. She focuses her practice on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, liability management transactions, various financing transactions, and debt restructurings. Kelly represents borrowers, private equity funds, and direct lenders concentrating on acquisition financing, asset-based financing (including ABLs, factoring, and securitizations), cash-flow based financing, mezzanine financing, subscription, hybrid, and NAV financings, and subordinated debt and preferred equity financings. In addition, she is experienced in workouts, restructurings, and debtor-in-possession financings.
Kelly's financing experience extends across a wide variety of industries, including: beauty, energy, financial services and payment systems, food service (including fast casual and sit-down restaurants and food production and distribution), gaming, healthcare (including corporate practice of medicine, dentistry, and veterinary businesses), heavy industrials, insurance, logistics, retail, and wholesale businesses, telecommunications (including radio and television), technology and technology services, and wealth management and financial advisory firms.
Kelly has represented a number of leading private equity firms, including Advent International, Avista Capital, BDT Partners, BHMS, Berkshire Partners, Highview Capital, Great Hill Partners, Lindsay Goldberg, Lovell Minnick Partners, OMERS Private Equity, One Equity Partners, Providence Equity Partners, Siris Capital, Summit Partners, THL Partners, TowerBrook, TSG Consumers Partners, Wafra, and Z Capital Partners including many of their portfolio companies. Kelly regularly represents various investment firms in connection with their financing matters, including Castlelake, HighVista, Napier Park, and Pretium Partners. Kelly also represents corporate clients on both investment-grade and leveraged finance matters, including AFLAC, Bodega Latina Corporation, Casa Systems, IDEX Corporation, Fortegra Financial, Pier 1, Mattress Firm, Pennant Group, Raising Cane’s, Regal Rexnord, Tuesday Morning, United Pacific, Univision Communications, Vistra Corp., and Worldpay. Additionally, Kelly has counseled numerous clients in a variety of liability management transactions, including priming debt transactions, asset drop-downs, and other capital structure-optimizing activities.
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She's good at distilling complex information down into digestible content. She is also confident and assured and does not get stressed in matters.
Kelly is the attorney you call when you need to understand where the market is. She knows and is tied into the industry and can guide you to the right solution.
She's good at distilling complex information down into digestible content. She is also confident and assured and does not get stressed in matters.
Kelly is the attorney you call when you need to understand where the market is. She knows and is tied into the industry and can guide you to the right solution.