Meir Dominitz is a partner at Gornitzky GNY
Meir advises lenders and borrowers on a wide variety of financing transactions, including leveraged M&A and LBOs, syndicated and direct-lending transactions, asset-based financing, investment-grade financing. and complex liability management transactions and other distress situations.
Prior to joining Gornitzky, Meir has spent more than 15 years specializing in banking and finance in the New York offices of Cravath, Davis Polk, Gibson Dunn and most recently, as a partner, at Mayer Brown.
During his career in New York, Meir has represented many of the most active financial institutions on Wall Street, such as Bank of America, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan in their capacities as arrangers, agents and lenders of public and private debt. Additionally, he has represented many of the leading private equity sponsors, such as Brookfield Asset Management, CVC Capital Partners, Elliot Investment Management and KKR, as well as private and public companies, including S&P 500 companies, such as CBRE Group, First Solar, IBM and Mondelez International in connection with their issuance of debt and related matters.
Recent USA experience includes:
Lender Side Syndicated Financing
- The arrangers and agents, in connection with the $4.5 billion financing made available to FirstEnergy and certain of its operating subsidiaries.
- The lenders, in connection with the $500 million delayed draw green term loan facility made available to Silver Peak Solar to finance its construction of solar panel fields.
- The lenders, in connection with the $315 million collateralized term loan facility made available to Capital Vacations, a portfolio company of Apollo Management.
- The arranger and agent, in connection with the $1.75 billion funding note facility made available to Apollo Capital Management to finance its acquisition of the vehicles leasing and fleet management business of Hertz.
- The arranger and agent, in connection with the $150 million ABL facility made available to Ammex corporation.
- The arranger and agent, in connection with the $555 million first and second lien facilities made available to Genstar Capital Management to finance its acquisition of Boyd Holding.
Private Credit Financing
- An asset manager, in connection with the $350 million financing made available to WeWork Companies.
- A direct lending fund, in connection with the $900 million financing made available to Sixth Street Partners and KKR & Co. to finance their acquisition of GreenSky.
Borrower Side Financing
- A publicly-traded engineering, procurement and construction company, in connection with its $2 billion multi-currency and multi-jurisdictional revolving credit and term loan facilities.
- A publicly-traded provider of intelligent systems for wealth management and financial wellness, in connection with its $500 million revolving credit facility.
- A publicly-traded reinsurance company, in connection with its $75 million term loan facility and $200 million letters of credit facility.
- A publicly-traded REIT, in connection with its $70 million term loan facility.
Restructuring
- The agent and the revolving credit lenders, in connection with a debt financing and exchange transaction by GEO Group.
- The agent and the lenders, in connection with the out of court restructuring of the capital structure (debt and equity) of a private equity backed developer of patented radio frequency and digital video processing equipment.
- The agent and the lenders, in connection with the out of court restructuring and conversion of first and second lien facilities of a private equity backed global marketing and digital solutions company.
- A privately held poultry company, in connection with its out of court restructuring of $775 million of existing debt and the raise of $250 million in new debt.
