Naho Kobayashi Partner

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Naho concentrates her practice in complex commercial and banking transactions. She primarily represents lenders and investors in debt financings and related equity investments in connection with acquisition financings for leveraged buy-outs and syndicated and bilateral cash flow and asset-based credit facilities, with an emphasis on transactions involving borrowers in various healthcare industries including but not limited to pharmaceuticals, medical devices and dentist and physician practice management. She has also represented lenders in the timberlands/forest products and cable/communications industries.

Naho leads the Alternative Lender sub-team of the McGuireWoods Financial Institutions Industry team. She has also served as co-chair of the McGuireWoods Recruiting Committee as well as a member of an external committee for a major financial institution providing advice with respect to that client’s internal ongoing diversity initiatives.

Experience

  • Represented the administrative agent in connection with a $275 million senior secured credit facility to a provider of therapeutic and behavioral health services.
  • Represented the administrative agent in connection with an approximately $132 million senior secured credit facility to a provider of mental and behavioral health services to children, families, and adults.
  • Represented a joint lead arranger in connection with a $186 million senior secured credit facility to a fertility clinic platform.
  • Represented the administrative agent and co-lead arranger in connection with an approximately $177 million USD Equivalent senior secured credit facility in connection with a private equity sponsor’s leveraged acquisition of a contract drug manufacturer and several related acquisitions of pharmaceutical assets in US and Canada.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $100 million senior secured credit facility for the leveraged buyout of a leading provider of home health benefits management services.
  • Represented the administrative agent and co-lead arranger in connection with a $45 million senior secured credit facility to support a private equity sponsor’s acquisition of a manufacturer of prosthetic devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $29 million senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition and refinancing of a manufacturer of medical devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $25 million senior secured credit facility to support a private equity sponsor’s acquisition of a network of clinics treating varicose veins.