CHRISTOPHER GLEASON is a corporate partner in Sidley’s Dallas office. His practice focuses on private equity, energy, financing transactions and debt restructurings. Christopher has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and public and private issuers in a wide variety of financing transactions in both the United States and abroad, with a concentration on acquisition financing, investment grade lending, cash-flow based lending, asset-based lending (including reserve-based lending for oil and gas transactions), mezzanine financing and subordinated debt financing. In addition, Christopher is experienced in debtor-in-possession and exit financing and workouts and restructurings. Christopher also regularly advises clients on working capital arrangements, debt compliance matters and corporate governance matters.

Representative Transactions:

• Advent International Corporation in the financing of their acquisition of Serta Simmons Holdings 

• Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in their disposition of oil and gas assets located in the Marcellus Shale

• Apollo Capital Management in connection with the management of a loan portfolio

• Archrock Partners, L.P. in connection with their senior secured credit facility

• Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC in connection with their corporate credit facilities

• Athene Holding Ltd. in connection with their corporate credit facilities and acquisition financings

• BancTec, Inc. in their corporate credit facility refinancing 

• Beacon Roofing Supply, Inc. in connection with their corporate credit facilities, acquisition financings and issuance of senior secured notes

• Berkshire Partners in the financing of their acquisition of Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. 

• Billabong International Limited in connection with the refinancing of their abl facility

• Brazos Investment Partners, L.P. in their merger and combined refinancing of Ennis Paint, Inc. and Flint Trading, Inc. 

• CCMP in the financing of their acquisition of LHP Hospital Group, Inc.

• Cambium Equity Partners, LLC in the financing for the acquisition of ABS Operations, LLC

• CIP Capital Fund II in the financing for the acquisition of Wilson Human Capital Group, Inc.

• Centerbridge Partners, L.P. in the financing of their acquisition of Rock Bottom Restaurants, Inc. and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants Group, Inc.

• ClearPoint Investment Partners in the financing of their acquisition of Accommodations Plus Technologies LLC 

• Eagle Materials Inc. in connection with their corporate credit facilities

• EIG Management Company, LLC and Tailwater Capital LLC in the negotiation of a syndicated credit facility for BBTS Borrower LP (a wholly-owned subsidiary of BlackBrush TexStar LP) 

• EIG Management Company, LLC, as agent, in the restructuring of Tarpon Operating & Development, L.L.C. 

• Generac Power Systems, Inc. in connection with their corporate credit facilities and acquisition financings

• General Electric Company in connection with the disposition of their GECC leveraged finance business

• Great Hill Partners in the financing for their acquisition of EnterpriseDB Corporation

• Great Hill Partners in the financing for the acquisition of intellectual property assets from International Business Machines Corporation

• Great Hill Partners in their refinancing of the credit facilities for Ikon Parent Limited

• Hennessy Capital in connection with several SPAC related acquisition financings

• Hermetic Solutions Group LLC in the financing of their acquisition of Hi-Rel Group, LLC

• Hicks Sports Group in their financing and management of Texas Rangers Baseball Partners and Dallas Stars, L.P. 

• Hunt Consolidated, Inc. in their corporate credit facility refinancing 

• Kinder Morgan, Inc. in the financing of their acquisition of El Paso Corporation 

• Lindsay Goldberg LLC in their refinancing of the credit facilities of PL Propylene LLC 

• Luxor Capital Group, LP in connection with a SPAC related acquisition financing

• MidCap Finco Limited in financing of their acquisition of a loan portfolio

• Milacron LLC in the financing of their acquisition of Mold-Masters Luxembourg Holdings S.a.r.l 

• Natixis S.A. in their financing of Great Northern Midstream LLC

• Nektar Therapeutics in connection with their issuance of senior secured notes

• Prospect Partners in the financing of their acquisition of All Glass & Windows, LLC

• Prospect Partners in the financing of their acquisition of QMI Security Solutions

• Prospect Partners in the financing of their acquisition of Wedgewood Hospitality Group, Inc.

• Rohrer Corporation in the financing of their acquisition of Transparent Container Co., Inc.

• ShoreView Industries, LLC in the financing of their acquisition of Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc.

• ShoreView Industries, LLC in the financing of their acquisition of California Retina Associates

• Susser Holdings Corporation in the financing of their acquisition of Town & Country 

• Texas Instruments Incorporated in their corporate credit facility refinancing 

• Thomas H. Lee Partners in the financing of their acquisitions and subsequent refinancings of Intermedix Corporation and Acosta, Inc. 

• An investor group in the financing of the acquisition of the Tampa Bay Lightning

• Vector Capital Corporation in the financing of the acquisition of CollabNet, Inc.

• World Wide Packaging, LLC in their corporate credit facility refinancing

Christopher has represented a number of companies in connection with their in and/or out of court restructuring, workout and related financing transactions including: Texas Rangers Baseball Partners; Simmons Company; Hawkeye Renewables LLC; Electrical Components International, Inc.; Brightstar Corp.; Panolam Industries International Incorporated; Isola USA Corp. and International Aluminum Corporation.

Christopher was recognized as a “Texas Rising Star” by Super Lawyers in 2010.