Christopher E. Lawrence
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Institutional Private Placements
- Financial Restructuring
- Energy & Infrastructure
- Private Credit
- Leveraged Finance
- Projects & Energy Transition
- Solar
- Private Capital
- Represents insurance companies, banks, investment funds and other lenders in a wide range of secured and unsecured debt and equity transactions.
- Advises on out-of-court workouts, reorganizations and restructurings.
Christopher Lawrence’s practice focuses on the representation of insurance companies, banks, investment funds and other lenders in a wide range of secured and unsecured debt and equity financing transactions, including:
- Private placement financings
- Mezzanine financings
- First and second lien debt financings
- “One-stop” and unitranche financings
- Private equity fund investments
- Private securities offerings.
His experience includes representing lenders in connection with leveraged buyouts, cash flow and asset-based lending transactions, project and infrastructure financings, bond financings, maritime financings and cross-border financings.
Christopher also represents lenders in out-of-court workouts, reorganizations and debt restructurings, and advises clients in the purchase and sale of distressed loans and other debt instruments.
- Counsel to institutional investors in connection with a back-leveraged debt financing for a portfolio of 14 solar projects.
- Represented institutional investors in connection with the private placement of approximately $2.5 billion in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes issued by a 1940 Act-registered interval fund.
- Represented institutional investors in connection with the private placement of €300 million in aggregate principal amount of senior notes and the establishment of a €350 million shelf note facility for the Austrian national railway company.
- Represented a group of investment funds in connection with a $102 million second lien term loan and delayed draw loan facility and an $83 million preferred equity/hybrid debt investment for a polymer materials design company.
- Represented institutional investors in a series of private placement financings totaling £556 million in aggregate principal amount of senior secured notes in connection with a whole business securitization for a United Kingdom-based terminal port operator.
EducationJ.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1999
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1994
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1999
B.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1994
Bar AdmissionsConnecticut
New York
Connecticut
New York
- Counsel, Private Placement Investors Association (PPIA).
- Member, American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC).
- Member, ACIC’s Transaction Process Management Committee.
- Co-chair, ACIC Annual Meeting and Education Conference, October 2017.
- “The Consent, Amendment and Waiver Process,” Public Policy and International Affairs (PPIA) Annual Meeting, June 2023.
- “NAIC Knows Best: The Future of Filing Exempt Securities,” American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) Educational Conference, April 2022.
- “The Practical Impacts of COVID-19 on Private Placement Transactions”, American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) Webinar Presentation, April 2020.
- “Model Form Adjacent Issues”, ACIC 2019 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, New York, October 2019.
- “Getting Ahead of the Game,” ACIC 2015 Annual Meeting and Educational Conference, New York, October 2015.
- “LMA Private Placement Documentation,” ACIC 2015 Seminar, Chicago, April 2015.
- “Getting to ‘I Do’: Model Form/Deal Issues,” ACIC 2014 Spring Investment Forum, Chicago, April 2014.
