Meng Ru
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Corporate & Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Special Situations
- Investment Management
- Royalty Monetization
- Technology
- Leveraged Finance
- Financial Restructuring
- Private Equity Transactions
- Private Equity
- Private Capital
- Focuses on complex domestic and international finance transactions.
- Advises clients in acquisition financings, direct lending, special situation financings and out-of-court and in-court restructurings.
- Helps clients optimize the value of their investments in distressed debt securities.
Meng has represented some of the most sophisticated financial institutions and their portfolio companies in domestic and international debt financings. Meng works with credit investors, financial sponsors and other investors and borrowers to creatively structure a wide range of forward-thinking and novel credit investments. This includes direct lending to private equity sponsors in connection with an acquisition, financing solutions to stressed and distressed companies, and growth capital transactions to emerging companies. She also has extensive experience in financing transactions in connection with leveraged buyouts, including first lien and second lien senior secured debt financings, bridge financings and private mezzanine debt financings. She has worked on a number of large financing deals with top-tier financial sponsors around the world.
Meng advises institutional investors and corporate clients in restructuring the balance sheets of overleveraged companies, including debt workouts and debt exchanges. She represents debtors and creditors in a range of financings, including rescue, debtor-in-possession (DIP) and exit. Meng also has a deep familiarity with the distressed debt market, and she offers practical advice to see transactions through to fruition. Additionally, she advises investors in their distressed investing activities.
- Represented an ad hoc group of lenders of Casa Systems, Inc. in the refinancing and extension transaction for Casa Systems’ Term Loan B senior secured debt.
- Represented an ad hoc group of second lien term loan lenders in connection with a restructuring and exchange of existing debt of West Marine.
- Advised Mubadala Capital in the credit facilities to finance its acquisition of AOG, LLC d/b/a TruFood Manufacturing.
- Represented Sungard as borrower in a $95.3 million term loan DIP facility and $50 million ABL DIP facility.
- Represented the Aeroméxico Ad Hoc Group in the Debtors’ $762.5 million extensive exit financing.
LanguagesChinese
Chinese
EducationLL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, 2004
LL.B., Fudan University Law School, China, 2000
LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, 2004
LL.B., Fudan University Law School, China, 2000
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- The Legal 500 US, Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers, 2022.
- Crain’s New York Business, Notable Women in Law, 2022.
- New York Law Journal, Rising Star, 2015.
- “From China to the World: Cross-Border Transactions,” Harvard China Law Association Symposium, 2017 and 2018.