Maya Grant

Primary Focus & Experience

Ms. Grant focuses on bespoke, strategic financing solutions for direct lending and private credit transactions, sponsor LBO’s, unitranche financings, rescue and distressed credits, liability management exercises and in- and out-of-court restructurings. She represents both borrowers and lenders, including financial institutions, credit funds, hedge funds and ad hoc creditor groups, across a broad spectrum of industries, including sponsor and non-sponsor deals.

Ms. Grant’s experience includes:

• Representing credit fund in establishing a diversified direct lending platform and capital sourcing arrangements
• Representing lenders in connection with investments in Envision/AmSurg and the related chapter 11 cases
• Representing Incora (Wesco Aircraft) in a comprehensive recapitalization and debt exchange, including a liquidity infusion from Silver Point and other bondholders
• Representing existing lenders to retailer, J.Crew, in providing new financing collateralized by the J.Crew brand and related IP, and in connection with the company’s chapter 11 cases
• Representing a private credit fund in a middle market rescue financing for a private label consumer products manufacturer and distributor.
• Representing a club of lenders in financing the acquisition of office supplies retailer, Staples, Inc., by Sycamore Partners
• Representing a private credit fund in a first-out/last-out financing for the acquisition of lift services provider Columbia Helicopters
• Representing a private credit fund in a carve-out acquisition financing for the purchase by One Rock Capital Partners of a US chemical business of BASF Group
• Representing an ad hoc creditor group in a priming financing for global telecommunications provider, GTT Communications, Inc., and in connection with the company’s ch. 11 cases
• Representing a private credit fund in financing for The Beachbody Company, a publicly-listed digital fitness and nutrition subscription provider
• Representing a private credit fund in connection with the recapitalization of specialty apparel retailer rue21
• Representing ad hoc creditor group in the chapter 11 cases and exit financing for hospital group Quorum Healthcare
• Representing a hedge fund in its secondary market investment in McDermott International, energy and construction services provider for the energy industry, and in connection with the company’s super priority term facility
• Representing Brazilian corn-ethanol producer, FS Bioenergia, in connection with multiple capital raises, including its green bonds issuance
• Representing ASX-listed mining services provider, Boart Longyear, in connection with its restructuring cases in Australia and the US

Recognition & Accomplishments

Ms. Grant received her J.D. cum laude from New York Law School, where she served as a Law Review editor, and her B.A. cum laude from New York University.