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Kevin A. McGinnis Partner

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Kevin, chair of the firm’s Debt Finance department, has structured, negotiated and documented senior debt financing arrangements of all types, including secured and unsecured single bank and syndicated credit agreements, multicurrency financing facilities, and acquisition financings for client that include, among others, national banking institutions.

He has worked on financings for manufacturing companies, retailer stores, healthcare providers, business consulting companies, and media outlets.

Kevin also has extensive experience documenting and negotiating credit facilities on behalf of banking institutions that lend to or invest in NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL professional sports franchises as well as English Premier League clubs, and in particular Kevin has worked with the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball and the National Football League in preparing loan documentation. Additionally, Kevin has represented the administrative agent in a variety of leveraged and investment grade syndicated and single-bank loan transactions. In part due to Kevin’s work on these matters, in 2016 McGuireWoods was selected as a Sports Group of the Year by Law360.

Kevin was a White Scholar at the Thomas J. White Center on Law and Government from 1997 to 1999. He was also a Lord Rothermere Scholar while attending the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in 1994.

Experience

  • Counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as agent and lender, for the construction loan facility for Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, GA.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent and lender, for the construction loan facility for UBS Arena in Belmont, NY.
  • Counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as agent and lender, in a $2 billion multicurrency loan to Lowe’s Companies, Inc.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent and lender, on multiple credit facilities made available to NFL “controlling owners”.
  • Counsel to Bank of America, N.A., as agent and lender, in a $315 million term loan facility to a MU Finance plc, a subsidiary of Manchester United plc.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in an $8 billion multicurrency loan to a manufacturing company.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $4 billion multicurrency loan to an engineering company.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $1.5 billion multicurrency loan to a multinational chemical company.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $3.2 billion sports leaguewide credit facility.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in connection with the purchase of and $160 million loan to an MLB franchise.
  • Counsel to an NBA franchise in a $50 million loan.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $200 million loan to an NFL member club.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $50 million loan to an MLB franchise.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $300 million loan to a fast food restaurant chain.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $95 million loan to an NHL franchise.
  • Counsel to a financial institution, as agent, in a $500 million multi-currency loan to an international construction company.
  • Counsel to financial institutions, as agent and co-arrangers, in a $1.3 billion loan to one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information.

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