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Gerum Yilma Partner

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Gerum is a member of the firm’s Board of Partners and serves on the firm’s finance committee. Gerum primarily focuses his practice on structuring, negotiating and documenting syndicated, club, single lender and multicurrency credit facilities. His experience includes cash-flow, asset-based, leveraged acquisition, dividend recapitalization and real estate financing transactions, including senior secured, pro rata, second lien and mezzanine loans.

He has extensive experience representing financial institutions on a wide range of complex financing transactions including the financing of life sciences companies (including pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors), physician practice management groups, senior care owners and operators, hospitals and other healthcare provider organizations. Gerum’s work has earned him recognition for banking and finance law in the prestigious Chambers USA guide, Legal 500 United States, Commercial Lending and in The Best Lawyers in America. Gerum is also a frequent speaker at McGuireWoods’ annual Healthcare Private Equity and Finance Conference.

Experience

  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $175,000,000 senior secured syndicated credit facility for a provider of occupational medicine and specialty care services.
  • Represented the administrative agent and co-lead arranger in connection with a $45,000,000 senior secured credit facility to support a private equity sponsor’s acquisition of a manufacturer of prosthetic devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $55,000,000 senior secured credit facility to finance the leveraged recapitalization of a manufacturer of medical devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and sole-lead arranger in connection with a $300,000,000 senior unsecured credit facility for a provider of water-related services.
  • Represented the lender in connection with a $40,000,000 senior secured credit facility for a provider of skilled nursing and long term care facilities.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $110,500,000 senior secured credit facility for a provider of services to long-term care facilities.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $175,000,000 senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of a distributor of medical devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $600,000,000 credit facility for a manufacturer of medical devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $100,000,000 senior secured credit facility for a manufacturer of life science and diagnostic devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $50,000,000 senior secured credit facility for a pharmaceutical company.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $37,500,000 senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of a contract manufacturer of medical devices.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $29,500,000 senior secured credit facility to finance the acquisition of medical office buildings.
  • Represented the administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with a $65,800,000 first-lien credit facility to finance the acquisition of a hospice company.