Christine Dreyer McCay

Christine represents financial institutions, including banks, investment funds, and finance companies, as well as private equity sponsors and public and private operating companies. She assists clients with a broad range of debt financing transactions, such as syndicated senior credit facilities, second lien, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings, distressed debt investments, restructuring and recapitalization transactions, and high-yield bond issuances.

Christine understands clients’ unique needs and delivers tailored solutions. With her guidance, clients have secured significant financing, restructured debt, and completed pivotal acquisitions, enhancing their financial stability and growth potential.

Christine is the managing partner of the firm’s Boston office.

• Advised Table Talk Pies, a family owned food manufacturing business, in its sale to Rise Baking Company, a leading bakery manufacturer.
• Advised affiliates of Trent Capital Partners in the acquisition of Microporous, a leading manufacturer of high-performance battery separators for lead-acid batteries, and the related credit facility transaction.
• Advised an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, in the acquisition of the Pride retail chain of stores and the related credit facility transaction.
• Represented ArcLight Capital Partners in its sale of Pride Convenience Holdings, LLC, which operates 31 convenience stores in highly desirable locations, to ARKO, one of the largest operators of convenience stores and wholesalers of fuel in the U.S., for a purchase price of approximately $230 million.
• Represented Phoenix Tower International, a wireless communications infrastructure provider, in the combination, amendment, and restatement of five senior secured credit facilities into a single $2.0 billion multifacility transaction.
• Represented KPS Mid-Cap Investments, an affiliate of KPS Capital Partners, in the acquisition of Libertas Copper LLC (dba Hussey Copper) and the related credit facility transaction.
• Represented Lamar Advertising Company in several financing transactions, including $1.7 billion senior secured credit facilities; a $250 million accounts receivable securitization program; and multiple high yield debt transactions: $600 million 3.75% notes due 2028; $550 million 4.00% notes due 2030; $400 million 4.875% notes due 2029; and $550 million 3.625% senior notes due 2031.
• Advised Kofile, Inc., and its majority investor, Audax Private Equity, in its acquisition of Bizodo, Inc. (d/b/a SeamlessDocs), and the related financing transactions.
• Represented agents and arrangers in syndicated lending transactions, including a $600 million senior secured cross-border credit facility for an international industrial supplier; a $250 million senior secured credit facility for a wine and spirits distributor; a $200 million senior unsecured credit facility for a public utility holding company; and multiple senior subordinated debt financings for a middle market private equity firm investing in manufacturing companies.

• Latin Lawyer, Deal of the Year (2023)
• Proximo, Latin American Deal of the Year (2022)
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, Top Women of Law (2021)