Josh Peary
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Private Credit
- Leveraged Finance
- Corporate & Finance
- Special Situations & Private Credit
- Special Situations
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Private Equity Transactions
- Focuses on complex financing transactions, including direct lending and other private credit investments, private equity-related corporate finance, special situation financings and recapitalizations, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings.
- Extensive experience advising both lenders and borrowers in a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions across sectors including technology, health care and consumer products, including leveraged buyouts, syndicated loan financings, cash flow and asset-based lending transactions and liability management transactions.
- Represents direct lenders, private credit investors and other private capital and alternative capital providers.
Josh concentrates on private capital transactions, including direct lending and private credit investments, special situation financings, rescue financings and other recapitalization transactions, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings. He has extensive experience advising on leveraged buyouts. Josh represents direct lenders, private credit investors and other private capital and alternative capital providers on a broad range of financing transactions.
Josh draws on a deep knowledge of private capital transactions and has experience across a variety of industry sectors. Clients benefit from his practical approach and strong understanding of market trends.
Prior to joining Akin, Josh was a partner at an international law firm.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with a $490 million senior secured term loan credit facility to Limetree Bay Terminals.
- Represented Bain Capital Credit in connection with an aviation lending joint venture with Griffin Global Asset Management.
- Represented a commercial finance company in a financing for the acquisition of a ski resort. The financing consisted of a $125 million term loan and $30 million revolver.
- Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with a $450 million senior secured term loan credit facility to Eastman Kodak Company.
- Represented Canyon Partners, as lender, in connection with the amendment and extension of maturity of LifeScan Global Corporation’s $275 million second-lien term loan credit facility.
EducationJ.D., Cornell Law School, 2013
B.S., Georgetown University, magna cum laude, 2010
J.D., Cornell Law School, 2013
B.S., Georgetown University, magna cum laude, 2010
Bar AdmissionsMassachusetts
Massachusetts
