Lucas T. Charleston
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Special Situations & Private Credit
- Financial Restructuring
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & Finance
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Represents credit funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and other alternative capital providers, as well as companies and traditional financial institutions
- Focuses on direct and syndicated lending transactions, high yield bond deals, stressed, distressed, rescue and other special situations financings and transactions, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings.
Luke Charleston focuses on direct and syndicated lending transactions, high yield bond deals, stressed, distressed, rescue and other special situations financings and transactions, and in-court and out-of-court restructurings. He also advises on acquisition and corporate financings.
Luke works with credit, hedge and private equity funds and other alternative capital providers. He also represents companies and traditional financial institutions.
Luke has significant experience with a wide variety of transaction structures, including:
- Syndicated, club and bilateral loans
- High yield bond deals
- Debtor-in-possession and exit financings
- First lien/second lien structures
- Split collateral structures
- Unitranche financings
- Priming / uptier financings
- Exchange transactions
- Distressed-for-control investments
Luke has worked on transactions across a range of industries including energy, gaming, retail, media, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, technology, security and health care.
- Represented GTT Communications Inc. in connection with a $140.0 million incremental term loan and a $275.0 million priming term loan as well as its Chapter 11 restructuring, including $800.0 million of exit term loan financing.
- Represented Apollo Global Management in connection with a $700 million debtor-in-possession facility to Scandinavian Airlines.
- Represented Monarch Alternative Capital and other lenders in connection with a $500.0 million first lien term loan facility to Dhanani Group, Inc., the second largest quick-service restaurant franchisee group in the United States.
- Represented Francisco Partners in a $225 million first lien term loan to Eventbrite, Inc., a global self-service ticketing and experience technology platform; a $250 million term loan to 8x8 Inc., a leading integrated cloud communications platform provider; and a $60 million first lien term loan to Reciprocity, Inc., a leader in information security, risk and compliance.
- Represented an ad hoc lender group in connection with the Chapter 11 restructuring of Chuck E. Cheese, including a $200 million debtor-in-possession facility and $375 million of exit term loan financing.
EducationJ.D., New York Law School, magna cum laude, 2008
B.A., Monmouth University, magna cum laude, 2005
J.D., New York Law School, magna cum laude, 2008
B.A., Monmouth University, magna cum laude, 2005
Bar AdmissionsNew York
New York
- Private Debt Investor, Rising Stars of 40 Under 40, 2020.
- Private Debt Investor, Deals of the Decade.
- The Legal 500 United States, Nationally Recommended.
- Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2015-2020.
- IFLR1000, Rising Star.