Margaret G. Parker-Yavuz
Partner
Areas of Focus
- Institutional Private Placements
- Private Credit
- Leveraged Finance
- Financial Restructuring
- Corporate & Finance
- Special Situations & Private Credit
- Special Situations
- Maggie is one of the accomplished lawyers who was promoted to the partnership, effective January 1, 2022. Watch the video to meet Margaret here.
- Represents institutional investors, investment funds and other lenders in a range of U.S. and cross-border debt financing transactions.
- Advises on out-of-court workouts and restructurings.
Maggie represents institutional investors, investment funds and other lenders in complex debt financing transactions. She advises on secured and unsecured private placements of notes, direct lending facilities and other debt financing transactions involving borrowers across the credit spectrum and the globe in a wide range of industries.
Maggie’s experience includes representing lenders in cash flow and asset-based lending transactions, first and second lien financings, “one-stop” financings and mezzanine financings. She has extensive experience with cross-border transactions involving borrowers in Mexico and other Latin American jurisdictions, as well as the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. She also advises lenders in out-of-court workouts and restructurings.
- Represented the investors in a private placement of $115 million of senior notes issued by Procaps S.A., a Colombian prescription and over-the-counter drug developer and manufacturer. The notes were guaranteed by the group’s Luxembourg parent company, Procaps Group, S.A., and subsidiaries organized in various jurisdictions.
- Represented the lenders in an A$90 million secured revolving credit and term loan facility for an Australian company in the construction equipment sector.
- Advised institutional investors in a private placement of around €750 million of “green” senior notes issued by a subsidiary of Kingspan Group plc, an Irish manufacturer of insulation and building envelope solutions.
- Advised institutional investors in a private placement of $200 million of senior notes jointly issued by two affiliated Mexican companies engaged in the operation of natural gas pipelines, natural gas distribution and related services.
- Represented the lenders in a $32 million secured revolving credit and term loan facility for a U.S. borrower in the animal health and nutrition industry, with guarantees and security provided by affiliates organized in the United States and Ireland.
EducationJ.D., Harvard Law School, 2003
A.B., Brown University, magna cum laude, 1999
J.D., Harvard Law School, 2003
A.B., Brown University, magna cum laude, 1999
Bar AdmissionsConnecticut
District of Columbia
New York
Connecticut
District of Columbia
New York
- Fulbright Scholar, Ankara, Turkey, 1999–2000.
- Brown University, Samuel C. Lamport Award in International Understanding.
- Brown University, Outstanding Student in Old World Archaeology and Art.
- Brown University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1999.
- Fellow, American College of Investment Counsel
- Member, American College of Investment Counsel Membership Committee and Communications Committee
- Panelist, Latin American Investments & Market Update – “Mexican Withholding Tax Credit for Interest on Corporate Bonds,”ACIC 2021 Spring Investment Forum, April 2021.
- Panelist, Select Model Form Provisions – “Make-Whole Amount: Its Purpose, History, Recent Case Law, and Calculation,” ACIC 2016 Spring Investment Forum, Chicago, April 2016.