Partner
Paul, Weiss
Larry Wee is a partner in the Corporate Department at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and a member of the firm’s Capital Markets, Finance and Restructuring Groups. Larry’s practice focuses on a variety of capital markets and finance transactions, securities regulation and restructuring matters. He has been recognized by The Legal 500 as a leading capital markets lawyer as well as by Lawdragon as one of their “500 Leading U.S. Bankruptcy and Restructuring Lawyers.” Larry’s practice includes public and private equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and offerings of asset-backed securities. He also represents public companies in connection with their ongoing securities law and corporate governance matters and advises in connection with public mergers and acquisitions transactions. Larry has extensive experience in debt consent solicitations, debt restructurings, restructuring financings and exchange offers.
Larry’s recent noteworthy representations include Canopy Growth Corporation, an NYSE- and TSX-listed caannabis products company, in a $750 million secured term loan financing (its first such financing in the U.S.), Revlon Consumer Products Corporation with respect to a $1.9 billion secured loan refinancing transaction, a $200 million secured additional term loan, $2.2 billion of secured acquisition financing and Rule 144A offerings of a total of $950 million of senior unsecured notes; Carnival Corporation & plc in four post-COVID first- and second-lien bank and bond secured financings and two post-COVID unsecured bond financings totaling more than $15.9 billion and in amendments to more than $20 billion of its pre-COVID debt; ad hoc groups of first-lien lenders in the chapter 11 reorganizations of Frontier Communications and Windstream; and an ad hoc group of unsecured note holders in the structuring of the exchange offers and resulting debt and equity securities in the $2.5 billion out-of-court restructuring of Neiman Marcus Group and MyTheresa. Larry’s public company clients include Taylor Morrison Home Corporation, Movado Group, Inc., vTv Therapeutics Inc. and Emmis Communications Corporation. Larry also represents private equity and other funds in leveraged buyouts, including affiliates of Oaktree Capital Management, MacAndrews & Forbes, KPS Capital Partners and Oak Hill Capital Partners.
