Practice Areas
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New York
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101 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10178-0060
Phone: 212.309.6074
Fax: 212.309.6001
Justin H. Wertman is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Business and Finance Practice. His practice focuses on secured and unsecured credit facilities, leveraged buy-outs and other acquisition financings, asset-based loans, cash flow loans, first lien and second lien financings, mezzanine and subordinated financings, film financings and other project financings, private placements, refinancings, workouts, restructurings, and other finance matters.
Mr. Wertman has an extensive background with private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, representing them in both domestic and multijurisdictional leveraged acquisitions. His practice also includes financings in the entertainment industry. He advises domestic and international financial institutions in their financing transactions with motion picture and television producers and distributors.
Mr. Wertman is admitted to practice in New York.
Selected Representations
- Agent banks in connection with a $45,000,000 senior secured multicurrency revolving credit facility for a distributor of motion picture and television product
- An agent bank in connection with a $185,000,000 senior secured revolving slate financing facility for an independent film production company
- A state pension fund in connection with its investment in a self-storage business and the restructuring of the company's €696,000,000 affiliated indebtedness
- A private equity sponsor in connection with a cross-border $35,000,000 financing consisting of a senior secured term loan and an asset based revolving credit facility to acquire a small motors business
- A manufacturer of home decor products in connection with the refinancing of its global indebtedness, consisting of a $78,000,000 North American senior secured first lien term loan and asset based revolving credit facility, a senior secured second lien term loan, a subordinated unsecured term loan and a holding company senior subordinated note issuance and a €45,000,000 European term loan A and B and revolving credit facility
- A private equity sponsor in connection with a $385,000,000 financing consisting of a U.S. revolving credit facility, a European revolving credit and liquidity backstop facility and a European receivables securitization to finance the acquisition of the emissions technology business of an automotive parts manufacturer
- Roll-over management in connection with the sale of a technology company and related $151,000,000 term loan B and revolving credit facilities
- A manufacturer of equipment for the commercial and newspaper printing industries in connection with the refinancing of its cross-border multicurrency $50,000,000 term loan and revolving credit facilities
- A private equity sponsor in connection with $300,000,000 of first lien and second lien credit facilities to finance the acquisition of a manufacturer of aluminum products, and subsequent representation of the portfolio company in connection with the restructuring and upsizing of the facilities by a combined $90,000,000 to facilitate two separate add-on acquisitions
- An agent bank in connection with a syndicated $25,000,000 senior secured delayed-draw term loan facility for a private fund investing in profit participations in the entertainment industry
- A newspaper publisher in connection with its $400,000,000 revolving credit facility
- A private equity sponsor in connection with a $225,000,000 bridge financing to acquire a manufacturer of flexible packaging products, and subsequent representation of the portfolio company in connection with the refinancing of the bridge with a permanent $60,000,000 cross-border credit facility and a $235,000,000 senior note issuance and subsequent restructuring and upsizing of the permanent credit facility by a combined $50,000,000 to facilitate two separate add-on acquisitions
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, 1997, J.D.
- City University of New York, Queens College, 1994, B.A.