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Heather L. Wenzel

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Heather Wenzel represents institutional investors, banks, and other lenders in a wide range of domestic and cross-border finance and restructuring transactions. Her practice is primarily focused on secured and unsecured debt transactions including private placements, syndicated debt financings, "one-stop shop" financings, mezzanine financings, and other strategic financings across a number of industries and business sectors.

  • Ferrari N.V. – Counseled on a $300 million private placement of senior notes issued by an Italian luxury sports car company based in the Netherlands
  • G4S PLC – Represented institutional investors in numerous private placement financings aggregating US$1.4 billion and GBP£69 million issued by G4S International Finance plc, a multinational security services company
  • Represented institutional investor groups in a series of transactions involving nearly $1 billion of secured financings in connection with a dormitory privatization initiative where the University System of Georgia, Howard University, and Wayne State University entered into a public private partnership arrangement with Corvias Campus Living
  • The Vanguard Group, Inc. – Represented institutional investors in the issuance of a $3 billion private placement (the largest private placement ever) for an investment advisor with more than $5.3 trillion in assets under management and the largest offering of mutual funds in the world; previously represented investors in the amendment of an additional $650 million private placement financing
  • Coke Mexico – Represented institutional investors in an $800 million private placement financing for AC Bebidas S. de R.L. de C.V., the second-largest Coca Cola bottler in Latin America
  • Hines Global Real Estate Holdings LP – Represented institutional investors in a $600 million private placement issued by a global real estate investment, development, and management firm
  • Counseled the syndicate agent in a $300 million loan refinancing to a liquor distributing company
  • Represented mezzanine lenders in connection with the purchase of senior subordinated notes and warrants to finance the issuer’s acquisition of a manufacturer of high-efficiency heat transfer, dehumidification, and restoration products
  • Sweetwater – Represented institutional investors in connection with the purchase of approximately $420 million in secured notes from Sweetwater Investors II, LLC; the notes will be repaid from the securitization of royalty payments due to two subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation from trona and coal mining leases that have leased mineral rights from Anadarko’s subsidiaries on their acreage in Sweetwater County, Wyoming
  • Counseled institutional investors in connection with a private placement financing to fund the construction of a gas-fired power plant in Texas
  • Counseled investors in connection with the acquisition of a majority interest in a web-based marketing company through a "one-stop shop" financing involving the investors’ purchase of preferred and common equity interests and senior secured and subordinated notes
  • Represented institutional investors in connection with a $325 million private placement of senior secured notes by a real estate investment trust
  • Mars – Counseled institutional investors in a $1.5 billion private placement of senior notes issued in connection with the acquisition of Wrigley by Mars
  • Represented private placement noteholders in the restructuring of a $200 million loan to a radio broadcasting company
  • Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation – Represented institutional investors in the restructuring of $1.6 billion of notes of an oil and gas company
  • Vopak – Counseled institutional investors in a $900 million private placement to a Dutch company that specializes in the storage and handling of oil and natural gas–related products
  • Counseled a syndicate agent in a $475 million loan refinancing to a national fruit and vegetable processing company
  • CHS, Inc. – Counseled institutional investors in a $680 million private placement of senior notes issued by a leading global agribusiness owned by farmers, ranchers, and cooperatives across the United States
  • University of Connecticut School of Law, 2005, J.D.
  • Fairfield University, 2001, B.A., Political Science, Cum Laude
  • Connecticut

Recommended, Finance: Commercial lending, The Legal 500 US (2025)

Recommended, Finance: Commercial lending: advice to bank lenders, The Legal 500 US (2025)

Member, Connecticut Editorial Advisory Board, Law360 (2024)

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Connecticut Bar Association

Member, American College of Investment Counsel

Former Senior Articles Editor, Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal