Christopher Brown

Chris Brown concentrates his practice on banking and finance. He has represented private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as public and private companies, in a wide variety of secured lending and other financing transactions. In addition, Chris has worked for many clients on matters involving general secured finance issues, liability management transactions, debt restructurings and related corporate issues. His clients have included AEA Investors, Alterra Mountain Company, Angeles Equity Partners, Ashton Woods, Axon, Best Buy, BlackRock, Blackstone, Butterfly Equity, Cimpress, Cloud Software Group, Cohen & Steers, Evercore Partners, Frontdoor, Hershey, JLL Partners, KKR, KSL Capital Partners, Microsoft, The Mosaic Company, New Mountain Capital, Pacific Dental Services, Peloton, Primavera Capital Partners, Progress Software, PTC, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners, Tailored Brands, Teladoc Health, Twitter, Wealth Partners Capital Group and ZoomInfo.

Notable representations include:

• KKR in connection with the financing in support of its $4.8 billion acquisition of Instructure Holdings, Inc. and $4 billion acquisition of Broadcom Inc.’s End-User Computing Division
• BMC Software, Inc., a KKR portfolio company, in connection with a $6.6 billion debt refinancing and subsequent $5.9 billion first lien and $750 million second lien refinancings
• Blackstone Infrastructure in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Safe Harbor Marinas, the largest marina and superyacht servicing business in the United States, from Sun Communities, Inc for $5.65 billion
• Tortuga Resorts, a joint venture between an affiliate of KSL Capital Partners and Rodina, in the financing supporting its $2 billion acquisition of 14 all-inclusive resort assets from Hyatt Hotels Corporation
• Cloud Software Group in the financing supporting its acquisition of Arctera
• Peloton Interactive, Inc. in connection with a $1.35 billion debt refinancing
• KSL Capital Partners in connection with the financing related to its acquisition of Hersha Hospitality Trust in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.4 billion
• Frontdoor, Inc. in connection with the financing in support of its acquisition of 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty in an all-cash transaction valued at $585 million
• BlackRock Long Term Private Capital in the financing supporting its acquisition of GridTek Utility Services, a portfolio company of First Reserve Corporation
• New Mountain Capital in the financings supporting several recent acquisitions, including Grant Thornton and Broadcast Music Inc.; and a growth investment in Datassential
• Apollo Global Management in connection with financing matters related to its strategic minority investment in PetSmart, forming a partnership with PetSmart's existing majority owner, BC Partners
• The Board of Directors of Twitter, Inc. in financing related matters relating to Twitter’s acquisition by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk
• Microsoft Corporation in certain financing matters relating to its $75 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard
• The Hershey Company in connection with its unsecured revolving credit facilities totaling $1.875 billion

Chris received his J.D. in 2001 from University of Virginia School of Law. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1998. Chris is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.