Christopher Dickson is Of Counsel in the New York and Frankfurt offices of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Business Restructuring and Reorganization Practice Group and the Liability Management and Special Situations Practice Group.
Chris’s practice focuses on representing creditors in liability management and distressed financing transactions, including out-of-court debt exchanges and other restructurings, DIP financings , and exit financings. He also has experience representing private equity-sponsored and public company borrowers in a wide range of leveraged finance, direct lending and investment grade financing transactions.
His representative experience includes:*
- Ad hoc group of 2020 EMEA term loan lenders to GTT Communications in negotiations for a prepackaged chapter 11 proceeding.
- Affiliates of Apollo Capital Management, L.P. in its $1 billion senior secured financings to an unrestricted subsidiary of Ardagh Group S.A.
- An affiliate of Brookfield Infrastructure Partners in the financing for the $775 million acquisition of Cyxtera Technologies’ data centers business in a §363 sale.
- Baker Hughes in $300 million of Norwegian JV debt financing for the merger of its subsea drilling systems business with MHWirth AS, a subsidiary of Akastor ASA.
- Carnival Corporation & plc in numerous secured and unsecured high-yield and term debt financing and repricing transactions of $20 billion in aggregate.
- Carrier Global Corporation in the financings for its €12 billion acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions.
- Citigroup as first-lien revolving lender and term lender to cosmetics company Rodan & Fields in its uptiering debt exchange transactions.
- Clearlake Capital Group in the $1.3 billion debt and equity restructuring of its subsidiaries Crash Champions and Service King.
- Diamond Offshore Drilling in its $500 million senior secured exit financings related to its emergence from bankruptcy.
- Funds managed by Kohlberg & Company LLC in the senior secured financings for the $2 billion acquisition of Worldwide Clinical Trials.
- Oaktree Capital Management in its $450 million senior secured term debt facility to Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc., and multiple amendments to same.
- Affiliates of Oaktree Capital Management and Centerbridge Partners in their $1.2 billion senior secured rescue financing to OTG Management.
- Party City, a global celebrations retailer, and certain domestic subsidiaries in its prearranged chapter 11 proceedings, $150 million DIP financing and exit financings.
- Qualcomm Incorporated in the $4.5 billion acquisition of Veoneer, Inc. and related spin-off and buyer financing transactions.
- Weatherford International in the upsize of its senior secured letter of credit agreement and issuances of $1.0 billion in secured and unsecured notes.
- Affiliates of Apollo Global Management in the financings for the acquisitions of LifePoint Health (and later partial spin-off into ScionHealth), Tenneco, Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, Maxim Crane Works, Phoenix Services, Diamond Resorts, and others.
Before joining Gibson Dunn, Chris was a Counsel at another international law firm. Chris received his J.D. magna cum laude from Cornell Law School, where he was Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review. He is admitted to practice in the state of New York.
*Includes representations prior to Chris’s association with Gibson Dunn .
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- Cornell University - 2013 J.D., magna cum laude
- Cornell University - 2008 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar