Richard W. Grice

Partner

Richard Grice is a partner in the Global Finance & Debt Products Group and serves on the firm’s Financial Advisory Committee. Mr. Grice’s practice focuses on the representation of domestic and foreign commercial banks, underwriters and debt issuers in a variety of financings including leveraged buyouts and other acquisition financings, public debt issues, private placements, cross-border financings, recapitalizations and various asset-based financings. He also represents creditors and debtors in pre-bankruptcy restructurings and Chapter 11 proceedings.

Mr. Grice has been recognized by his peers as one of the foremost lawyers in his area of expertise, including a #1 ranking in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and a listing in Super Lawyers magazine for over 10 years, and he has been voted one of The Best Lawyers in America for over a decade.

Represented Synovus Bank as the agent bank in the restructuring of approximately $500 million of debt of the Sea Island Company and in connection with the subsequent sale of the resort through a Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding.
Represented administrative agent and letter of credit bank in connection with $319 million refinancing and conversion of certain tax-exempt auction rate securities into tax-exempt variable rate demand securities issued by a municipal financing authority and supported by a receivables securitization program sponsored by an operator of 37 hospitals in ten states.
Represented Graphic Packaging Corporation, an Atlanta-based public company, in connection with its $1.3 billion of debt financing for the acquisition of Altivity, LLC, a portfolio company of Texas Pacific Group.
Represented the nation's third-largest video rental company in its $1.195 billion debt financing for its successful all-cash acquisition of the nation's second-largest rental company. In this much-publicized transaction, our client outdueled a rival competitor for the property and was able to finance the acquisition with an $870 million senior bank credit facility and a $325 million high-yield bond issue.
Represented a southeastern "bundled" telecommunications provider in its successful "prepackaged" bankruptcy proceeding relating to $444.1 million in high-yield bonds and approximately $55 million in senior secured bank debt; the “prepack” resulted in a debt reduction of approximately $250 million for approximately a 19.3 percent equity interest in the company.
Represented a project sponsor in connection with the $200 million project financing of certain mining operations in the Amazon Basin, Brazil; coordinated complex debt and equity participations from U.S., French, German, Japanese and Brazilian investors, including significant Brazilian pre-export secured financings from Credit Lyonnais (New York and Paris offices), Bayerische Hypo-und Vereinsbank AG (Munich office) and Sumitomo Corporation (New York and Tokyo offices).
Represented Credit Suisse First Boston as the lead underwriter in connection with a $314 million high-yield debt offering issued by Caraustar Industries, Inc.
Represented a major Atlanta-based telecommunications company in connection with over $2 billion of bank financing for certain of its Latin American properties.
Represented an equipment lessor/vendor in connection with a multitranche $150 million leasing facility of computer hardware to a technology concern.


September 12, 2011	121 Alston & Bird Attorneys Named 2012 Best Lawyers
July 5, 2011	Chambers USA 2011 Edition Lists 87 Alston & Bird Attorneys
August 30, 2010	130 Alston & Bird Attorneys Named 2011 Best Lawyers
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January 30, 2009	ABA Forum on White Collar Crime
September 20, 2000	Capital Structure Evolution and Financing and M&A Alternatives for Technology and Telecommunications Companies
October 1998	Rule 144A High Debt Covenant Packages


October 2007	"Influenza in the Debt Capital Markets," Atlanta Business Magazine, October 2007.
September 2007	"Green Currency: Financing and Perfection of Kyoto Emission Reductions," International Financial Law Review, September 2007.
April 2003	"CFO's: Beware the Dreaded Make-Whole,” Financial Executives International Magazine, 2003.
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Richard W. Grice

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