Paul Hastings Co-Chair of Global Finance Jennifer St. John Yount has been named “Dealmaker of the Year” at New York Law Journal’s (NYLJ) 2024 New York Legal Awards and Co-Chair of Financial Restructuring Jayme Goldstein was named among the finalists. Paul Hastings was the only law firm to have two lawyers nominated for this achievement.  

Jennifer has worked on several billion dollar deals and advised some of the world’s largest and most sophisticated banks and private credit lenders, including advising a syndicate of 19 private credit lenders, led by Sixth Street – the largest in the private debt market – on Thoma Bravo’s $8 billion all-cash take-private acquisition of Coupa Software; Blue Owl, Blackstone, and Ares in Permira’s $6.9 billion take-private acquisition of Squarespace; and Goldman Sachs in Thoma Bravo’s $5.3 billion take-private acquisition Darktrace.

Jayme was highlighted for having worked on some of the most significant in-court and out-of-court restructurings of the past year, including an ad hoc group of lenders for the company’s $2.3 billion super senior priming term loan. Jayme helped design and consummate a landmark cooperation agreement among his clients for the full four-year maturity of their term loan to eliminate the possibility of “lender–on-lender violence.” This was the first “full life of loan” cooperation agreement of its kind and has been used as a template for many restructurings since by various other practitioners.

The annual NYLJ Legal Awards recognize attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession in New York.

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