Darrin R. Halcomb

Such transactions include acquisition financings, asset-based loans, leveraged loans, dividend recaps, secured note offerings, project financings, restructurings and workouts, debtor-in-possession financings and exit financings.

Significant recent transactions include the representation of:

• Ashtead Group (and its U.S. subsidiary Sunbelt Rentals) in connection with a $4.5 billion cross-border asset-based loan facility and the issuance of multiple series of senior secured notes;
• Bank of America in connection with various asset-based and debtor-in-possession loan facilities, including a $700 million ABL facility for Follett Corporation and a $1.26 billion debtor-in-possession financing for Sears Holdings;
• Black Diamond Capital Management and Veritas Capital in connection with various acquisition, financing and restructuring transactions relating to portfolio companies;
• Brightline Holdings (a portfolio company of Fortress Investment Group) in connection with over $3.8 billion in aggregate principal amount of private activity bond offerings and other senior secured note offerings and credit facilities to finance the construction and operation of the Brightline high-speed intercity passenger rail service in South Florida and the planned construction of high-speed passenger rail service between the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas;
• Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure Investors in connection with private activity bond offerings and other senior secured credit facilities to finance the development, construction and acquisition of transport, loading, unloading and storage facilities at the Port of Beaumont, Texas, and the Repauno Port and Terminal in New Jersey;
• Hill-Rom Holdings in connection with a $1 billion senior secured term loan facility and $1.2 billion senior secured multicurrency revolving loan facility;
• ION Media Networks in connection with a $1.36 billion senior secured term loan facility and $75 million senior secured revolving loan facility;
• J. C. Penney in connection with a $1.688 billion senior secured term loan facility and the issuance of multiple series of senior secured notes;
• Morgan Stanley Senior Funding in connection with a $500 million senior secured term loan facility for New Fortress Energy Holdings;
• R.R. Donnelley in connection with a $550 million senior secured term loan facility; - Wells Fargo Bank in connection with a $350 million senior secured asset-based loan facility for Verso Paper Holding LLC;
• Highline Management in connection with the $880 million cash sale of GPB Capital’s automotive portfolio to Group 1 Automotive, Inc.;
• Apartment Investment and Management Company in its $10.4 billion reverse spin-off of Apartment Income REIT Corp. and various subsequent credit facilities for AIMCO and AIR Communities; and
• TAMKO Building Products in connection with a new term loan credit facility and a refinancing of its asset-based loan facility entered into concurrently with the acquisition by Carlyle Global Partners of a 25% interest in the company.

Mr. Halcomb also represents pro bono clients in connection with due process hearings and other matters relating to special education services for children with disabilities.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Halcomb worked in the economic research and public affairs departments at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.