Arthur Lotz
Partner
Overview
Arthur Lotz is a finance attorney in Holland & Knight's Dallas and New York offices. Mr. Lotz's practice focuses on private capital, leveraged finance and acquisition finance.
Mr. Lotz represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, private credit funds and other alternative capital providers, and public and private companies in a variety of complex debt financing transactions. His experience spans a broad range of financing structures, including unitranche and other private credit facilities, syndicated and bilateral credit facilities, asset-based facilities, reserve-based loans, delayed-draw term loans, and senior and subordinated debt financings.
Working with clients on both the borrower and capital-provider sides of transactions, Mr. Lotz has significant experience across the private capital ecosystem and regularly collaborates with private equity and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) teams on acquisition financings. In addition, he advises private credit funds and other lenders in the deployment of capital in sponsor-backed and other leveraged transactions.
Representative Experience
- Represented Madison River Capital, a New York-based private equity firm, in its strategic investment in Nexus Power, a manufacturer representative and provider of design, engineering, procurement and project management solutions for integrated high-specification power systems
- Represented multiple private equity sponsor-backed upstream and midstream energy portfolio companies in connection with term loan and revolving credit facilities
- Represented Everlane Equity Partners, a Boston-based private capital provider, on multiple structured equity and debt investments in small-cap and middle-market companies
- Represented Broadtree Partners, a Charlotte-based private equity firm specializing in lower middle-market investments, in multiple platform acquisitions and related financings
- Represented Riley Exploration Permian Inc., an independent exploration and production company, in securing acquisition financing for its $330 million acquisition of oil and gas assets
- Represented USA DeBusk LLC in connection with financing for its acquisition of Nitro Lift Technologies LLC, an industrial services and fabrication provider serving the upstream, midstream and downstream energy markets
- Represented DFW Capital-backed North American Rail Solutions (NARS) on a $770 million multicurrency cross-border private credit financing in connection with its acquisition of ZA Construction and refinancing of certain existing indebtedness
- Represented SkyKnight Capital-backed FirstCall Mechanical Group, an Austin-based commercial services company that provides HVAC, building controls, electrical and plumbing services to commercial and industrial facilities nationwide, in a $565 million private credit financing
- Represented Worldwide Insurance Network Inc., one of the largest full-service national insurance agency networks, in connection with a $142 million financing
- Represented Saol Therapeutics, a private clinical-stage pharmaceutical company, in a $115 million private credit multi-tranche financing to provide near-term launch readiness for one of Saol's developmental candidates
- Represented a leading global investment firm in a CA$120 million term loan financing provided to a Canadian financial services company
- Represented MedShift LLC, a leading medical device and software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider to the healthcare aesthetics industry, in connection with approximately $490 million of corporate debt facilities and special purpose financings
- Represented Thryv Inc., a multinational SaaS company, in connection with $435 million of credit facilities
- Represented a global tax services, software and technology company in connection with $975 million of cross-border, multicurrency credit facilities
- Represented a private nationwide hospital operator in connection with its $710 million asset-based revolving credit facility
- Represented a provider of coworking spaces in connection with its $1.75 billion letter of credit facility
- Represented a British multinational company in connection with a $200 million secured letter of credit facility supporting plugging and abandonment obligations of a U.S. oil and gas company
- Represented a global impact investment platform and a leading renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company in their acquisition of one of the largest carbon credit developers in North America
Credentials
- Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
- Baruch College of the City University of New York, B.B.A., Finance
- New York
- Texas