Todd Matras
Counsel Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As a seasoned lawyer with 21 years of experience in middle market leveraged finance matters, Todd Matras has significant experience with acquisition financings, all types of senior secured debt, mezzanine debt, cross-border financings, and the restructuring and workout of distressed credit facilities and notes.
He provides commercially practical legal advice to his clients, while being extremely attuned to clients' needs and possessing an understanding of the marketplace. Todd also holds extensive knowledge of secured transactions and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Article 9.
Todd graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as Research Editor of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review.
Representative experience
Representation of the first-out lender and agent in connection with a US$133m credit facility to one of the largest centrally managed roofing companies in the country.*
Representation of the mezzanine lenders and agent in connection with a US$30m mezzanine facility to a leading distributor of cutting tools, abrasives, and industrial MRO products.*
Representation of a staffing company and its private equity sponsor on multiple credit facilities including a US$20m first lien credit facility and US$20.5m second lien credit facility.*
Representation of Inter-American Investment Corporation, a multilateral development bank in connection with a $300 million financing of Engie Energia Peru, a Peruvian electricity generator.
Representation of the first-out lender and agent in connection with a US$72.5m credit facility to one of the largest centrally managed roofing companies in the country.*
Representation of an industrial staffing company and its private equity sponsor on multiple credit facilities including a US$19m first lien credit facility and US$22m second lien credit facility.*
Representation of Norfund, Oikocredit, responsAbility Investments AG, and US Development Finance Corporation in connection with a US$62 million renewable lighting loan to Brighter Life Kenya 2 Ltd.
Representation of Inter-American Investment Corporation in connection with a US$40 million loan to Elcatex and San Juan Textiles, a main textile group in Honduras with more than 15,000 employees.
Representation of administrative agent in connection with a US$41.175m loan to a digital software company.*
Representation of noteholders in connection with the restructuring of US$700m of senior notes issued by a Peruvian automotive dealership.*
Representation of first-out lenders in connection with the potential work-out of a film and television studio with over US$1.2bn of liabilities.*
Representation of noteholders in connection with the restructuring of US$175m of senior notes issued by a Brazilian construction company.*
Represented DFC in a US$100 million loan to Turkey’s Sekerbank, to develop regions most affected by the February 2023 earthquake and finance women led SMEs.
Representation of borrower and its private equity sponsor in connection with US$90m of holdco notes issued by an automotive financing company.*
Provide advice to a lender in connection with its ownership of debt, including a potential restructuring, issued by a global media company having over US$10bn of debt outstanding.*
Representation of agent and lender in connection with a US$20m term loan to a media company.*
Representation of a manufacturing company and its private equity sponsor in connection with a US$15m first lien revolving credit facility and term loan and US$10m second lien term loan.*
Representation of label printing company and its private equity sponsor in connection with US$60m credit facility.*
Representation of a publicly traded manufacturing company in connection with its US$275m senior secured credit facility and its US$60m employee stock ownership plan credit facility.*
Representation of a borrower engaged in supply chain financing in connection with a $1.8 billion first lien credit facility and $900 million second lien credit facility.
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
- J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2000
- M.B.A., Regis University, 1997
- B.S., Purdue University, 1993
- New York