Joshua P. Deason

Joshua is a member of the American College of Investment Counsel. Joshua is also a member of the Banking Law Committee of the New York State Bar Association.

• “In re Miller: Recent Case Highlights the Difficulty of Perfecting Security Interests Against Individuals under Article 9 of the UCC”, The Practical Lawyer Magazine (February 2013)

Joshua has acted as counsel to:

• Platinum Equity and Butterfly on the financing of their acquisition of Rise Baking Company
• Platinum Equity on an $800 million refinancing by portfolio company Solenis
• Platinum Equity in connection with a comprehensive financing agreement with portfolio company Aventiv Technologies 
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its acquisition of Kohler Energy
• Platinum Equity as debt structuring counsel in its acquisition of a co-controlling stake in US LBM
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its acquisition of a majority interest in The Cook & Boardman Group
• Platinum Equity and its portfolio company Solenis in the financing of Solenis’ $4.6 billion acquisition of Diversey Holdings, Ltd.
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its acquisition of Imerys’ High Temperature Solutions business 
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its acquisition of Pelican Products
• Platinum Equity and its portfolio company McGraw Hill in the financing of McGraw Hill’s acquisition of Achieve3000
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its $5.25 billion acquisition of Solenis
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its $4.5 billion acquisition of McGraw Hill
  
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its $1.7 billion acquisition of Club Car
• Platinum Equity and its portfolio company Club Car in the financing of Club Car’s acquisition of Garia A/S
• Platinum Equity in the financing of its $7.2 billion acquisition of Ingram Micro
• Pattonair, a Platinum Equity portfolio company, in the financing associated with its agreement to be combined with Wesco Aircraft
  
• Platinum Equity in high yield and bank financings in connection with Platinum’s acquisition of Vertiv Corporation
• Institutional investors in connection with senior secured notes issued by an affiliate of Rolls-Royce plc
• SourceHOV with debt financing-related matters in connection with its $2.8 billion merger with Novitex and Quinparo to form Exela Technologies
• The administrative agent and lead arranger in connection with the $2 billion revolving and term loan credit facilities provided to Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P.
• Bank of Nova Scotia, as administrative agent and a lender, in connection with various acquisition financing and related transactions
• Institutional investors in connection with various issuances of senior notes guaranteed by Costco Wholesale Corporation and issued by an affiliate thereof
• Institutional investors in connection with senior notes issued by Meggitt plc
• Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund in connection with various issuances of senior secured notes pursuant to institutional private placement transactions
• Platinum Equity in high yield and bank financings in connection with Platinum’s acquisition of WFS Global Holding SAS
• Various mutual funds in connection with their secured and unsecured financings, from various lenders, including JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
• Tronox in securing committed financing with respect to its all-cash, $1.64 billion acquisition of Alkali Chemicals from FMC Corporation, as well as in the financing of its acquisition of Cristal’s titanium dioxide business for $1.673 billion in cash and stock
• GSO Capital in its $550 million facility to finance the approximately $2.7 billion acquisition of Belk by Sycamore Partners
• Friedman Fleischer & Lowe in the financing aspects of its sale of C.H.I. Overhead Doors to KKR
• Morgan Stanley in its $85 million first lien exit facility to Global Geophysical Services, Inc.
• A lead arranger in $117.5 million in first lien secured unitranche term facilities to finance the acquisition by a private equity sponsor of a “carve out” chemicals company
• A sponsor in $1.1 billion in first lien and second lien facilities to finance the recapitalization and portfolio consolidation of several software processing companies
• Friedman Fleischer & Lowe in $268 million in secured first lien/second lien and revolving credit facilities in a dividend recapitalization transaction involving C.H.I. Overhead Doors
• Goldman Sachs Mortgage Company in $1.85 billion in secured refinancing cross-border mortgage and mezzanine loans to Kyo-ya Hotels
• The majority lenders in connection with the restructuring of the credit facility of Kerzner International Limited