Alexandra Leavy

Alex advises clients on complex financing transactions, including acquisition financings, secured and unsecured credit facilities, growth capital financings, venture debt facilities, debt restructurings and bespoke private-client lending arrangements. She regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in structuring and negotiating acquisition and leveraged finance transactions, primarily within the technology and software industry.

In addition to sponsor-backed and corporate financings, Alex has experience advising high net worth individuals and family offices on liquidity facilities and other customized credit arrangements.

She also maintains an active pro bono practice.

Alex’s representative transactions include advising:

• A pre-initial public offering (IPO) unicorn in its $750 million pre-IPO revolving credit facility 
• Battery Ventures and its portfolio companies in numerous acquisitions and dispositions, including:
  • Acquisition of MadCap Software
  • Learnosity’s (a Battery Ventures portfolio company) acquisition of Questionmark
  • Crunchtime! Information Systems’ (a Battery Ventures portfolio company) acquisitions of Zenput and Squadle
  • Acquisition of AdaCore
  • Acquisition of Ascendant Capital
  • Acquisition of B&L Information Systems
  • Acquisition of Mobius Institute
  • Acquisition of TrueContext
  • Titian’s (a Battery Ventures portfolio company) acquisition of LabGuru
  • Acquisition of QSR Automations
  • Acquisition of Signiant
  • Acquisition of Signal AI
  • Acquisition of RetaiNext
• Represented Rubicon Technology Partners and several of its portfolio companies in:
  • Financings for various portfolio companies, including Bamboo Rose, Vision Government Solutions and Uptempo
  • Uptempo’s (a Rubicon portfolio company) acquisition of OptiMine Software
  • Bamboo Rose’s (a Rubicon portfolio company) acquisition of Supply Pilot

• Represented a high net worth individual in connection with their investment in a Major League Baseball team
• Represented Tiger Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Minnesota Coaches
• Represented Diamond Offshore Drilling in its Chapter 11 case exit facilities, including a $400 million senior secured revolving credit facility, $100 million senior secured last-out first-lien term loan and additional last-out first-lien notes*
• Represented Madrigal Pharmaceuticals in a $250 million term loan credit facility
• Represented Quotient Technology in a asset-based revolving credit facility
• Represented Oak Hill Capital Partners* in:
  • Acquisition of VetCor
  • Acquisition of FirstLight Fiber
  • Sale of Wave Broadband
• Represented CI Capital Partners* in:
  • Galls’ (a CI portfolio company) several add-on acquisitions and subsequent sale to Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • SavATree’s (a CI portfolio company) acquisition of Arborwell
• Representation of venture-capital-backed private company borrowers in connection with term loan and/or revolving credit facilities provided by various lenders, including Hercules Capital, Silicon Valley Bank, Western Alliance Bank, J.P. Morgan, CIBC and TriplePoint Capital

*Representation handled before joining Cooley