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    John J. Anselmi

    Special Counsel

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    New York

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    anselmij@sullcrom.com

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    John Anselmi is Special Counsel in Sullivan & Cromwell’s General Practice Group. He has extensive experience in a wide range of financing matters, including capital markets offerings, lending transactions, liability management transactions and project and infrastructure development and finance. Mr. Anselmi also advises clients on corporate transactions, including joint venture arrangements and venture capital and private equity investments.

    Mr. Anselmi’s financing expertise includes public and private capital markets offerings, secured and unsecured bank financings, private credit transactions and acquisition financings. He has advised both U.S. and non-U.S. issuers on a variety of capital markets transactions. He regularly advises clients on credit facilities, including revolvers, asset-based loans, reserves-based loans and term loans, letter of credit facilities and receivables facilities. Mr. Anselmi has represented issuer and borrower clients in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, mining, renewables, information technology and research, real estate, manufacturing, logistics and financial institutions.

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    S&C Advises Initial Purchasers of Karoon’s $350 Million Debut Notes Offering

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    Experience

    Experience

    Debt Offerings and Other Financing Matters

    • Lending Transactions
      • SoftBank Group Corp. and its subsidiaries in multiple commercial bank margin loans
      • Goodman North American Partnership in connection with its senior unsecured credit facilities
      • Mineral Resources Limited in connection with a $750 million unsecured credit facility with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
      • Leonardo DRS on its $500 million credit facility, including a term loan A facility and revolving credit facility
      • A private family office in connection with its private margin loan and other secured financings
      • Acted for private credit lenders on a range of lending transactions, including Delaware Life and Owl Rock Capital

    • Capital Markets Offerings
      • The initial purchasers in connection with the issuance by a subsidiary of Karoon Energy Limited of $350 million of senior secured high yield notes purusant to Rule 144A/Regulation S
      • South32 Limited on its debut offering of $700 million senior unsecured notes issued pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S
      • Mineral Resources Limited in its offerings of several series of senior unsecured high yield notes pursuant to Rule 144A/Regulation S
      • Perth Airport Pty Ltd in its U.S. private placements pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) in 2019 ($225 million aggregate amount of notes) and 2020 ($150 million aggregate amount of notes)
      • Goodman North American Partnership in connection with its $400 million (2021) and $200 million (2020) U.S. private placements pursuant to Section 4(a)(2)
      • National Australia Bank and Bank of New Zealand in various notes offerings, including pursuant to Section 3(a)(2) and Rule 144A/Regulation S under their respective medium term notes programs
      • Australia and New Zealand Banking Group and ANZ Bank New Zealand in connection with Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings pursuant to their respective medium term notes programs
    • Acquisition Financings
      • Standard Industries Holdings in connection with the financing for its acquisition of W. R. Grace & Co, including unsecured notes, secured revolving credit facility and secured term loan
      • Upbound Group, Inc. in connection with the financing for its acquisition of Acima Holdings, LLC, including a $450 million issuance of Rule 144A/Regulation S notes, $550 million asset-based revolving credit facility and $875 million senior secured term loan facility
      • Gartner, Inc. $4 billion of financing in connection with the acquisition of CEB Inc., including revolving, term and bridge credit facilities and senior unsecured notes
      • United Rentals, Inc., including the acquisitions of RSC Equipment Rental, Inc., National Pump & Compressor Ltd. and NES Rentals Holdings II, Inc., BlueLine Rental, BakerCorp, Neff Corporation, Vander Holding Corporation and General Finance Corporation
    • Other Financing and Restructuring Matters
      • Canyon Capital Advisors LLC in connection with its $600 million “PIPE” transaction with New Residential Investment Corp
      • United Rentals in connection with several financing transactions, including its $3.0 billion asset-based loan facilities, $900 million receivables facility and several secured and unsecured notes issuances (registered and unregistered)
      • Gartner, Inc. in connection with unsecured and secured credit facilities (including revolving and term loan facilities), Rule 144A/Regulation S notes offerings and related ISDA transactions
      • CIT Group Inc. in connection with revolving credit facilities, registered and unregistered notes offerings (most recently including the issuance of $500 million senior unsecured fixed-to-floating rate notes, $100 million of subordinated notes and 8,000,000 shares of preferred stock, as well as several senior unsecured notes offerings), bank notes offerings, and various liability management transactions
      • Ascent Resources in connection with various financing and corporate matters, including entry into and refinancing of reserves-based credit facilities, term loans and issuance of senior unsecured notes, negotiation of ISDA agreements and various recapitalization transactions

    Project Development and Finance

    • The borrower and a consortium of sponsors, including Exxon Mobil Corporation, the Independent Public Business Corporation of Papua New Guinea, Mineral Resources Development Company, Nippon Oil Corporation, Oil Search Limited, Petromin PNG Holdings Limited and Santos Limited in connection with the $18 billion project financing of PNG LNG in Papua New Guinea by export credit agencies, commercial banks and an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation
    • Yemen LNG in negotiating the environmental and social representations, warranties, covenants and other documentation required to reflect the policies and guidelines of the export credit agencies, political risk insurers and commercial banks providing financing to the project and advice on commercial agreements, including long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements
    • Moma Titanium Mineral Sands Project (Mozambique) involving debt from regional development banks, export credit agencies and commercial banks
    • Ambatovy Nickel Project (Madagascar) $2.1 billion financing by multilateral lending agencies, export credit agencies and commercial banks for the first ever project financing in Madagascar
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    Rankings and Recognitions

    Rankings and Recognitions

    Mr. Anselmi is recognized as a “Notable Practitioner” by IFLR1000 in banking and finance, capital markets: debt, capital markets: equity, and IPOs and as one of the “Best Lawyers in Australia” for Banking and Finance law. He has been resident in the Firm’s London, Melbourne and Sydney offices.

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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Initial Purchasers of Karoon’s $350 Million Debut Notes Offering

      July 23, 2024
    • S&C Represents Secured Lenders in Successful Confirmations of Sientra and Nanostring Chapter 11 Plans

      June 18, 2024
    • S&C Advises AcBel Polytech in Deal to Acquire Power Conversion Division of ABB

      February 1, 2023
    • S&C Advises United Rentals in $2 Billion Acquisition of Ahern Rentals

      November 14, 2022
    • S&C Advises Leonardo DRS in Merger with RADA Electronic Industries

      June 28, 2022
    • S&C Advises DigitalBridge in $3.2 Billion Sale of Wellness Infrastructure Business

      March 18, 2022
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • Energy Transition Insights: Energy Transition Year in Review and Look Ahead

      S&C Memos January 8, 2024
    • The Australian-American Partnership to Address Climate Change

      Podcasts August 30, 2023
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Columbia Law School, J.D., 2002
    • Yale University, B.A., 1999

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • General Practice
    • Africa
    • Australia/New Zealand
    • Credit & Leveraged Finance
    • Energy Transition
    • Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
    • Middle East
    • Project Development & Finance
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