Jack Orford
Lawyers
Advises financial sponsors, corporate borrowers and lenders on a wide variety of financing transactions, with a focus on leveraged loans and high-yield debt.
Jack has extensive experience advising borrowers and lenders on a wide range of finance and capital markets transactions, including complex cross-border leveraged buyouts, high-yield debt securities, bridge financings, investment-grade debt, private debt, asset-based lending and securitization, and restructuring transactions.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Chase Corporation $1.3 billion acquisition by KKR
- TPG acquisition of Forcepoint G2CI from Francisco Partners
- TPG acquisition of Angelo Gordon
- Josh Harris acquisition of Washington Commanders
- Clarios $750 million notes offering and $2.75 billion term loan
- K&N Engineering recapitalization
- Semtech $1.815 billion Sierra Wireless acquisition financing
- Pon sale of its flow control businesses to MiddleGround Capital
- RedBird Capital Partners acquisition of AC Milan from Elliott Advisors
- Culligan International combination with Waterlogic Group Holdings
- Rentokil Initial $6.7 billion acquisition of Terminix Global Holdings
- BDT Capital Partners acquires a majority interest in MJH Life Sciences
- Genesis Capital sale to New Residential Investment
- Clarivate $1.8 billion exchange offers
- Clarivate $2 billion senior secured notes and senior notes offering
- BDT Capital $6 billion acquisition of Culligan International
Education
LL.B., University of Sydney
B.Sc., Organic Chemistry, University of Sydney
Clerkships
Law Clerk, Hon. Patricia Bergin, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 2014
Professional history
- Partner, 2023-present
- Counsel, 2022-2023
- Davis Polk since 2017
- Lawyer, Ashurst (Australia), 2015-2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York