Hilary Dengel
Represents corporate borrowers, financial sponsors and various lenders on transactions including acquisition financings, DIP and exit financings, and restructurings.
Corporate borrowers, financial sponsors and various lenders seek Hilary’s counsel on a wide range of transaction types, including leveraged and investment-grade acquisition financings, high-yield bond issuances, asset-based financings, complex restructurings, and debtor-in-possession and exit financings.
Her corporate clients include Allegro Microsystems, Bowlero, Bausch Health, Bausch + Lomb, CDK Global, Clarios, Comcast, DexKo Global, Digicel, GoDaddy, Knowlton Development, Lucid Motors, Mirion Technologies and Pattern Energy Group. Her sponsor clients include Atairos, Bansk, Bridgepoint, Brookfield, Cornell Capital, GrowthCurve and Metalmark.
Hilary is recognized by Legal 500 U.S. and IFLR1000 for her finance work and was named to Kayo Conference Series’s list of “Top 25 in ’25: Trailblazing Women in Credit.” She was honored as “Finance Rising Star Attorney of the Year” at the 2020 Euromoney LMG Americas Women in Business Law Awards.
Experience
Recent Sponsor Representations
- Atairos on over $4.5 billion of financing transactions for its portfolio companies and investments, including Arcis Golf, Bowlero Corp., Learfield, Opry Entertainment Group and Spectra, as well as its pending investment in V Sports
- Bansk on over $900 million of financing transactions for its portfolio companies and investments, including Woodstream Corporation and Heat Makes Sense
- Bridgepoint on financing transactions for the acquisition of Sun World International
- Brookfield on over $42 billion of financing transactions for its portfolio companies and investments, including CDK Global, Clarios, DexKo and Nielsen
- Cornell Capital on a $1.8 billion comprehensive refinancing for Knowlton Development Corporation
- GrowthCurve on financing transactions for its portfolio companies and investments, including Brightway Insurance, NetChex and Revecore
- Metalmark on over $1 billion of financing transactions for its portfolio companies and investments, including Innovetive Petcare, Morgenesis and WorldStrides
Recent Corporate Representations
- Allegro MicroSystem on its acquisition of Crocus and concurrent refinancing of Allegro’s term loan facility
- Bausch Health and Bausch + Lomb including for Bausch + Lomb’s acquisition of Xiidra
- Comcast on over $69 billion of financing transactions, including in connection with its acquisition of Sky and the securitization of its Hulu “put” rights
- Digicel on the $1.85 billion sale of its Pacific operations to Telstra, as well as its comprehensive cross-border financial restructuring
- GoDaddy on over $4.5 billion of financing transactions
- Mirion Technologies on over $1.8 billion of financings, including the acquisition financing for its 2021 de-SPAC transaction
- Pattern Energy on over $2.4 billion of financing transactions
- PwC’s on the sale of its Global Mobility Tax and Immigration Services practice to CD&R
News
Recognition
Legal 500 U.S. – Commercial Lending
IFLR1000 – Banking, Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation, United States
Kayo Conference Series – “Top 25 in ’25: Trailblazing Women in Credit”
Euromoney Americas Women in Business Law Awards – “Finance Rising Star Attorney of the Year,” 2020
Education
- summa cum laude
- Order of the Coif
- Senior Symposium Editor, American University Law Review
- magna cum laude
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York