Welton E. Blount
Lawyers
Advises private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide range of financing transactions.
Welton advises private equity sponsors, their portfolio companies and other borrowers in connection with a wide range of financing transactions, including investment-grade and leveraged acquisition financings, cross-border financings, debt restructurings, and other secured and unsecured financings. His sponsor clients include Bansk Group, BDT & MSD Capital, GHK Capital Partners, GrowthCurve Capital, Metalmark Capital and Tailwind Capital Partners.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- Nuvei $6.3 billion going-private acquisition
- Doma take-private acquisition by Title Resources Group
- GHK sale of Hasa to Wind Point
- Nuvei $1.3 billion acquisition of Paya Holdings and related financing transactions
- Weber take-private acquisition by BDT Capital Partners and related financings
- Metalmark Capital up to $50 million investment in Morgenesis
- Pon sale of interest in Hiller to Littlejohn & Co.
- Tailwind Capital sale of Stratix
- Tailwind Capital sale of ArrowStream
- Bansk Group majority investment in amika and Eva NYC
- GrowthCurve Capital acquisition of Brightway Insurance
- Chosen Foods investment by Butterfly Equity
- Lydall $1.3 billion acquisition by Unifrax
- Olam Food Ingredients $950 million acquisition of Olde Thompson
- GHK Capital Partners acquisition of Hasa and related financing
- ADC Therapeutics $115 million convertible senior notes facility agreement
Education
J.D., Harvard Law School
- Supervising Editor, Harvard Law Review
B.A., Linguistics, Harvard University
- cum laude
Professional history
- Counsel, 2020-present
- Davis Polk since 2017
- Cravath Swaine & Moore, 2012-2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York