Shawn Dogra

Shawn Dogra is Counsel in the Firm’s Banking and Credit Practice. Based in Simpson Thacher’s New York office, he represents private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers, as well as investment banks and private capital lenders, in a wide variety of financing transactions across multiple industries. Often cross-border in nature, Shawn’s practice includes syndicated and direct lending, leveraged and investment grade facilities, acquisition and leveraged finance, restructuring transactions and other investment transactions.

Notable experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes advising:

• Morgan Stanley, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $2.475 billion first lien secured financing, consisting of a $2 billion first lien secured incremental term loan B facility, a $250 million delayed draw term loan B facility and $225 million revolving credit facility, for the acquisition of Culligan, a leading global provider of water filtration services and a portfolio company of Advent International, by BDT Capital Partners.
• A global sports investment group in various senior secured credit facilities provided by leading investment banks and private capital providers for its holding company and for its portfolio companies in the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, the PGA Tour and the Premier League.
• HSBC Bank and JPMorgan, as administrative agents and lead arrangers, in connection with a $2.25 billion senior secured refinancing for Samsonite, a publicly-listed global premium luggage manufacturer and retailer, consisting of a $850 million revolving credit facility and a $800 million term loan A facility agented by HSBC and a $600 million term loan B facility agented by JPMorgan.
• JPMorgan, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $645 million financing for a sponsor-backed acquisition of an industrial services company, consisting of a $420 million secured term loan B facility, a $125 million delayed draw term loan facility and a $100 million asset-based revolving credit facility.
• Paramount Global on finance matters related to the $1.62 billion sale of Simon & Schuster, a leading global publishing business, to a private equity sponsor.
• Citibank, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $3 billion investment grade revolving credit facility for DXC Technology, a publicly-listed multinational information technology services and consulting company.
• A leading global investment bank's credit trading division, as borrower, in a $160 million asset-backed senior secured revolving credit facility arranged by a syndicate of global banks.
• Bank of America as administrative agent in a $1.1 billion investment grade revolving credit facility for Hasbro, the publicly-listed toy and game company.
• A sponsor-backed fundraising consulting company, in a secured term loan and revolving credit facility arranged by a multinational bank and a concurrent strategic investment by another private equity sponsor.
• A leading global investment bank as administrative agent and lead arranger on a $1.3 billion financing, consisting of a $550 million first lien secured incremental term loan facility, a new $210 million second lien secured term loan facility, and an additional side-by-side $540 million first lien secured revolving credit and term loan facility, for the acquisition of a software company by a sponsor's existing portfolio company and the carveout of certain acquired businesses to a newly-formed sponsor entity.
• A telecommunications company in a secured unitranche financing provided by a group of infrastructure-focused private capital funds.
• A leading private credit provider as lender in a $280 million secured unitranche financing for the sponsor-backed acquisition of a residential services company.
• A leading global investment bank, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $1.25 billion first lien secured incremental term loan facility and a $100 million first lien secured incremental revolving facility to finance a sponsor-backed software company's dividend recapitalization.
• A leading global investment bank, as administrative agent and arranger, in a €190 million PIK facility for a sponsor-backed airline services company.
• A leading global investment bank, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $200 million first lien secured incremental closing and delayed draw term loan B facility and the concurrent repricing of an existing $400 million term loan B facility for a sponsor-backed multinational industrial company.
• Citibank, as administrative agent and lead arranger, in a $350 million secured revolving credit facility for Nabors, the publicly-listed owner-operator of the world's largest land drilling rig fleet.
• Société Générale in the provision of transitional funding arrangements in connection with its transformational joint venture with AllianceBernstein to combine their global equity-linked business units.
• General Electric in the provision of transitional funding arrangements with various strategic buyers in connection with the dispositions of its hotel financing, equipment financing and transportation financing businesses.

Shawn received his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Toronto in 2015, where he was awarded the Gerald W. Schwartz Gold Medal and was a Bregman Scholar. He received his B.Com. in Finance from the University of Ottawa in 2011, summa cum laude.