Richard Ragusa

Richie Ragusa is a Partner in the Firm’s Houston office, where he regularly advises in capital markets and complex financing transactions. Throughout his career, Richie has represented corporate, private equity sponsor and investment banking clients on a wide range of transactions, including secured and unsecured high yield debt offerings, acquisition financings, IPOs, follow-on and secondary equity offerings, liability management transactions and hybrid capital products. He has counseled clients in an array of industries, including energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, industrials, telecommunications and entertainment.

Richie’s experience includes the representation of:

Issuer and Sponsor Representations

• Stonepeak in the financing for its $2.7 billion acquisition of the Latin American business of Lumen Technologies, which included $500 million of senior secured notes
• Consortium led by Digital Colony Partners and EQT Infrastructure in the financing for its $14.3 billion acquisition of Zayo Group, which included $2.6 billion of secured and unsecured notes
• Aethon United BR LP in connection with an offering of $1.0 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes
• Coatue as the lead investor in a $1.1 billion Series C funding round in CoreWeave, Inc., a specialized GPU cloud provider
• CIM Group in up to $200 million private capital financing for Applied Digital for development of data center campus
• Garda World Security Corporation in the C$5.2 billion recapitalization transaction with BC Partners, which included US$779 million of senior secured notes and liability management transactions in respect of Garda World Security Corporation’s existing senior notes
• TaskUs in its IPO and follow-on offerings by Blackstone
• Ingersoll Rand in debut SEC-registered investment grade debt offering and secondary common stock offering by KKR
• WASH Multifamily, an EQT Infrastructure portfolio company, in $850 million debut high yield senior secured notes offering
• Pyxus International in comprehensive multi-lien debt exchange transaction
• Avantor in €650 million senior secured notes offering and related refinancing transactions
• GFL Environmental in $500 million senior secured notes offering
• Teine Energy in $400 million senior notes offering and related refinancing transactions
• Heartland Dental, a KKR portfolio company, in add-on senior secured notes offering
• Carlyle in equity tender offer for shares of credit fund in connection with acquisition 
• Silver Lake in connection with investments in GlobalFoundries and Qualtrics

Initial Purchaser, Underwriter and Dealer Manager Representations

• Initial purchasers and underwriters in various high yield senior notes and equity offerings by Crescent Energy Company
• Initial purchasers in secured and unsecured notes offerings by Carnival totaling over $6 billion; initial purchasers and underwriters in convertible senior notes and common stock offerings by Carnival
• Initial purchasers in connection with an offering by WildFire Intermediate Holdings, LLC of $600 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes
• Initial purchasers in an offering by Alliance Resource Operating Partners, L.P. of $400 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes
• Underwriters in Nine Energy’s $300 million offering of SEC-registered units consisting of senior secured notes and common stock
• Initial purchasers in NGL Energy’s $2.2 billion secured notes offering
• Initial purchasers in EQM Midstream’s $1.6 billion senior notes offering and dealer managers in concurrent cash tender offers
• Underwriters in SPAC IPO by Iconic Sports Acquisition Corp.
• Initial purchasers in high yield senior notes offering and underwriters in exchangeable senior notes offering by Centennial Resource Development
• Initial purchasers and underwriters in offerings by Kosmos Energy of high yield senior notes and secondary offerings of the company’s common shares
• Initial purchasers in high yield senior notes offerings for Noble Corporation, AmeriGas Partners, Helix Energy, USA Compression and WeWork
• Underwriters in investment grade debt offerings by EQT Corporation, Northrop Grumman, Philip Morris International and Altria; dealer managers in exchange offer and consent solicitation by Northrop Grumman
• Dealer managers in exchange offer in connection with strategic transaction by Superior Energy Services
• Dealer managers in uptier exchange offer and consent solicitation by GameStop; dealer managers in GameStop’s “modified Dutch auction” tender offer for shares of its Class A common stock

Richie received his B.S. from Fordham University, summa cum laude, and his J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is admitted to practice in Texas and New York.