Guy F. Guinn is a co-chair of the global Banking & Finance Practice Segment of Squire Sanders’ Financial Services Practice Group. With more than 30 years of debt finance experience, Guy provides balanced judgment and technical guidance to financing and restructuring engagements for national and international financial institutions and corporate clients.

Guy has represented these clients on all aspects of structuring domestic and cross-border asset-based financings as well as leveraged commercial and real estate financings, mezzanine financings and note placements and related restructurings, workouts, and debtor-in-possession and exit financings. These engagements have involved a broad range of industries including chemicals, aviation, aggregates, agricultural business, energy, international supply chain, technology manufacturing, construction products, real estate development and consumer products. Reflecting the credit crisis and the downturn, Guy’s depth of experience has been sought by a variety of clients for a diverse range of syndicate financing issues as well as debt restructuring and repurchase transactions.

Guy is an active member of the American and Ohio State Bar Associations including being a past chair of the ABA’s Business Law Section Joint Subcommittee on Domestic and International Business Transactions and the Ohio State Bar Association’s Opinion and Loan Documentation Subcommittee. He has served on the ABA Business Law Section Task Force on Deposit Account Control Agreements and Task Force on Model Second Lien Intercreditor Agreements. Guy is consistently recognized as one of America’s leading lawyers in Chambers USA. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 1995, including being named Cleveland Best Lawyers Banking Lawyer of the Year, and has been recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer each year since 2005.

Representative Experience

• Representing a privately held construction product manufacturer for US$425 million secured financing and related US$100 million secured note placement in connection with its US$800 million equity and debt recapitalization.
• Representing a NYSE public insurance holding company, HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc, in its US$90 million letter of credit facility to support capital adequacy requirements for its Lloyds of London insurance members and syndicate manager.
• Representing KeyBank National Association, as lead agent, in connection with amending and restating a US$135 million facility for cross border, multi-jurisdictional secured financing including secured Borrowers in three EU jurisdictions.
• Representing PNC, National Association, as lead agent, in amending and restating US$100 million secured revolving credit facility in connection with a refinancing of US$100 million unsecured public notes with secured US$125 million private notes in a split collateral pool transaction.
• Representing a NYSE public insurance holding company, HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc, in its US$650 million syndicated financing.
• Representing KeyBank NA, as lead agent, in the restructuring of US$85 million asset based secured financing in connection with recapitalization of a borrower.Ÿ 
• Representing US Bank National Association, as collateral agent, in connection with structuring collateral agent arrangements and collateral packages for holders of US$800 million senior secured bank debt and private note placements.Ÿ 
• Representing a private energy trading company in connection with the refinancing of its US$150 million financing revolving credit facility.Ÿ 
• Representing KeyBank National Association, as lead agent, in connection with the US$125 million secured acquisition financing for sponsor’s portfolio company acquisition of an international manufacturing company with operations in China, Europe and the Cayman Islands.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$100 million asset-based, syndicated credit facility in conjunction with a US$200 million syndicated term loan facility for a retail products company.
• Representing a public chemical company in connection with its US$2.8 billion acquisition financing consisting of senior revolving credit facilities, interim bridge facility and securitization facilities.
• Representing an internationally based financial institution in connection with its United States insolvency proceedings and with its lender status in numerous syndicate transactions.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$150 million asset-based, cross border, syndicated credit facility in conjunction with a split collateral pool.
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$90 million asset-based, cross-border syndicated credit facility for commercial industrial metals/material distributor.Ÿ 
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$150 million multicurrency, cross-border syndicated secured credit facility for an industrial component manufacturer.Ÿ 
• Representing a natural gas remarketer in connection with a US$155 million secured credit financing.Ÿ 
• Representing the lead agent in connection with a US$250 million syndicated credit facility for an electric generating joint venture.Ÿ 
• Representing the lead agent in connection with the restructuring of a syndicated US$70 million senior credit facility for a sponsor-owned technology/chemical manufacturing company.Ÿ 
• Representing the lead agent in connection with the restructuring and refinancing of a US$60 million US/Canada cross-border credit facility for a Tier 2 automotive supplier.
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with a US$475 million secured syndicated credit facility for an aggregates company.Ÿ 
• Representing an industrial manufacturing company in connection with a US$500 million multicurrency syndicated credit facility.Ÿ 
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with a US$100 million secured syndicated credit facility for a technology manufacturing company.Ÿ 
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with a US$80 million multicurrency, multijurisdictional secured credit facility for a private equity fund purchase of a technology company.Ÿ 
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with a restructuring of a US$275 million secured syndicated credit facility for an Ohio-based company.Ÿ 
• Representing a syndicate agent and senior lender group in connection with a US$82 million secured credit facility financing a Midwestern private equity fund purchase of a US-based hydraulic system distribution company.
• Representing a US-based diversified company in a US$100 million trade receivables securitization.
• Representing US-based subsidiaries of a Europe-based manufacturing company in a US$250 million trade receivables securitization.
• Providing regular representation to an asset-based lender in transactions ranging in size from US$20 million to US$150 million.Ÿ 
• Providing regular transaction counsel to an Ohio issuer of note and bond issues ranging from US$300 million to US$1 billion backed by student loan notes.Ÿ 
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with a US$85 million roll-up acquisition facility for a private equity group for acquisitions in aluminum production manufacturing industry.
• Representing a syndicate agent in connection with restructuring and refinancing of a US/Canada cross-border credit facility for a Tier 2 automotive supplier.