Overview
In his 35-plus years of practice, Richard Mack has handled virtually every type of financing transaction. His experience includes secured and unsecured syndicated senior credit facilities, senior and senior subordinated debt securities in public and private issuances, debt private placements, secured and unsecured mezzanine facilities, cross-border financings, letter of credit arrangements, swaps and other derivative transactions, aircraft and other equipment leases, and loans for high-net-worth individuals and families. He has advised clients in transactions across a wide variety of business lines, including manufacturing, industrial growth, insurance, transportation, technology, medical and health services, and real estate. Richard regularly represents both financial institutions and corporate clients, which ensures a balanced perspective and understanding of business issues that enables him to provide seasoned and efficient counsel in complex and difficult transactions.
Richard has an extensive background in all types of corporate and commercial transactions, including the representation of private equity firms, venture capital firms, and other public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, equity issuances, reorganizations and joint ventures.
Experience
- Regularly represents national and international banks in connection with various syndicated and bilateral senior secured and unsecured credit facilities.
- Represented a global industrial technology company in connection with its 800 million syndicated senior secured credit facilities and Rule 144A offering of $450 million senior notes.
- Represented a global insurance broker in connection with various financings, including its $5.2 billion syndicated senior secured credit facilities and Rule 144A offerings of $790 million senior notes and $750 million senior secured notes.
- Represented a global supplier of infrastructure equipment and engineered solutions in connection with its $2 billion senior secured credit facilities.
- Represents an energy infrastructure provider in connection with various financings for energy efficiency projects at military housing
- Represented a regional craft brewery in connection with its $100 million senior secured credit facilities.
- Represented a fabrics manufacturer in connection with its $250 million syndicated senior secured credit facilities.
- Represented a heavy equipment leasing company in connection with its $200 million asset-based revolving credit facilities.
- Represented a privately held adhesives manufacturer in connection with its $300 million syndicated senior secured credit facilities.
- Represented a national education loan investor in the purchase of a portfolio of education loans from a national bank.
- Represented a global drilling services and equipment company in various financings, including asset-based revolving and term credit facilities and Rule 144A offerings of $300 million senior notes and $300 million senior secured notes.
- Represented a small-loan consumer finance company in connection with a $650 million asset-based revolving credit facility.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- The Best Lawyers in America, banking and finance, corporate, 2010-26; financial services regulation, mergers and acquisitions, 2026
- Martindale-Hubbell, AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
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Education
University of Virginia, J.D., 1989, Order of the Coif; Managing Editor, Virginia Tax Review, 1988-89; Editorial Board, Virginia Law Review, 1988-89
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985, Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
