Alex Horn is a Raleigh attorney who helps clients navigate complex financing transactions with confidence and clarity. He focuses on private equity and debt finance, with a particular emphasis on representing a variety of private funds, including Small Business Investment Companies (SBICs).

Representative Experience

• Structured and negotiated a wide range of debt and equity financings for private credit funds, including first and second lien loans, unsecured mezzanine, unitranche debt, preferred and common equity co-investments, and warrant/equity kickers.
• Advised a private credit fund in connection with structured credit transaction financing trade receivables.
• Represented a private credit fund in connection with structured credit transaction financing of an investor in emerging markets under a U.S. government guarantee program.
• Represented a consumer finance company in connection with securitization of lease receivables.
• Represented a motorcycle leasing company in connection with securitization of lease receivables.
• Advised a private credit fund on multiple litigation financings ranging from $20-55M.
• Advised a private equity sponsor in connection with multiple financings and refinancings of class action settlement claims administrator.
• Represented $300M private credit fund in connection with leverage facility and fund formation matters.
• Advised a publicly traded water supplier on a $195 million credit facility used to acquire a publicly traded competitor in a $263 million cash-and-stock transaction.
• Guided an SBIC fund through the restructuring of a $31 million subordinated debt and equity investment in a marketing and customer engagement company.
• Represented a publicly-traded business development company in the complex restructuring of debt and equity investments in an industrial fluid reprocessing company, including multi-tranche investments and debtor-in-possession financing during a Chapter 11 proceeding.
• Helped institutional mezzanine funds navigate distressed investments, including the restructuring and eventual Article 9 sale of portfolio companies in the luxury retail and packaging supply sectors.
• Represented a commercial bank in numerous financing transactions involving venture capital-backed borrowers, with deal sizes ranging from $1 million to $20 million.
• Advised a private equity-backed food group on financing the acquisition of a UK-based food company.
• Structured financing and refinancing for a logistics company’s construction of a roll-on/roll-off cargo vessel.
• Advised a mutual fund complex on its investments in syndicated credit facilities.
• Represented one of the nation’s largest privately-held office supply companies in securing $137.5 million in senior secured credit facilities.
• Structured approximately $94 million in U.S. and CAD 236 million in Canadian credit facilities for subsidiaries of one of the world’s largest palm oil producers, owned by the Malaysian government.
• Advised a national fast-casual bakery and café franchisor on its $112 million senior secured revolving credit facility.

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D. (2005)
  Executive Editor, Connecticut Journal of International Law

• Williams College, B.A. (2000)

Admissions

• North Carolina State Bar
• S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts