About Maximilien Pucci-Sisti Maisonrouge

When it comes to financing transactions, financial institutions, banks, corporate borrowers and private equity, sponsors appreciate Max Maisonrouge's work ethic, attention to detail and commercial approach. His experience encompasses a wide variety of deal types, such as unitranche, first and second lien credit facilities, investment grade, middle-market and large-cap financings, cross-border and domestic acquisition financings, and debt restructuring transactions.

End-to-end transactional counsel

Adept at handling deals of varying complexity, Max sees the big picture when managing and supervising transactions from the term sheet stage through closing. He works closely with his clients to understand their business and the circumstances surrounding the transaction, allowing him to develop creative and effective deal structures and facilities for both borrowers and lenders. With a commitment to client service, Max's ability to navigate intricate transactions and provide reliable guidance makes him an invaluable asset to his clients.

Representative Experience

  • Advised a financial institution as administrative agent, and as joint lead arrangers and joint bookrunners, in a $21.8 billion bridge and term loan facilities and a $5 billion revolving working capital facility to support the $55 billion acquisition by an international energy company of an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. *
  • Advised a financial institution, as administrative agent, in an amended and extended $4 billion senior unsecured revolving facility featuring sustainability-linked pricing for an international energy company. *
  • Advised a financial institution, as administrative agent and arranger, in a $2.75 billion amended and extended senior unsecured revolving facility for a medical technology company to increase the existing facility and extend its maturity. *
  • Advised financial institutions as agents and lenders in a $2 billion amended and extended senior unsecured revolving facility for a chemical manufacturing company. *
  • Advised a major airline in a $1.928 billion senior secured term facility under the CARES Act, to maintain liquidity during a prolonged national health emergency. *
  • Advised a financial institution as administrative agent in an amended and upsized $1.9 billion asset-based revolving credit facility for a diversified health care services company, to temporarily increase aggregate credit commitments. *
  • Advised a financial institution as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and bookrunner, in a $1.5 billion senior unsecured revolving facility for an aerospace company to finance a spin-off as one of two stand-alone, publicly traded companies. *
  • Advised a financial institution as administrative agent in a $1.25 billion senior secured multicurrency term facility for a gaming and entertainment company to refinance its existing capital structure. *
  • Advised an American software, hardware, and services technology company as administrative agent, joint lead arranger and joint bookrunner, in a $1.25 billion unsecured revolving facility to finance acquisitions and refinance existing indebtedness. *
  • Advised a financial institution as administrative agent, in an amended and extended $155 million asset-based senior secured revolving facility for a mining company. *
  • Advised a financial services company, as administrative agent, in a $200 million senior unsecured term facility for an aerospace company. *
  • Advised a financial services company, as administrative agent, in a $223 million senior unsecured term facility for an aerospace company. *
  • Advised a venture capital firm, as administrative agent and collateral agent, in a $120 million senior secured term facility for a data and analytics company to fund acquisitions and refinance existing indebtedness. *
  • Advised a discount retail company in a $100 million senior secured facilities to refinance existing ABL indebtedness. *
  • Advised a financial technology company in its $80 million first lien senior secured term loan facility upon emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. *
  • Advised a global alternative investment firm as lender and holder in an up to $20 million first lien term loan for a medical technology company simultaneously with an exchange of outstanding senior convertible notes for second lien secured notes, shares of common stock and warrants, to provide working capital. *
  • Advised a real estate finance company as administrative agent, sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner, in a senior unsecured term facility to finance the acquisition of a health care company. *
  • Advised a private equity firm in an incremental second-lien term facility to finance the acquisition of a finance company. *
* Experience prior to Katten

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Practices
Education
  • Washington University in St. Louis, JD
  • Princeton University, BA
Bar Admissions
  • New York
Community Involvements
  • New York City Bar Association, Banking Law Committee
  • National Dance Institute, Board of Directors Co-Vice-Chair
  • Princeton University Alumni Association, Alumni Interviewer
Languages
  • French