M. Janine Jjingo

Ms. Jjingo frequently advises on secured and unsecured financings, acquisition financings, asset-backed loans, restructuring and debtor-in-possession financings, and other types of complex and traditional financings.

Ms. Jjingo has been ranked in Chambers USA’s Banking & Finance category and repeatedly named one of Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America and 500 Leading Dealmakers in America. Additionally, she has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, as a Rising Star in IFLR1000 and a Rising Star Best in Banking & Finance at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Rising Star Awards. Ms. Jjingo currently serves as Skadden’s global hiring partner and New York hiring partner, in addition to serving on the firm’s New York Summer Associate Committee, which she previously chaired.

Her representations have included:

• BlackRock, Inc. in a variety of matters, including its:
  • $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners
  • $12 billion acquisition of HPS
  • $6.3 billion revolving credit facility
  • $20 billion acquisition of Barclays Global Investors
• DuPont in its:
  • financing for the spin-off of its electronics business, including a $2.35 billion term loan and $1.25 million revolving credit facility for Qnity Electronics, Inc.
  • seller financing in the form of a $350 million holding company loan in connection with the sale of its Delrin business to TJC
  • $7.4 billion acquisition of Danisco A/S, a manufacturer of food ingredients
  • $3.5 billion revolving credit facility from JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
• The Kraft Heinz Company in its announced plan to separate into two independent, publicly traded companies through a tax-free spin-off
• Union Pacific Corporation in the financing aspects of its proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern Corporation
• Corporation Service Company in the financing of its $2 billion acquisition of Intertrust N.V.
• Hologic, Inc. in the refinancing of its debt facilities, which provided for a $1.17 billion term loan and a $1.25 billion revolving credit facility, as well as in the $18.3 billion acquisition of the company by funds managed by Blackstone Inc. and TPG Inc.
• Adtalem Global Education Inc. in a new credit agreement that provided for $850 million of senior secured term B loans and a $400 million of revolving credit facility to finance its acquisition of Walden e-Learning, LLC from Laureate Education, Inc.
• NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc., in two transactions for $1.3 billion in total proceeds, which provided for its sale of a 90% interest in a 1,000-MW portfolio of long-term contracted wind and solar generation facilities and a 100% interest in a 100-MW solar-plus-storage project
• NextEra Energy Partners, LP in:
  • connection with its entry into a convertible equity portfolio financing arrangement with a fund managed by BlackRock Global Energy & Power Infrastructure
  • its $1.02 billion acquisition of a portfolio of 10 wind and solar projects, collectively consisting of 1,192 megawatts. In conjunction with the acquisition, NextEra Energy Partners also entered into a US$900 million convertible equity portfolio financing with a fund managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. This transaction was named Americas Power Deal of the Year by Project Finance International and Renewables Deal of the Year by Power Finance & Risk
• Visteon Corporation in a variety of matters, including its refinancing of its debt facilities with a $300 million term facility and a $400 million revolving credit facility; and the $3.6 billion sale of its 70% stake in Halla Visteon Climate Control Corp. (South Korea)
• Key Safety Systems, Inc. in its $1.6 billion acquisition of substantially all of the assets and operations of Takata Corporation (Japan), as part of Takata’s Chapter 11 case
• Synergy Pharmaceuticals in its Chapter 11 filing, DIP financing and sale of substantially all of its assets to Bausch Health
• Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. in its $2.8 billion acquisition by Penn National Gaming, Inc.
• DST Systems, Inc. in its $5.4 billion acquisition by SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc.
• Strongbridge Biopharma plc in its $267 million acquisition by Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
• Permira Funds in connection with a first-lien $325 million term loan and $50 million revolving facility, in addition to a second-lien $120 million term loan to finance its acquisition of DiversiTech Holdings, Inc.
• Gilead in a variety of matters, including its $11.9 billion acquisition of Kite Pharma, Inc. and its $11 billion acquisition of Pharmasset, Inc.
• Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. in its:
  • $2.6 billion acquisition of Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
  • $800 million acquisition of Mercury (Cayman) Holdings, the holding company of Amoun Pharmaceutical Company S.A.E. (Egypt)
  • its $15 billion acquisition of Salix Pharmaceuticals Ltd.
• A&E Television Networks in connection with the financing of NBCUniversal Media, LLC’s $3 billion sale of its 15.8% stake in A&E to The Walt Disney Corporation and Hearst Corporation