Polly Susan Swartzfager

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Engagements: Financings
  Securities Offerings
  Secured credit facilities for Platte River Equity energy services
  industrial sector portfolio companies, including Global X-Ray & Testing Corporation , Hetsco, Inc. , Car-Ber Testing Services
  The WellMark Company, Inc. Secured credit facilities for the PRV Aerospace portfolio companies of Platte River Equity , including Precision Machine Works, Inc. , Giddens Industries, Inc. , Tell Tool, Inc. , Aero Design
  Manufacturing, Inc.
  Arden Engineering, Inc. Trico Shipping AS Rule 144A offering of Senior Secured Notes ($400 million)
  senior secured revolving credit facility ($33 million). Mezzanine debt investments by Caltius Partners in Diversified Human Resources, a professional employer organization
  Bulk H
  ling Systems, a designer, manufacturer
  installer of premium conveying
  screening systems for the solid waste
  recycling materials processing industry
  
  Griplock Systems, LLC, a specialized provider of cable suspension systems. Mezzanine debt, common
  preferred stock investment by Caltius Partners in Harris Research, Inc., a leading franchisor of in-home consumer services, including Chem-Dry carpet cleaning. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. initial public offering ($645 million), secondary offering ($298 million), secured credit facility ($525 million)
  144A senior notes offering ($175 million). Secured credit facilities
  preferred stock financings for OpenPeak, Inc. , a provider of enterprise mobility management solutions. Business Acquisitions
  Dispositions
  Sale of TransZap, Inc. , a software-as-a-service provider to the oil
  gas industry, to Accel-KKR, a private equity firm. Sale by Platte River Equity of Hetsco, Inc. Sale of Dynaflo Artificial Lift Systems, LLC
  Five Star Equipment, L.L.C. , Oklahoma-based providers of ESP products
  services, to Accelerated Companies, LLC, a portfolio company of White Deer Energy L.P. Sales of assets of Vision Oil Tools, Inc.
  Piceance Fishing
  Rental, Inc. , providers of oilfield tools
  fishing services, to OFS Energy, a private equity firm. Sale of Stratos International, Inc. to Emerson Electric Company ($120 million). Sale by Aquilex Corp. of its Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control business to Siemens Power Generation, Inc.,
  its Welding Specialty Services business to GE Energy
  Industrial Services, Inc. Acquisition of various Northern
  Central Appalachian coal mining operations by Alpha Natural Resources . EchoStar Communications Corporation's acquisition of the U.S. direct broadcast satellite business of The News Corporation Limited
  MCI WorldCom, Inc. ($1.5 billion)
  Other Transactions
  Strategic alliance between The Crow Tribe of Indians (Apsaalooke Nation) of Indians
  Australian-American Energy Company with respect to the proposed development of a $7 billion coal-to-liquids project on the Crow Reservation in southeastern Montana.