Peter Ott
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Peter Ott

Partner
ott.peter@dorsey.com
Salt Lake City P +1 (801) 933-4027 F +1 (801) 795-3803

Overview

Peter helps clients across all aspects of the capital structure navigate complex financing arrangements and negotiate other commercial transactions.

Focusing his practice on debt financing transactions, Peter has experience representing clients in a wide variety of complex financings across different industries, including secured and unsecured financings, senior and subordinated debt, acquisition financings, leveraged loans, revolving facilities, and asset-based financings as well as debt restructurings and workouts.

Peter represents private equity groups, commercial lending institutions, and other private and public companies across various jurisdictions domestically and abroad. His experience includes helping clients navigate secured and unsecured financings, including senior and subordinated debt, working capital credit facilities, bridge loans, investment grade financings, acquisition financings, leveraged financings, revolving financings, and asset-based financings. Peter also has experience with debt restructurings and workouts, including liability management transactions and debtor-in-possession financings.

Education & Admissions

University of Virginia School of Law (J.D., 2015)

University of Utah (B.A., Political Science and Economics, 2012), magna cum laude

Admissions

  • Utah
  • District of Columbia

Languages

  • Spanish

Experience

Representative Work

  • Represented a global provider of integrated, digitally enabled asset performance assurance and optimization solutions, in a refinancing of certain debt under its existing first lien asset based revolving credit facility and first lien term loan facility with new $225 million first lien and refinanced $107 million second lien term loan facilities. *
  • Advised national insurance company in its refinancing of a $200 million senior secured term loan facility. *
  • Represented energy company in an amendment and restatement of a $1.1 billion senior secured asset-based revolving credit facility. *
  • Represented energy company in an amendment and restatement of a $950 million senior secured term loan B facility. *
  • Advised a global investment firm in connection with a $135 million credit facility, including revolving, term and delayed draw term loans, provided to a private mobile video game company for the purpose of refinancing existing debt and the acquisition of a separate Canadian mobile video game company. *
  • Represented an investment management company in connection with a $60 million secured term loan financing for a developer and distributor of casino table games and enhanced systems for land-based casinos. *

*Some experiences occurred prior to joining Dorsey.

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Industries & Practices

  • Banking & Financial Institutions
  • Bankruptcy & Financial Restructuring
  • Development & Infrastructure
  • Emerging Companies
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Lending Transactions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity
  • Project Development & Finance
Peter Ott