Charles (Beau) Sterling

Beau Sterling’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions.

He concentrates on structured finance transactions, as well as environmental matters.

Beau is involved with the Washington office’s Diversity Committee, Recruiting Committee, and Disaster Recovery Committee.

Beau joined the firm in 2010, became counsel in 2019, and became a partner in 2024.

Regularly advises arrangers in the structuring and offering of CLOs and has been instrumental in more than $30 billion in such transactions since 2021
Counsel to the underwriters on more than $415 billion in Ginnie Mae mortgage-backed transactions since 2018, including representing Amherst Pierpont in the first-ever Ginnie Mae transaction to include a tranche indexed to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate
Major underwriters such as Mizuho, Natixis, and Nomura and collateral managers, such as Silver Point, in the structuring and offering of CLOs
A major first loss provider in CLO warehouses

Warburg Pincus and its portfolio companies in acquisitions and divestitures in manufacturing, healthcare, food, pharmaceutical, aerospace, and other industries
Wafra in its $115 million acquisition of Hawthorne Global Aviation Services
Altaris Capital Partners and its portfolio companies in acquisitions in the pharmaceutical and medical manufacturing industries
Tech Data Corporation in its $2.6 billion acquisition of the technology solutions business of Avnet, Inc.
Air Liquide in its $13.4 billion acquisition of Airgas
Henkel in its $3.6 billion acquisition of Sun Products Corporation
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company in its $5.2 billion acquisition of ARIAD Pharmaceuticals
Saint-Gobain in its $1.4 billion acquisition of Continental Building Products
Sysco Corporation in its acquisition of Coastal Group Intermediate Holdings LLC and its subsidiaries
Sony Interactive Entertainment in its acquisition of Bungie, Inc.
Westlake Chemical Corporation in its acquisition of Hexion’s global epoxy business for approximately $1.2 billion
Brookfield Business Partners L.P with institutional partners in its $5.8 billion acquisition of Scientific Games Corporation’s global lottery services and technology business
Bio Pappel in its acquisition of Midwest Paper Group Holdings Inc. and its subsidiaries

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