Peter Ott is an experienced corporate attorney with a practice advising lenders and borrowers on all aspects of debt financing transactions, including secured and unsecured financings, senior and subordinated debt, acquisition financings, leveraged loans, revolving facilities, asset-based financings as well as debt restructurings and workouts.

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Biography

Located in Parsons Behle & Latimer’s Salt Lake City office, Peter Ott is a member of Parsons’ corporate, and banking and financial services practices. Focusing his practice on debt financing transactions, Peter has experience representing clients in a wide variety of complex financings across different industries.

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.

Prior to joining Parsons Behle & Latimer, Peter practiced as a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, where his practice focused on representing private equity sponsors, private credit lenders and public and private company clients in connection with their complex debt finance needs. He also practiced for several years at Dorsey & Whitney, LLC in Salt Lake City and White & Case LLP in Washington, D.C.

In his free time, Peter enjoys spending time with family, cooking and listening to more podcasts than he is willing to admit.

Experience

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.

Accomplishments

Academic

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

·       Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal

·       Judicial Intern for the Honorable Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court (D. Utah)

University of Utah, B.A., Political Science & Economics, magna cum laude, 2012

Associations

Professional

Utah State Bar

Bar Association of the District of Columbia 

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Credentials

Licensed

Utah
District of Columbia
Florida (inactive)

Education

University of Virginia School of Law