Kevin Finch is a transactional partner in the Los Angeles office of Irell & Manella LLP. Mr. Finch maintains a broad-based corporate and transactional practice, servicing clients in a wide range of sectors, including technology, cable and telecommunications, retail, gaming and homebuilding. Mr. Finch's practice has focused a variety of transactional and related areas for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to emerging startups, entrepreneurs and investors, with emphasis on:

• Mergers and acquisitions for large and mid-scale public and private companies
• Public and private equity and high-yield debt securities offerings
• Debt restructurings for public companies, including complex tender and exchange offers
• Securities regulation and corporate governance, including Sarbanes-Oxley and general 1934 Act compliance
• Venture capital financing for emerging companies and their investors
• Intellectual property licensing and technology transfers
• Joint venture transactions for development and exploitation of intellectual property

Representative Matters

Acquisitions

• Representation of Charter Communications in acquisitions valued in excess of $5 Billion, including in connection with its acquisitions of:
  • Falcon Communications
  • Rifkin Cable
  • Interlink Communications
  • Cablevision of Michigan
  • Cable USA
  • Chat TV
• Representation of Metropolitan West Asset Management in connection with the sale of its business to TCW, Inc.
• Representation of William Lyon Homes and its employee directors in connection with its $200 Million going private transaction.
• Representation of Vulcan Ventures in connection with its acquisition of Marcus Cable and Charter Communications.

Corporate Finance and Venture Capital

• Representation of Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. in connection with its tender offers for its $135M principal amount of 8.75% Senior Notes and a portion of the $275 Million principal amount of 8.25% Senior Subordinated Notes.
• Representation of William Lyon Homes in connection with purchases (through tender offers and private purchases) of approximately $125 Million in principal amount of its senior notes.
• Representation of Charter Communications, Inc. at its affiliates in connection with the issuance and sale of over $6 Billion of high yield notes, including:
  • The issuance and sale by Charter Communications, Inc. of $900M of in convertible notes and associated registered share borrowing transaction of 150 Million common shares
  • The issuance and sale by Charter Communications Operation of $1.5 Billion principal amount of Senior Second-Lien Notes
  • The issuance and sale by CCO Holdings of $500 Million principal amount of Senior Notes and $550 million of Senior Floating Rate Notes
  • The issuance by CCH II of $1.6 Billion principal amount of Senior Notes in a private exchange for outstanding notes of affiliated entities
  • The issuance and sale by Charter Communications Holdings of $1.1 Billion of Senior Notes
• Representation of Vulcan Ventures in connection with its cumulative investments of over $400 Million in Oxygen Media.
• Representation of Vulcan Ventures in connection with its cumulative investments of over $250 Million in Digeo Broadband, Inc.
• Representation of a group of independent investors in an acquisition of control of publicly-traded wireless communications company.
• Representation of microturbine manufacturer in connection with its $142 Million Series G Preferred Stock financing and its $22 Million Series F placement of Preferred Stock and warrants.

General Securities Advice

• Mr. Finch has also acted as principal outside securities counsel for multiple public filers in connection with their periodic reporting obligations and other securities law compliance issues. 

Professional Activities

• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Bar & Court Admissions

• 1992, California