Rick Thide
Rick Thide represents banks, finance companies, and corporate borrowers in a broad range of U.S. and multi-national commercial finance transactions. He also advises secured creditors and debtors in a variety of creditors’ rights and insolvency matters, including restructurings, workouts, and cash collateral and debtor-in-possession financings. Rick works with a wide range of clients, but has particular experience in the retail, technology, healthcare, and consumer products industries.
Representative Engagements
- Represented a national bank as agent in a $1.6 billion multi-currency asset-based credit facility to a jewelry retailer.
- Represented a joint venture investor group in connection with $2.3 billion in asset-based credit facilities to support the investor group’s purchase out of bankruptcy of substantially all operating assets of a national department store retailer.
- Represented a national bank as agent in a $3.1 billion asset-based credit facility to a leading national drugstore retailer.
- Represented a national bank as agent in a $725 million asset-based debtor-in-possession credit facility to a department store retailer through the retailer’s bankruptcy and liquidation.
- Represented a national bank as agent in a $272.5 million asset-based debtor-in-possession credit facility to a specialty children’s apparel retailer through the retailer’s bankruptcy and reorganization, and in a $200 million asset-based revolving credit facility to support the retailer’s exit from bankruptcy.
- Represented a national bank as agent in a $400 million credit facility to support the acquisition of an MLB club.
- Represented a lender group in connection with a $222 million multi-tranche credit facility to a national health club chain and related workout arrangements.
Education & Credentials
- Boston College Law School
- JD, 2013
- The George Washington University
- BA, 2008, summa cum laude
Admissions
Massachusetts
New York
Focus Area
Rick's Insights
Announcements 01.02.2024
Choate Elects Four to Partnership
Four Choate attorneys – Shaun Barnes, John Marshall Chambers, Shaina Wamsley London, and Rick Thide - have been elected to partnership of the firm, effective January 1, 2024.