Melissa Schwab Wright

Melissa Schwab Wright is a partner in the firm’s Private Equity group and a member of its Debt Finance practice. She joined Goodwin in 2015.

Melissa advises lenders and borrowers in a broad range of complex finance and restructuring transactions, and has extensive experience managing all aspects of large, syndicated, multi-tranche financings ranging from $5 million to over $2 billion. She is adept in handling cross-border matters and in working with a wide variety of industries, including waste management, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and technology. Melissa also advises lenders and borrowers across a broad array of debt transactions, including private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, syndicated, secured and investment grade strategic acquisition financings and working capital facilities, fully-followed asset-backed facilities and seller financing.

Melissa’s recent experience includes:

• Advised Fivetran, Inc. in connection with a term loan facility provided by funds managed by Vista Credit Partners
• Advised Empower Finance, Inc. in connection with a term loan facility provided by funds managed by Trinity Capital
• Advised private company in connection with a multi-draw term loan provided by funds managed by Tacora Capital Management, LP
• Advised CFT Clear Finance Technology Company in connection with a term loan provided by Silicon Valley Capital, LLC and a multi-draw term loan provided by funds managed by Pollen Street Capital, LLC
• Advised private fund client in connection with a $100 million revolving facility provided by HSBC Bank, N.A.
• Advised Covenant Testing Technologies, LLC, a portfolio company of Kingswood Capital Management, L.P., in connection with a revolving facility provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association
• Advised Versar, Inc., a portfolio company of Kingswood Capital Management, L.P., in connection with a term loan facility provided by funds managed by Star Mountain Capital and a revolving facility provided by funds managed by Wingspire Capital

Melissa has been selected for inclusion in The Legal 500 US 2022. She has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyers “Rising Star.”

Melissa’s speaking engagements include:

• Co-speaker, “Innovation and Investment in Fintech” New England AFP Conference, May 9, 2023
• “Raising Debt Capital,” BizGrow, 2017

Melissa’s publications include:

• Co-Author, “Proposed Chapter 11 Reforms May Be Bad For Borrowers,” Bankruptcy Law360, March 2015.

While in law school, Melissa was a contributing editor of the Journal of Law Reform.