Keith Cooper

Keith Cooper is an associate in the firm’s Business Law department and is a member of the Private Equity and Debt Finance groups. Keith primarily represents borrowers across a wide variety of financing transactions, including leveraged buyouts, structured financings, refinancings, recapitalizations and restructurings. Keith has broad experience representing clients in the private equity, healthcare, industrials, technology, financial services and software industries.

Prior to joining Goodwin in 2025, Keith was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and before that an associate at Kirkland and Ellis LLP.

• Representation of a New York-based private equity firm in:
  • amending its software portfolio company’s credit agreement to permit a $40.0 million dividend transaction*
  • securing a $1.07 billion senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of a software company*
  • securing a $1.04 billion senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of a pharmaceutical intelligence company, which included providing collateral in several foreign jurisdictions*
  • securing a $515.0 million senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of a healthcare company, which included providing collateral in a foreign jurisdiction*
• Representation of a software corporation in refinancing its $400.0 million senior secured credit facility*
• Representation of a Fortune 500 large-scale manufacturer and supplier of building materials in amending its credit agreement to increase the size of its revolving credit facility to $1.8 billion*
• Representation of a Boston-based private equity firm in:
  • securing a $200.0 million senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of a cloud-based software company*
  • securing a $500.0 million senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of a healthcare data enablement company*
  • securing a $100.0 million equivalent senior secured credit facility, comprised of separate US dollar and euro tranches, for its acquisition of a product information management company, which included providing collateral in a foreign jurisdiction*
  • refinancing its healthcare insurance portfolio company’s $1.65 billion first-lien and second-lien credit facilities, which included providing collateral over 228 loan parties*
• Representation of a Florida-based private equity firm in:
  • securing a $70.0 million senior secured credit facility for its acquisition of an infrastructure contracting company*
  • amending its electrical and fiber optic solutions portfolio company’s credit agreement to permit an acquisition of a wireless communications company*
• Representation of a Connecticut-based private equity firm in securing a $100.0 million senior secured asset-based lending credit facility for its acquisition of a fleet equipment provider of heavy trucks*
• Representation of a Connecticut-based private equity firm in securing a $450.0 million senior secured term loan facility and a $100.0 million senior secured asset-based lending credit facility for its acquisition of a manufacturer and designer of performance gear and technologies*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Keith was a judicial extern in Summer 2019 for the Honorable Karen L. Stevenson in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

While at law school, Keith was the senior productions editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review.