Capital Markets

Our global Capital Markets group boasts a remarkable versatility and creativity in handling the full range of offerings, including the most arcane, on behalf of clients who are among the most demanding and sophisticated consumers of legal services.

With a practice primarily focused on issuers, we are routinely handling some of the global market’s most innovative and complex equity, debt and hybrid securities offerings and the full range of registered public offerings, Rule 144A offerings and Regulation S offerings. We also represent many of the world’s preeminent private equity firms and their portfolio companies in connection with their acquisition financings, initial public offerings and subsequent financings.

We regularly guide and train boards and committees on their obligations under Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations and stock exchange rules; review internal policies on disclosure controls, investor communications, securities trading, document retention and financial analyst issues; and advise on securities law implications of stock-based employee compensation plans, employee stock purchase plans, dividend reinvestment plans, stock repurchase programs and self-tender offers. Uniquely positioned to provide best-in-class legal counsel, a number of our lawyers have held senior roles in the SEC and other key U.S. governmental agencies and self-regulatory organizations.