Christopher Van Buren is a partner in the Capital Markets Group. He has a broad transactional practice focusing on debt and equity capital markets and other financing transactions. He advises financial sponsors, their portfolio companies and other public and private issuers on a wide range of SEC-registered and exempt offerings, including equity, high-yield and investment grade debt offerings as well as liability management and restructuring transactions. He has also counseled clients across industries on corporate governance, SEC compliance and other general corporate matters.
Prior to Paul, Weiss, Christopher’s experience included advising:
Initial Public Offerings and Direct Listings
- Privia Health Group in its $515.8 million initial public offering
- American Well Corporation in its $822.3 million initial public offering
- Watford Holdings in its direct listing
- Livent Corporation in its $340 million initial public offering
- Entera Bio in its $11 million initial public offering
- Bats Global Markets in its $252.7 million initial public offering
Investment Grade Debt Offerings
- Mastercard in its offerings of:
- $4 billion of notes due 2025, 2030 and 2050
- $1.3 billion of notes due 2031
- $750 million of notes due 2031
- €750 million of notes due 2029
- $1.5 billion of notes due 2028 and 2033
- $1 billion of notes due 2034
- $3 billion of notes due 2028, 2032 and 2035
- $1.25 billion of floating rates notes due 2028, notes due 2028 and 2032
- Leidos Holdings in its offering of $750 million of senior notes due 2033
- Automatic Data Processing in its offering of $1 billion of senior notes due 2030
- L Brands in its offering of $500 million of senior notes due 2028
High-Yield Debt Offerings
- EnVen Energy Corporation in its offering of $300 million of senior secured notes due 2026
- Victoria’s Secret & Co. in its offering of $600 million of senior notes due 2029
- L Brands in its offerings of:
- $750 million of senior secured notes due 2025
- $1 billion of senior notes due 2030
- Cleveland-Cliffs in its offering of $725 million of senior secured notes due 2026
Secondary Equity Offerings
- Mobileye Global in a:
- $825 million secondary offering by Intel
- $1.6 billion secondary offering by Intel
- ADC Therapeutics SA in a $60 million secondary offering
- Privia Health Group in a $174 million secondary offering
- L Brands in a $1.5 billion secondary offering
Follow-On Offerings
- LendingTree in its $872 million follow-on offering
- Spark Therapeutics in its $402.5 million follow-on offering
Restructuring
- Spirit Aviation Holdings in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
De-SPAC Transactions
- Taboola.com in its $2.6 billion merger with ION Acquisition
- MoneyLion in its $2.9 billion merger with Fusion Acquisition
- Valens Semiconductor in its $1.1 billion merger with PTK Acquisition
Public M&A
- Ranpak Holdings in its strategic warrant transactions with Amazon and Walmart
- MoneyLion in its acquisition of Even Financial
- Taboola.com in its 30-year commercial agreement with Yahoo
Hybrid Debt Offerings
- Emera in its offering of $750 million of fixed-to-fixed reset rate junior subordinated notes due 2056
- Capital One Financial Corporation in its offering of $1 billion of fixed-to-floating rate subordinated notes due 2032
Tender and Exchange Offers
- Leidos Holdings in its $500 million tender offer
- SLM Corporation in its:
- $2 million share preferred stock tender offer
- $1 billion common stock tender offer
- Bath & Body Works on its $500 million tender
- Clarivate in its $1.8 billion exchange offers
- L Brands in its:
- $669 million tender offer
- $1 billion tender offer
Crypto
- Circle Internet Financial in its strategic partnerships with Binance and Nubank
Preferred Stock Offerings
- Annaly Capital Management in its $275 million preferred stock offering
- Capital One Financial Corporation in its $425 million preferred stock offering
At-The-Market Offerings
- Annaly Capital Management in its $2 billion at-the-market program
- AC Immune SA in its at-the-market program
Chris has also represented investment banks in various capital markets transactions, including in the:
- $96 million initial public offering by Mission Produce
- Secondary block trades by CCC Intelligent Solutions
- $881 million secondary block trade by TD Synnex
- $314.4 million follow-on offering by Plug Power
- $2 billion secondary block trade and various investment grade offerings by Las Vegas Sands
- Various investment grade debt offerings by Sands China
- €1.5 billion investment grade debt offering by Illinois Tool Works
- $800 million investment grade debt offering by Genuine Parts Company
- Various investment grade debt offerings by Fiserv
- $1 billion investment grade debt offering by Eli Lilly
- $10.95 billion investment grade debt offering 7-Eleven in connection with its acquisition by Speedway
- $600 million exchange offers and various high-yield debt offerings PrimeSource Brands
- $2.8 billion obligor exchange offers and various high-yield debt offerings by Seagate Data Storage Technology
- $510 million high-yield debt offering by Specialty Building Products Holdings
- High-yield, convertible debt and tender offers by Century Aluminum
- High-yield debt offerings by LGI Homes
- High-yield debt offerings by Ancestry.com, including Blackstone LBO
- High-yield debt offering by PDC Energy
- $410 million convertible debt offering by Oscar Health
- $402.5 million convertible debt offering by Immunocore Holdings
- Various preferred stock offerings by Strategy, including its:
- €620 million of perpetual stream preferred stock (STRE)
- $2.5 billion of perpetual stretch preferred stock (STRC)
- $1.0 billion of perpetual stride preferred stock (STRD)
- common stock and preferred stock (STRC, STRD, STRF, STRK) at-the-market offerings
- $100 million at-the-market offering by Cohen & Steers
