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Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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Capital Markets: Equity: Issuer Counsel - USA

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP is a fully integrated capital markets practice whose lawyers are able to draw upon specialties and experience from the firm’s tax, bankruptcy, and M&A teams. The attorneys are adept at handling a variety of high value transactional matters for a broad client base, possessing significant capacity in complex cross border transactions. The firm possesses notable experience advising on both SEC-registered and private securities offerings.

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Work Highlights

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  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP represented the underwriters to American Express in its $3 billion multi-tranche debt offering.

Strengths

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  • Cleary are one of the strongest firms handling complex and sophisticated capital markets transactions both in the US and globally.

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  • The Cleary team are responsive, commercially savvy and know the bounds to stay within while creating as much flexibility as possible.

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  • Cleary's lawyers are the most reliable partners. We fully trust their advice and feel comfortable having them on our side or across the table.

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  • Cleary provides creative and practical advice to harmonize local laws with US laws.

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  • The Cleary team is always up to date with our business's updates and industry trends. Every lawyer from the Cleary team I've worked with is extremely knowledgeable and skilled.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • David Lopez
    David Lopez

    David Lopez

    David Lopez stands out for his high quality representation of major companies and dealer-managers on complex bond and stock offerings. He is especially sought after for his expertise in liability management.

    • David is a thoughtful and creative professional. He is a skilled negotiator and problem solver.

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  • Jeffrey D Karpf
    Jeffrey D Karpf

    Jeffrey D Karpf

    Jeffrey Karpf maintains an excellent reputation for his work on high-yield and investment-grade debt transactions, representing both investment banks and issuing companies. He balances his leading role in debt capital markets with an active equity practice.

    • Jeffrey has been a great client relationship partner.

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    • He is an industry leading capital markets lawyer.

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    • The respect that he garners enables for transactions to proceed smoothly and efficiently.

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  • Craig B Brod
    Craig B Brod

    Craig B Brod

    Craig Brod is renowned for his versatile practice, which sees him acting for issuers and underwriters on the full spectrum of capital markets matters.

    • He is a very good relationship partner and a very strong capital markers lawyer too.

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    • Craig is a very strong corporate lawyer. His meticulousness and attention to detail are a tremendous asset to his clients. He is thoughtful and insightful.

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    • Craig is incredible, he is the epitome of a relationship partner. He is very practical and very knowledgeable.

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  • Ilir Mujalovic
    Ilir Mujalovic

    Ilir Mujalovic

    Ilir Mujalovic is adept at the representation of both issuers and underwriters on a broad array of capital markets transactions.

    • Ilir is my go-to lawyer on capital market deals. He is extremely hands-on, great from a customer services standpoint, diligent, thorough and with great things to say.

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    • Ilir is the most thoughtful and robust underwriter counsel that I have come across. He is highly responsive, very comprehensive, and delivers A&O Sherman’s resources as necessary to meet client needs.

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    • Ilir is fantastic, he has an excellent sense of how to manage transactions and lead a team, how to solve problems and be able to deliver a really excellent service.

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  • Adam Fleisher
    Adam Fleisher

    Adam Fleisher

    Adam Fleisher is revered for his capital markets practice, which forms a key component of his wider corporate practice.

    • Look to him to give guidance and for his calm minded judgment when we needed him the most.

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    • Adam is a fantastic capital markets advisor.

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    • Adam is an exceptional attorney who provides practical and actionable advice.

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    • Adam provides outstanding advice.

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    • Adam is excellent; he has seen it all and is able to ensure we remain careful but commercial.

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  • Andrew Bernstein
    Andrew Bernstein

    Andrew Bernstein

    Dual-qualified in France and the USA, Andrew Bernstein has a practice that spans both debt and equity capital markets. He advises on notes offerings, Panda bonds, IPOs and share capital increases.
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  • John Brinitzer
    John Brinitzer

    John Brinitzer

    John Brinitzer is a renowned equity specialist who is qualified to practise at the Paris and New York Bars. He advises on high-value IPOs within the tech and biotech sectors, in addition to convertible bonds and rights offerings.
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  • Sebastian R Sperber
    Sebastian R Sperber

    Sebastian R Sperber

    Sebastian Sperber is highly respected for his broad expertise across ECM and DCM transactions. International matters form a key part of his practice.
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