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Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel - USA

3

Band 3

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

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.

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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.

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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.

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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.

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

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.

Capital Markets: Equity: Manager Counsel respondent
Global

Notable Practitioners

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1

David Lopez

1

Band 1

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.

1

Jeffrey D Karpf

1

Band 1

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.

He is an industry leading capital markets lawyer.

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

3

Craig B Brod

3

Band 3

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.

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.

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

4

Ilir Mujalovic

4

Band 4

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.

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.

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.

5

Adam Fleisher

5

Band 5

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.

Adam is a fantastic capital markets advisor.

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

Adam provides outstanding advice.

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

Andrew Bernstein

Expertise Based Abroad

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.

John Brinitzer

Expertise Based Abroad

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.

Sebastian R Sperber

Expertise Based Abroad

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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Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Andrew Bernstein

USA, expertise based abroad in France

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Francesca Odell

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Foreign expert for Brazil

John Brinitzer

USA, expertise based abroad in France

F

Jorge U. Juantorena

F

Foreign expert for Latin America-wide

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Manuel Silva

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Foreign expert for Latin America-wide

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Nicolas Grabar

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Foreign expert for Brazil

Sebastian R Sperber

USA, expertise based abroad in UK

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States

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David Lopez

1

Band 1

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Jeffrey D Karpf

1

Band 1

3

Craig B Brod

3

Band 3

4

Ilir Mujalovic

4

Band 4

5

Adam Fleisher

5

Band 5