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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Manager Counsel

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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

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For more information about Cleary Gottlieb's Capital Markets practice, please visit https://www.clearygottlieb.com/practice-landing/capital-markets

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Capital Markets: Investment Grade Debt: Manager Counsel - USA - Nationwide

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 represented the underwriters in an $8.5 billion equity offering and a $5 billion SEC-registered notes offering by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Strengths

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  • Cleary’s advice is always insightful, helpful and practical, and its lawyers are very diligent.

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  • Cleary has superb partners and a deep bench of associates that are very capable.

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  • The team covers multinational jurisdictions exceptionally well and is extremely well coordinated to ensure consistency of coverage and service.

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  • Cleary is proactive in coming up with business-friendly solutions, meticulous in its work product and excellent at facilitating win-win results.

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  • The Cleary team consistently demonstrates strong technical know-how, sound judgment and a strategic approach to problem solving.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Jeffrey D Karpf
    Jeffrey D Karpf

    Jeffrey D Karpf

    Jeffrey Karpf is the managing partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. He 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.

    • Jeff is a trusted adviser and our go-to for high profile and sensitive matters. He knows our business very well and takes a practical, risk-based approach to issues.

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    • He is a real sounding board, extremely reliable and the person we call on for bet-the-house type issues.

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    • Jeff's expert legal abilities, coupled with his excellent business acumen, make him widely known throughout our industry as one of the leaders in the corporate and securities legal world.

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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.

    • He always has a measured and practical approach.

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    • David is extremely thoughtful. He knows the history of all products and he gives a commercial view.

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    • David is so smart and his commercial awareness is off the charts. He is the leading expert on liability management transactions.

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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.

    • Craig brings his vast and deep experience to every transaction. He is a tremendous asset in our corporate and securities matters.

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    • Craig is in tune with our business and is practical and service-oriented.

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  • Ilir Mujalovic
    Ilir Mujalovic

    Ilir Mujalovic

    Ilir Mujalovic is co-head of the firm's US capital markets team. He is particularly adept at the representation of underwriters on a broad array of capital markets transactions.

    • His personable touch is unbelievable. If he doesn't pick up right away, he'll call back promptly and always knows what's going on.

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    • Ilir is an outstanding lawyer with an extensive track record in the space.

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    • Ilir understands a lot of the risk and can put himself in our shoes and help us think through different solutions.

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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.

    • Adam is a knowledgeable and very strong capital markets lawyer.

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    • Adam is approachable, highly skilled and simply brilliant.

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    • Adam possesses extensive knowledge, not only of the law but also of accounting standards and their application.

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    • He has an encyclopedic knowledge of all of the rules and regulations.

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    • Adam is a Swiss Army knife, there's not much he cannot do.

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Ranked Individuals at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (5)

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    Jeffrey D Karpf

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    David Lopez

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    Craig B Brod

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    Ilir Mujalovic

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    Adam Fleisher

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