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Joshua Ford Bonnie

Joshua Ford Bonnie

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Co-Head of the Firm’s Global Capital Markets Practice, Co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s Boston and Washington, D.C. offices and member of the Executive Committee, Josh Bonnie is one of the nation’s preeminent IPO lawyers and regularly counsels public companies on significant strategic transactions, capital markets offerings and general corporate and securities law matters. Josh advised Blackstone, Bumble, Carlyle, Flutter, Hilton Worldwide, Invitation Homes, MasterCard and Medline on their landmark listings. Josh also counseled Blackstone on its spinoff of its financial advisory businesses, Dover Corporation on its spinoff of its upstream energy business, Hilton Worldwide on its spinoffs of its real estate and timeshare businesses and Ingersoll Rand on its spinoff of its commercial and residential security businesses. Josh routinely advises asset management firms on situations of strategic importance.

Career

Joined Firm, 1996; Partner, 2005.

Personal

University of Virginia, B.A. (1991); J.D. (1995).

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Chambers Global Guide

Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United States - USA

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Individual Editorial

Joshua Ford Bonnie is a distinguished capital markets attorney, who regularly assists clients with high profile IPOs, among other equity and debt financings.

Strengths

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  • He has strong legal knowledge and expertise with impeccable business sense.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United StatesChambers Global Guide
  • He's an in-house counsel's best outside counsel.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United StatesChambers Global Guide
  • He is a special intellect and high energy capital markets lawyer. He tackles the most complex capital markets transactions around.

    Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Eastern United StatesChambers Global Guide

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