Michelle Gasaway
About
Provided by Michelle Gasaway
Practice Areas
Michelle Gasaway represents corporate and REIT clients, special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), private equity sponsors, investment banks and other investors in a broad range of traditional and complex securities and capital markets transactions. She has extensive experience advising on initial public offerings (IPOs); registered direct offerings; pre-IPO investments, PIPEs, funding rounds and other private placements; investment grade debt, convertible debt and high-yield debt, including green, social and sustainability-linked bonds; offerings of common stock, preferred stock, mezzanine securities, warrants and other equity securities; “at-the market” (ATM) programs and equity lines of credit; tender offers, exchange offers and consent solicitations; spin-offs; rights offerings, recapitalizations, restructurings, distressed financings and other liquidity transactions; acquisition financings and de-SPAC transactions; and other customized transactions.
Highlights include matters involving: Adobe; Affirm Holdings; Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO); Assembly Biosciences; Caesars Entertainment; Chardan Capital Markets; Coupa Software; Crown Castle; Dole; Hycroft Mining; Intel; Jane Street Capital; Livongo; Mobileye; O’Reilly Automotive; Oaktree Capital; PLBY Group; Public Storage; Senti Biosciences; SIGNA Sports United; SoFi; Southwestern Energy; Veritas Capital; WeWork and Xilinx.
Personal
J.D., Harvard Law School (cum laude); M.B.A., University of Georgia (summa cum laude); B.S., University of Georgia (summa cum laude)
Ms. Gasaway was named a Top 100 Lawyer (2023) and a Woman of Influence (2021) by the Los Angeles Business Journal and a Top Women Lawyer by the Daily Journal in 2020. She was named Best in Capital Markets at Euromoney’s 2020 Women in Business Law Americas Awards, named one of The Deal’s 2020 Top Women in Dealmaking and has been named to The Legal 500 U.S., IFLR1000 and The Best Lawyers in America.
Chambers Review
USA
Michelle Gasaway has a comprehensive debt and equity practice, with notable capabilities in guiding clients through their IPOs, including advising special purpose acquisition companies on going public.
Michelle Gasaway has a comprehensive debt and equity practice, with notable capabilities in guiding clients through their IPOs, including advising special purpose acquisition companies on going public.
Michelle Gasaway has a comprehensive debt and equity practice, with notable capabilities in guiding clients through their IPOs, including advising special purpose acquisition companies on going public.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She's excellent, she is thoughtful, smart and collaborative."
"She's excellent, she is thoughtful, smart and collaborative."
"She's excellent, she is thoughtful, smart and collaborative."
"She's excellent, she is thoughtful, smart and collaborative."
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