Stephen Double

Stephen J. Double is a financial and corporate transactions attorney in Holland & Knight's New York City office and a member of the firm's Financial Services Team. Mr. Double regularly represents a wide range of lenders and underwriters, as well as corporate and financial institution issuers and borrowers, on cross-border and domestic capital markets, syndicated lending, acquisition finance, structured finance, project bond and trade finance transactions.

Mr. Double advises on cross-border and domestic corporate issues and on a variety of debt (senior, subordinated and high-yield), equity and equity-linked securities offerings, as well as project bonds and structured finance and securitization transactions, by issuers in the financial services, oil and gas, software, energy, media, transportation and infrastructure, agribusiness and other sectors, as well as sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers. He frequently advises on securities offerings made pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S, as well as private placement transactions made to sophisticated investors pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act. Mr. Double also has extensive experience representing foreign private issuers with respect to their periodic U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting requirements.

In addition, Mr. Double advises bank and fund lenders, as well as corporate and financial institution borrowers, on cross-border and domestic syndicated lending, acquisition finance, structured finance and trade finance transactions. Many of the transactions on which he advises include collateral packages both within and outside of the U.S.

Mr. Double has extensive experience in the area of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) financings, including International Capital Market Association (ICMA)-compliant green bonds as well as sustainability-linked debt products. One of his recent ESG finance transactions was awarded "Financing Innovation of the Year" by Latin Finance Magazine in 2020 as the first sustainability-linked loan transaction by a Latin American company.

Mr. Double also advises clients on private merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions, primarily in Latin America.