Experience
Initial Public Offerings
- TPG Inc. Represented the underwriters in the $1.1 billion IPO for TPG Inc., a leading global alternative asset manager.
- Olaplex Holdings. Represented Olaplex Holdings, a global maker of hair care products, and Advent International as selling shareholder in the company’s $1.8 billion IPO.
- LianBio. Represented LianBio, a biopharmaceutical company focused on treatments for various cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and other diseases, in its $325 million IPO.
- Duckhorn Portfolio, Inc. Represented Duckhorn Portfolio, premier luxury wine producer in North America, in its $345 million IPO.
- McAfee Corp. Represented McAfee Corp, a global computer security software company, in its $740 million IPO.
- Pershing Square Tontine Holdings. Represented the underwriters in the $4 billion IPO for Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company. This is the largest SPAC IPO to date, and the largest IPO of 2020.
- Foghorn Therapeus Inc. Represented Foghorn Therapeutics, a pharmaceutical company targeting genetically determined dependencies, in its $120 million IPO.
- Revolve Group, Inc. Represented the lead underwriters in the $244 million IPO for Revolve Group, Inc., a global online fashion retailer.
- Avantor, Inc. Represented the lead underwriters in the $3.3 billion IPO for Avantor, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of life sciences products and portfolio company of New Mountain Capital.
- Moderna, Inc. Represented the lead underwriters in the US$604 million IPO for Moderna, Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company developing therapeutics and vaccines based on messenger RNA.
- Beam Therapeutics, Inc. Represented Beam Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing precision genetic medicines through base editing, in its $180 million IPO.
Follow-On Offerings
- ImmunoGen Inc. Represented ImmunoGen, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on cancer treatments, in its $257 million follow-on offering.
- Avantor, Inc. Represented the underwriters in the $1 billion follow-on offering for Avantor, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of life sciences products and portfolio company of New Mountain Capital.
- Clarivate plc. Represented Baring Private Equity Asia as selling stockholder in the $631 million follow-on offering for Clarivate Plc, an information services and analytics company focused on the technology and life sciences sectors.
- Canada Goose Holdings. Represented Canada Goose Holdings, a Canadian holding company of winter clothing manufacturers, in an aggregate of $1.5 billion in several follow-on offerings.
- Elanco Animal Health. Represented the lead underwriters in an aggregate of $2.9 billion in several follow-on offerings for Elanco Animal Health, an animal health company that innovates, develops, manufactures and markets products for companion and food animals.
- Eversource Energy. Represented Eversource Energy, a public utility company, in an aggregate of $1.8 billion in several follow-on offerings.
- Novavax Inc. Represented Novavax Inc., a biotechnology company, in an aggregate of $1 billion in several follow-on offerings.
- bluebird bio. Represented the lead underwriters in an aggregate of $2.1 billion in several follow-on offerings for bluebird bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company.
- Cushman & Wakefield PLC. Represented the lead underwriters in an aggregate of $476 million in two follow-on offerings for Cushman & Wakefield PLC, a provider of real estate services for owners, tenants, and investors.
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions. Represented Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a provider of employer-sponsored childcare, in an aggregate of $3.05 billion in 11 individual follow-on offerings.
- IQVIA Holdings. Represented IMS Health, a provider of information, services, and technology for the healthcare industry, in an aggregate of $3.7 billion in several follow-on offerings.
Investment-Grade Debt Transactions
- Eversource Energy. Represented Eversource Energy and its subsidiaries on investment grade debt transactions with aggregate proceeds of over $3.5 billion.
- Blackstone Private Credit Fund. Represented the underwriters in numerous USD, EUR and GBP-denominated 144A investment grade bond offerings, raising aggregate proceeds of over $5 billion.
- Tronox Holdings plc. Represented Tronox Holdings, a vertically integrated mining and inorganic chemical company, in an aggregate of $1.6 billion in high yield offerings.
- Dollar General. Represented the lead underwriters in the $1.5 billion investment grade offering for Dollar General, a variety store company.
- TJX Companies. Represented TJX Companies in multiple senior unsecured notes offerings worth an aggregate of $5 billion.
High-Yield Debt Offerings
- Cablevision Lightpath. Represented Cablevision Lightpath, a telecommunications company, in its $865 million high-yield notes offering.
- LPL Financial Holdings. Represented LPL Financial Holdings in several high-yield notes offerings with aggregate proceeds of $1.5 billion.
- Trinseo PLC. Represented Trinseo PLC, a global materials manufacturer, in its $450 million high-yield notes offering.
Convertible Offerings
- Two Harbors Investment Corp. Represented the underwriters in the $287.5 million offering of convertible senior notes for Two Harbors Investment Corp., a mortgage REIT.
- IQVIA Holdings. Represented IQVIA, a multinational company providing market intelligence to health information technology and clinical research industries, in an aggregate of $5.25 billion in several convertible notes offerings.
- Verastem, Inc. Represented Verastem, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing medicines to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients, in its $150 million convertible notes offering.
- Insmed Incorporated. Represented the lead underwriter in the $450 million and $575 million convertible notes offering for Insmed Incorporated, a developer of inhaled therapies for patients with lung disease.
- LPL Financial. Represented LPL Financial, a company that offers securities brokerage and investment advisory services, in its $412 million convertible notes offering.
- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals. Represented Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company dedicated to creating, developing, and commercializing innovative human medicines, in its $400 million convertible notes offering.
Securitizations
- Hooters of America. Represented Tri Artisan Capital Partners and its portfolio company, Hooters of America, a U.S. operator and franchisor of restaurants, in its $315 million whole-business securitization.
- Servpro Industries. Represented Servpro Industries, a Blackstone Group portfolio company and trusted leader in the restoration and reconstruction services industry, in its $260 million whole-business securitization.
- Planet Fitness. Advised Planet Fitness on two securitization financing transactions worth an aggregate of over $2 billion. This included an offering of $1.2 billion in senior secured term notes and $75 million in senior secured variable funding notes, which function as a revolving financing facility, as well as a separate $900 million offering of senior secured term notes.
- Dunkin’ Brands. Represented Dunkin' Brands, which operates a chain of coffee and baked goods restaurants, and ice cream specialty stores, in structuring and obtaining $1.975 billion of aggregate financing to refinancing its “whole business securitization” and fund a shareholder dividend.
- Domino’s Pizza. Represented Domino’s Pizza, the leading pizza delivery company in the world, in its $1.575 billion securitized debt offering.
- Represented an American international fast food restaurant chain company in connection with the refinancing of its whole business securitization facility.
Clients
Representative public company clients include:
- Akebia Therapeutics
- Alexion Pharmaceuticals
- Altice SA
- Bright Horizons Family Solutions
- Cabot Corporation
- Canada Goose
- DAVIDs Tea
- Domino’s Pizza
- Dunkin’ Brands Group, Inc.
- EMCOR Group
- Eversource Energy
- IQVIA Holdings Inc.
- Keurig Green Mountain
- Lantheus Medical Imaging
- Liberty Global
- LPL Financial
- The Michaels Companies
- Party City
- Pfizer
- Planet Fitness
- Samsonite International S.A.
- The TJX Companies, Inc.
- Wright Medical