Emily C. Weiss-Cook is an associate in the corporate department in New York. She advises clients on a variety of capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, securities laws and shareholder activism matters.

Prior to joining the firm in 2022, Emily was a corporate associate in the New York office of a premier U.S. law firm, where she advised clients on capital markets, banking and finance, mergers & acquisitions and general corporate matters.

Experience

Examples of representative matters include:

  • Represented Zenas BioPharma, Inc. in its $225 million initial public offering
  • Represented LPL Holdings, Inc. in multiple investment grade bond offerings totaling $1.75 billion
  • Represented the underwriters in follow-on offerings by Biohaven Ltd. totaling more than $700 million
  • Represented Foghorn Therapeutics, Inc. in its registered direct offering of shares of common stock and pre-funded warrants totaling $110 million
  • Represented Eversource Energy and its subsidiaries through $3.85 billion in debt offerings and other capital markets transactions
  • Represented LifeStance Health in the $125 million secondary offering by certain selling stockholders
  • Represented Servpro Industries, LLC, a portfolio company of The Blackstone Group Inc., in a $500 million whole-business securitization financing
  • Represented the underwriters in numerous notes offerings for Blackstone Private Credit Fund totaling $1 billion
  • Represented the underwriters in a follow-on offering for Blackstone Secured Lending Fund totaling approximately $175 million
  • Represented numerous issuers in establishing at-the-market offering programs.
  • Represented TravelCenters of America in its acquisition by BP.
  • Represented Radius Health in its acquisition by Gurnet Point and Patient Square.
  • Represented Northrop Grumman Corporation in connection with its offer to exchange new unsecured notes for up to approximately $1.2 billion of existing notes.*
  • Represented the underwriter in connection with the $200 million initial public offering of units of World Quantum Growth Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.*
  • Represented Crown Castle International Corp. in connection with its $750 million registered senior notes offering.*
  • Represented the underwriters in connection with the $1.5 billion registered senior notes offering of Skyworks Solutions, Inc.*
  • Represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $500 million 144A/Reg. S high-yield senior secured notes offering of WW International, Inc.*
  • Represented the initial purchasers in connection with the $300 million 144A/Reg. S high-yield senior secured second-lien notes offering of Arconic Corporation.*
  • Represented the underwriters in connection with the $2.2 billion registered high-yield senior notes offering of Centene Corporation.*

*Prior to joining Ropes & Gray

Areas of Practice