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Roxane Reardon Quoted in Bloomberg Law on Capital Markets Activity

05.11.20

Corporate Partner Roxane Reardon was quoted in a Bloomberg Law article on the uptick in corporate debt offerings and its impact on law firms. The article highlights the increase in capital markets activity as America’s blue chip companies have issued record amounts of debt in recent months. The volume of investment-grade debt issued through April this year is almost twice the level issued in the same period last year. The article notes Simpson Thacher has advised on the second most deals between managers and issuers through April, as compared to other firms. Roxane said, “[o]ur job is to respond as helpfully, constructively, and as quickly as we can. So it has been quite a process since the first week of March.”

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