Equity
We counsel clients on all types of equity offerings that address various capital needs, including: common share offerings, preferred stock offerings, private investments in public equity (PIPEs), rights offerings, equity-linked securities offerings and equity derivatives transactions.
Featured Transactions
| China’s Bank of Communications | $8.9 billion |
| Avago Technologies | over $5.8 billion |
| Grupo Financiero Banorte | $780 million |
| Resona Holdings | $6.6 billion |
| AXIS Capital Holdings | over $2.2 billion |
| Shinhan Financial Group | $1 billion |
Other featured transactions include The Carlyle Group and Oak Hill Capital Partners in their separate investments in the common stock of FNB United Corp., a PIPE transaction, which consummated a $310 million recapitalization and completed the acquisition of the Bank of Granite Corporation.
Equity-linked
Simpson Thacher keenly understands the legal intricacies involved in designing successful equity-linked securities. As an acknowledged leader in the field, we routinely represent a range of issuers and underwriters in registered and Rule 144A equity-linked offerings–notes, preferred stock and units, optional and mandatory, convertible and exchangeable. Many of these securities are complex and draw on our skills in a variety of areas. The world’s largest companies and banks count on our Firm’s experience, breadth and cross-practice culture in handling their most complicated offerings.
Featured Transactions
- Initial purchasers in Unisys Corporation’s $190 million convertible senior notes offering and dealers in concurrent capped call transactions
- Underwriters in a $350 million offering of mandatory convertible preferred shares, as part of a financing package for WPX Energy’s acquisition of RKI Exploration & Production
- Initial purchasers in $600 million convertible senior notes by ON Semiconductor Corporation, a company offering a portfolio of energy efficient power and signal management, logic, standard and custom devices
- Underwriters in a $660 million inaugural offering of convertible senior notes by Tesla Motors, which earned the Firm a “highly commended” recognition in the Financial Times’ 2013 U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report
- Genesee & Wyoming in concurrent registered offerings (totaling approximately $475 million) of tangible equity units and common stock
- Joint placement agents in the $1.8 billion private placement of convertible preference shares by Alibaba Group Holding Limited, as part of a financing package that, at the time, was the largest private financing for a private sector Chinese company and the largest ever non-LBO private financing for a technology company globally
- FXCM in its $172.5 million offering of convertible senior notes, the first such offering by an Up-C issuer
- Initial purchasers in a convertible senior subordinated note offering by B2Gold, a British Columbia company
- Global semiconductor company NXP Semiconductors N.V. in an offering of $1.15 billion cash convertible senior notes as well as a related equity derivative transaction