Stuart Morrissy > Hogan Lovells US LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hogan Lovells US LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10022
NEW YORK
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Stuart Morrissy
Work Department
Corporate and Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Focusing his practice on securities law with an emphasis on leveraged finance and high yield transactions, Stuart Morrissy offers corporate, private equity, government agency, and restructuring clients a wide array of capital markets financing options.
Stuart regularly represents major corporate issuers and investment banks in a wide range of debt, equity, and equity-linked offerings, with specific skill in high yield bond financings, including in the context of leveraged acquisition financing transactions involving private equity sponsors.
Stuart also advises investment banks, export credit agencies, multilateral agencies, development finance institutions, and corporate and government clients on capital markets programs involving guarantees, buyer credit insurance policies, political risk insurance policies, and other forms of credit enhancement. He has significant experience in developing new funding sources for the purchase of high-cost manufactured goods, such as aircraft, shipping vessels, and satellites.
Stuart is a recognized leader in structuring and executing liability management transactions involving complicated exchange offers, debt and equity tender offers, and consent solicitations. In recent years, he has played a prominent role in drafting and negotiating no-action letters and other interpretive guidance with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff, investors, and lawyers at other prominent law firms that have changed the way debt tender offers are structured and executed today.
Stuart also advises debtors, creditors, and distressed debt investors on U.S. securities law issues arising in the context of both out-of-court restructurings and in-court restructurings under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, including debt-for-debt and debt-for-equity exchange offers, exchange offers with a backstop pre-packaged Chapter 11 plan of reorganization, consent solicitations, and rights offerings.
Languages
English
Education
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2000
B.A., University of Arizona, 1994
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
Hogan Lovells US LLP has close links to a range of large-cap and S&P 500 issuers, which it routinely advises on high-value debt offerings. In recent times it has advised UnitedHealth, Lockheed Martin and Colgate-Palmolive on debt offerings in excess of $1bn. It has an especially strong record in life sciences and healthcare, real estate and TMT. The firm also represents a number of banks and sovereign issuers. Washington DC partner Eve Howard is global head of capital markets and has a fine record in investment grade, high-yield and convertible debt. New York’s Stuart Morrissy provides further senior-level expertise in high-yield debt and liability management.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Transport > Rail and road: litigation and regulation
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- International Trade > CFIUS
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)