Capital markets: debt offerings

Craig Arcella

Craig F. Arcella is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Co-Head of the Finance Practice. Mr. Arcella represents financial institutions and corporate clients in a wide variety of matters, including investment grade, high‑yield and convertible bond offerings; liability management transactions; initial public offerings and other equity financings; syndicated loan and other leveraged finance transactions; and mergers and acquisitions. He also regularly advises companies with respect to governance, public disclosure and other corporate matters.

Valerie Ford Jacob

Partner

Marc Jaffe

Corporate Partner

Arthur Robinson

Partner representing clients in initial public offerings, high yield issuances, restructurings and corporate governance issues. Transactions include IPOs of Sotera Health, CommScope, Duck Creek, Paycor, ADT, U.S. Xpress, Anywhere Real Estate, InnovAge, Bioventus, Nuvalent, Press Ganey and Frequency Therapeutics; offerings to finance the acquisitions of NBC Universal, Cablevision, Burger King and Anywhere Real Estate; financing transactions in Olin’s acquisition of Dow Chemical’s Chlor-Alkali business; Reverse Morris Trust transaction to spin-off and combine WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc.; offerings for Carnival, U.S. Steel, Sprint, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Del Monte, Zai Labs, Bombardier Recreation, Apache, Northrop Grumman, Venator, Gartner, Wolverine, Block (formerly Square), Cimpress and PTC; and offerings to finance Mirant Corporation's and LatAm Airlines’ emergences from bankruptcy.

Abigail Simon

Associate

Nicholas Dorsey

Nicholas A. Dorsey is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice primarily focuses on representing corporate issuers and borrowers, and financial institutions, lenders and other parties, in public and private offerings of securities, loan transactions and other financing transactions. He also represents companies in mergers and acquisitions and regularly advises clients in connection with public disclosure and corporate matters. Clients regularly seek Mr. Dorsey’s counsel for the practical, commercial advice he offers with respect to their most challenging matters.

Merritt Johnson

Partner

Pamela Marcogliese

Partner

Andrew Fabens

Andrew L. Fabens is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He serves as co-partner in charge of the New York office, and is co-chair of Gibson Dunn’s Capital Markets Practice Group and is a member of Gibson Dunn’s Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group. Andrew represents issuers and underwriters in public and private corporate finance transactions, in both U.S. and international markets. His experience encompasses IPOs, follow-on offerings, investment grade, high-yield and convertible debt offerings and offerings of preferred, hybrid and derivative securities. Andrew regularly advises companies and investment banks on corporate and securities law issues, including M&A financing and other capital planning, liability management, spin-offs, disclosure and reporting under U.S. securities laws, governance issues and stock exchange listings. His clients span emerging growth to multinationals; industries include tech, healthcare, consumer retail and hospitality.

Eve N. Howard

Global Head of Capital Markets 

Sophia Hudson

Sophia Hudson is a capital markets partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Sophia advises clients on SEC disclosure and compliance, governance and general corporate law matters, as well as the full range of capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings, public and private high-yield, investment-grade and convertible debt offerings and private placements of equity and convertible securities. She has extensive experience with foreign issuers and cross-border transactions. In 2023, Sophia was selected as one of Law360’s capital markets MVPs—one of the industry’s most coveted awards, bestowed upon leading lawyers for their involvement in record-breaking deals and complex global matters—for her work spearheading transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars for major companies such as Bed Bath & Beyond, Norwegian Cruise Line and WeWork, among numerous others. Her experience ranges across a variety of industries, including consumer goods, financials, industrials, life sciences, mining, retail, specialty pharmaceuticals and technology. She has also represented all the major U.S. investment banks.

Matthew Kaplan

Andrew Pitts

Andrew J. Pitts is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Head of the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice for North America. He has a significant corporate finance practice and advises clients on a broad range of corporate issues. Mr. Pitts is widely regarded in the legal community as exceptionally responsive and pragmatic with a wide range of experience addressing clients’ most complex legal issues.