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Garrett DeVries
Work Department
Partner; Capital Markets
Position
Garrett DeVries has led public equity and debt offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions in a wide range of industries, including energy, retail, restaurants, infrastructure, manufacturing, aviation and finance, for more than 25 years.
He has extensive experience in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, including initial public offerings and Rule 144A offerings. He also regularly advises public companies and investors on securities law compliance and exemptions, SEC reporting issues, securities exchange compliance, shareholder relations and communication and other corporate governance matters. He serves as the co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets practice.
To learn more about Garrett, please review his full profile at:
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/garrett-a-devries.html
Career
Member, Akin’s Retirement Committee.
Education
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, with highest honors, 1991; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1994
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
Akin remains best known for debt capital markets issuances by energy and infrastructure businesses, and it is increasingly active in financial services and asset management. The firm is also noted for liability management, distressed transactions and debt restructuring matters that employ capital markets components. Jesse Brush in New York is one of the firm’s most active capital markets specialists, along with Dallas’s Garrett DeVries and Rosa Testani in New York.
United States > Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
Akin‘s capital markets team has a high degree of focus on high-yield debt, especially for energy and infrastructure sector clients. Financial sponsors and entertainment industry businesses also form part of its client base. Having an issuer-side emphasis, it has continued to advise on a solid pipeline of deals, thanks to the efforts of partners in Houston, Dallas and New York. Garrett DeVries is a recognised high-yield debt expert in Dallas, as is Rosa Testani in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Capital markets: debt offerings United States > Finance
- Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism