William V. Fogg is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and serves as Co-Head of the Firm’s Financing Practice. His practice focuses on representing companies and major investment banks in public and private capital markets transactions, as well as on corporate governance, general corporate and disclosure matters. The Financial Times featured Mr. Fogg’s work on behalf of Cincinnati Bell in converting its data center business into a “first-of-its-kind” REIT and its subsequent carve-out IPO of CyrusOne as one of the most innovative deals of the year in its U.S. Innovative Lawyers 2013 special report.
North America - United States • Finance
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s large capital markets team and its experienced bench of partners brings it a steady stream of big-ticket engagements, both for issuers and underwriters. Along with its outstanding record in high-yield and investment grade debt transactions, its domestic and global reputation consistently puts it in the frame for the most sought after equity offerings. Despite dampened deal activity in 2o23, it advised on Kenvue’s $4.37bn IPO as part of its $41bn spin-off from Johnson & Johnson. Michael Mariani has carved out a burgeoning reputation. Daniel Haaren is another emerging name, along with Nicholas Dorsey . William Fogg, Andrew Pitts and Scott Bennett are the senior names in the team. All are based in New York.
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- 'The bench is very deep and has the expertise on everything we have needed.'
- 'Very good, practical judgment. Disclosure is often more art than science, and Cravath's advice strikes just the right balance between being appropriately protective and commercially actionable.'
Key clients
- AerCap
- H&M
- INEOS
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kenvue
- Monogram Health
- US Foods
- White Mountains
- Various financial institutions
Work highlights
- Represented Kenvue and Johnson & Johnson in connection with Kenvue’s $4.37bn, the largest to result from a corporate carve out in over two decades.
- Represented AerCap in three secondary offerings of ordinary shares by the selling shareholder, a wholly owned subsidiary of General Electric, totalling $6.06bn.
- Represented the underwriters in the $2.03bn registered secondary common stock offering of agilon health.
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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.
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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.
Michael E. Mariani is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice focuses on representing companies and major investment banks in a variety of public and private financing transactions, including initial public offerings, investment grade, high‑yield and convertible debt offerings, and acquisition financing transactions. Mr. Mariani also advises clients on public disclosure and corporate governance matters, as well as mergers and acquisitions.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Craig Arcella, William Fogg, Andrew Pitts