Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP has a core team of senior partners that have an excellent record in equity and debt offerings, acting for a range of corporate issuers, private equity houses and underwriters. It has close relationships to a number of repeat issuers and covers a wide range of industries, frequently representing clients in IPOs, follow-on offerings and secondary equity offerings. Daniel Bursky  leads the capital markets team and has a strong reputation for headline deals; he is also a member of the firm’s finance practice. Andrew Barkan , Mark Hayek and Joshua Wechsler  are also key partners. All are based in New York.

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Key clients

  • Wells Fargo Securities
  • BofA Securities
  • Morgan Stanley
  • RBC Capital Markets
  • Goldman Sachs
  • UBS Securities
  • JP Morgan
  • Citigroup Global Markets
  • Broadstone Net Lease
  • Onex Corporation
  • Sterling Check Corporation
  • Goldman Sachs BDC

Work highlights

  • Advised the underwriters on Athene Holding’s $500m offering of 7.750% Fixed-Rate Reset Perpetual Non-Cumulative Preference Shares, Series E.
  • Acted as counsel to a selling stockholder affiliated with Permira in a secondary offering of an aggregate of 16,100,000 shares of LegalZoom.com, Inc’s common stock,
  • Acted as counsel to the joint book-running managers, in connection with a $182.7m secondary offering of 8,700,000 shares of Class A common stock by certain selling stockholders associated with Onex Partners Manager LP and Vista Equity Partners, as well as PowerSchool’s CEO.

Lawyers

Leading partners
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Daniel Bursky

Other key lawyers

Andrew Barkan, Mark Hayek, Joshua Wechsler