Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s international reputation sees it act for a large number of foreign issuers, including those from Canada, Europe and Latin America. It represented AerCap Holdings in three equity offerings and two debt offerings in 2023 with a total value of $8.81bn. It also advised Nestlé Holdings on two 144A/Reg S notes offerings, worth $4.5bn. Craig Arcella has a strong reputation for global deals, as do Andrew Pitts and Nicholas Dorsey . Kelly Smercina and Ryan Patrone were promoted to the partnership in January 2023. All are based in New York.

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Key clients

  • AerCap
  • Barrick Gold
  • Element Fleet
  • H&M
  • INEOS
  • Nestlé
  • Various financial institutions

Work highlights

  • Represented AerCap in five offerings totaling $8.81bn.
  • Represented Nestlé in two notes offerings totaling $4.5bn.
  • Represented the underwriters in the $600m notes offering of Canadian National Railway Company.

Lawyers

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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.
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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.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Craig Arcella, William Fogg, Andrew Pitts

Other key lawyers

Nicholas Dorsey