Capital Markets

 
Helping Businesses Succeed: Issuers and investment banks trust O’Melveny & Myers to help them successfully execute a broad spectrum of strategic and capital raising transactions across a range of industries, including financial institutions, healthcare, consumer & retail, technology, media, communications, general industries, real estate and energy & power.

Expert Team: O’Melveny’s capital markets team brings together transactional attorneys who have substantial experience running the most complicated and high-profile deals with former high-ranking SEC officials, who provide specialized advice regarding complex regulatory matters. This combination allows our team to view challenges from all perspectives -- companies, investment banks, and regulators -- so we can navigate deals seamlessly from launch through pricing and closing.

Leading Transactions: O’Melveny’s expertise covers the full spectrum of capital markets transactions, including:

• Initial public offerings, secondary and follow-on stock offerings
• Investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings
• Convertible notes and other equity-linked securities offerings
• Medium-term note programs
• Rule 144A, Regulation S, Section 4(a)(2) / Regulation D, PIPEs and other unregistered offerings
• Liability management transactions, such as tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, amendments and waivers
• Spin-offs, split-offs and other carve-out transactions
• Equity forwards and other complex derivative transactions
• At-the-market programs
• Block trades and bought deals
• Stock exchange listings

Representative Clients and Issuers: O’Melveny serves both underwriters and issuers in complex, high-value securities offerings. Our lawyers have worked on offerings for the following investment banks and public companies:

• AvalonBay Communities Inc.
• Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• BB&T
• Cell Therapeutics
• Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
• Credit Suisse
• DealerTrack Holdings
• Deutsche Bank
• Goldman Sachs
• International Lease Finance Corp.
• JP Morgan
• Lions Gate Entertainment
• The Macerich Company
• Mindray Medical International
• Nissan Motor Acceptance Corporation
• Morgan Stanley
• Piper Jaffray
• Royal Dutch Shell plc
• Textainer Group Holdings Limited
• Time Warner Cable
• ThermoFisher Scientific, Inc. 
• US Bancorp
• Wellpoint, Inc.

Praise for O’Melveny:

• Chambers USA 2012 recognizes O’Melveny’s capital markets practice as one of the leading capital market practices in California.
• Chambers USA 2012 recognizes O’Melveny’s securities regulation practice, noting, “t]he firm … boasts a strong public company advisory practice, with former senior members of the SEC and a Washington, DC base affording the team a superior level of regulatory access.”
• Chambers USA 2012 recommends O’Melveny’s capital markets Co-Chair Michael Schiavone, noting that he “has extensive experience representing underwriters and issuers in all aspects of public and private securities transactions” and that his “broad experience covers most industry sectors, with particularly significant experience in the financial services, consumer/retail, media and healthcare sectors.”
• Chambers USA 2012 recognizes O’Melveny’s capital markets attorney Marty Dunn as a “corporate advisory expert.”
• Chambers Asia 2012 recommends O’Melveny’s capital markets practice, noting the Firm’s "presence is growing quickly in the Singapore and India markets, where the team has been successful in attracting work from government entities. This development adds to an already strong showing in China and Indonesia. Regionally, the group is best known for equity matters, with its Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai offices especially popular with PRC clients looking to list abroad."
• Chambers Asia 2012 specifically recognizes O’Melveny’s capital markets practice in Singapore, explaining, "[t]his group keeps an active presence in the India and Indonesia markets, tackling a mixture of equity and high-yield work. The team also handles a number of renminbi offerings." Chambers Asia 2012 also specifically recognizes our India capital markets practice. "The busy India group at O'Melveny & Myers is best known for its capital markets work, earning some high-profile mandates. The group is particularly noted for its recent role on a number of government disinvestment deals, as well as some large listings by Indian corporates."
• Chambers USA 2011 recognizes the Firm’s US capital markets team. "O'Melveny & Myers is an established presence in the capital markets sector. In addition to traditional capital-raising transactions, the team is recognized for its capacity to manage new product offerings and alternative deal structures."