Lawyers / Professionals

Mr. Pankey's practice includes all aspects of transactional securities work and corporate finance, with an emphasis on private investment vehicles. He handles a number of matters relating to hedge funds, as well as private equity and venture capital funds, including fund formation and the regulatory aspects of these types of funds. He has authored a number of articles on the impact of Dodd-Frank on advisers to private funds. His practice includes the registration of these types of advisers as well as ongoing compliance.

He has been involved in a wide variety of business combination transactions including mergers, acquisitions and sales of businesses, proxy contests, hostile and friendly tender offers, and related regulatory proceedings and litigation. Sales transactions have included structured (or auction type) sales.

His experience has also included corporate finance activity such as initial and subsequent public and private offerings of equity or debt, project finance transactions and joint ventures, and a variety of international corporate and financing transactions. Transaction size includes multibillion-dollar matters.