Stephanie is a capital markets lawyer who structures and executes complex securities offerings for major financial institutions and public companies worldwide. She advises public and private companies—both domestic and international—on capital markets transactions, securities offerings, corporate governance, and general corporate matters. Her practice also encompasses regulatory compliance, restructurings, and M&A transactions.
Stephanie has extensive experience structuring and executing public and private securities offerings, including investment-grade debt, structured products linked to a variety of underlying assets, credit-linked securities, and secured-collateral instruments. She represents financial institutions and corporate issuers in the United States and abroad on continuous offering programs, including commercial paper and certificate of deposit programs, medium-term note programs, Regulation S offerings, and Rule 144A placements. Her cross-border practice spans Europe, Asia, and the Americas, including Formosa offerings in Taiwan, Samurai and Uridashi offerings in Japan, and securities programs in London, Luxembourg, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Switzerland.
Beyond capital markets, Stephanie counsels clients on complex commercial contracts, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance. She also advises educational institutions and nonprofit organizations on strategic transactions and governance matters.
While earning her law degree at Wake Forest University School of Law, Stephanie served as executive editor of the Wake Forest Law Review and on the Moot Court Board. As an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina, she was honored with the Academic Excellence Award and the Golden Key Scholastic Art Award.
- Representation of an issuer with the establishment of a $85 billion euro medium-term note program.
- Representation of multiple issuers with the establishment of a structured products program listed on the Luxembourg Euro MTF.
- Representation of multiple issuers with the establishment of a structured products program for French public offers.
- Representation of U.S. guarantor in connection with a subsidiary’s establishment of a structured products program in Germany.
- Representation of issuers with Formosa bond offerings listed on the Taipei Exchange.
- Representation of an issuer with a Japanese primary shelf registration statement and subsequent sales of Samurai bonds pursuant to that registration statement.
- Representation of an issuer with a Japanese secondary shelf registration statement and subsequent Uridashi offerings pursuant to that registration statement.
- Representation of a company with issuances of collateral-secured instruments governed by Swiss law.
- Representation of an issuer in connection with the establishment of a shelf registration statement and subsequent sales of more than $50 billion of securities pursuant to that registration statement.
- Representation of a financial institution with the establishment of a global bank note program and subsequent sales pursuant to that program.
- Representation of an energy company with a $75 billion commercial paper program.
- Representation of a Japanese architectural, civil engineering and general contracting firm with its acquisition of the stock of a domestic engineering firm.
- Representation of a foreign joint venture in its purchase of a domestic nylon manufacturing plant.
- Representation of a major manufacturer with its corporate reorganization.
- Representation of a university with its sale of restricted stock.
- Representation of nonprofit chapter organization with its disaffiliation from a national nonprofit organization.
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- Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, Charlotte, Corporate Law, 2023-2026
- Selected for inclusion into the North Carolina Pro Bono Honor Society, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024, 2025
- Recipient, Outstanding Scholar, Department of Defense, Washington, D.C., 1993-1995
- Recipient, Department of Defense Performance Award, 1995
- Recipient, Defense Spot Awards, 1994
- Honor Graduate, Navy Acquisition Management Training Office
- Honor Graduate, U.S. Army Logistics Management College