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Capital Markets

Lawyers in the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group handle capital markets transactions and advise on liability management activities, including exchange offers, tender offers, open market and privately negotiated repurchases of debt and preferred equity, redemptions and consent solicitations.

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Our broad experience and diverse client base enable us to lead capital markets transactions efficiently and effectively on behalf of issuers, underwriters and placement agents, and selling securityholders in complicated securities and capital markets transactions.

We advise clients across sectors, with particular strength in the financial institutions, energy, utility, life sciences and healthcare, consumer goods and manufacturing industries.

How We Help

Key service offerings include transactions involving:

  • initial public offerings (IPOs);
  • universal shelf registrations and takedowns;
  • medium-term notes programs;
  • underwritten follow-on equity offerings;
  • secondary sales;
  • private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions;
  • registered direct offerings (RDOs);
  • confidentially marketed public offerings (CMPOs);
  • “at-the-market” (ATM) facilities;
  • equity lines;
  • Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings;
  • institutional and other private placements;
  • investment-grade debt offerings;
  • high-yield debt offerings;
  • senior, subordinated and junior subordinated debt offerings and other hybrid securities offerings;
  • public and private debt offerings in European and other foreign markets;
  • offerings of green, social and sustainability bonds, as well as the establishment of environmental, social and governance (ESG)-linked issuance frameworks;
  • preferred stock;
  • hybrid securities and structured products; and
  • warrants.

Representative Experience

Issuers

  • Leading financial institution in a $10 billion offering of floating rate and fixed-to-floating rate senior notes;
  • Leading financial institution in a €3.25 billion offering of senior notes listed on the London Stock Exchange;
  • NiSource Inc. (NYSE: NI), one of the largest fully regulated utility companies in the U.S., in its $900 million “At-the-Market” common stock offering program, including a forward sale component;
  • Dominion Energy Inc. (NYSE: D), one of the largest energy and utility companies in the U.S., in its $1.2 billion “at-the-market” common stock offering program, including a forward sale component;
  • Sealed Air Corp. (NYSE: SEE) in its $400 million offering of senior, unsecured notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S and a concurrent five-day cash tender offer for an existing series of senior, unsecured notes;
  • Global leader in specialty materials, in its $400 million offering of senior notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.
  • One of the world’s largest acquirers of nonperforming loans, in connection with a $400 million offering of senior, unsecured notes pursuant to Rule 144A and Regulation S.
  • Biofrontera AG and Biofrontera Inc. (Nasdaq: BFRI) in their respective $12 million and $18 million IPOs of American depositary shares and common stock and multiple follow-on offerings of American depositary shares, common stock and warrants in public offerings and private placements; and
  • CONSOL Energy Inc. on the corporate and securities law aspects of its approximately $5.2 billion merger of equals with Arch Resources Inc. to form Core Natural Resources.

Underwriters/Placement Agents

  • B. Riley Securities and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. as underwriters in a $45 million IPO by biotech company Cognition Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CGTX).
  • Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, as representative of several underwriters, in a $63 million IPO of common stock by Karat Packaging Inc. (Nasdaq: KRT);
  • Titan Partners Group as underwriter and placement agent in connection with public and private offerings of common stock, totaling approximately $200 million, by Quantum Computing Inc. (Nasdaq: QUBT), a photonics and quantum optics technology company;
  • The Benchmark Company LLC as sole book-running manager in a $7 million IPO of common stock by Sagtec Global Limited (Nasdaq: SAGT), a leading provider of customizable software solutions;
  • Newbridge Securities Corp. as sole placement agent in a $12 million private placement of common stock and warrants by Modular Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: MODD), a development stage medical device company; and
  • B. Riley Securities and Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. as underwriters in a $45 million IPO by biotech company Cognition Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: CGTX).

McGuireWoods’ Capital Markets Practice Group has led transactions with an aggregate market value exceeding $90 billion over the past two years, ranking among the top law firms for debt and equity issuances in reputable benchmarking league tables.

  • Among top law firms in capital markets: debt offerings.

    – The Legal 500 U.S.

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    Among top securities and capital markets and M&A law firms for debt and equity issuances based on deal volume and dollar value.

    – London Stock Exchange Group and Bloomberg

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    Earned Debt and Equity-Linked “Deal of the Year” in 2021, and repeatedly recognized in areas of financial and corporate, among others.

    – International Financial Law Review

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