Capabilities
Our professionals have considerable experience leading businesses and transactions and advising corporations, financial institutions and individual investors. The team has experience in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East, including:
- International policy and organizations
- Management of multinational businesses and large projects
- Sophisticated cross-border investing, mergers and acquisitions
- Capital Markets financings, including:
- Equity and debt issuances
- Initial public offerings (IPOs), follow-on and secondary offerings, PIPEs, SPACs, reverse mergers and reverse takeovers (RTOs), listings and dual-listings
- Restructurings and reorganizations
- Venture capital and private equity formation, sponsorship and investing
- Trading of financial instruments and natural resources
- Development, construction, financing, sale and leasing of major real estate projects
- Mining, exchanges, trading and banking
- International law and legal requirements of principal nations, including exchange compliance, AML and KYC compliance
Our senior professionals have invested in, and served as chairmen, presidents and CEOs of companies in alternative and traditional energy, banking, beauty products, broadcasting, construction and infrastructure, consumer products, education, entertainment, finance, food products, wealth management, manufacturing, media, publishing, real estate, technology, telecommunications and wealth management.
Many of our professionals previously also were investment bankers and lawyers with global firms, including, among others, Merrill Lynch; Clifford Chance LLP; Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP; and Shearman & Sterling LLP. One our professionals currently leads the substantial real estate practice group for one of Los Angeles’ leading law firms.
Multinational companies our professionals led, or served in other senior board and executive positions, include Gartner Inc., Electronic Data Systems (now DXC Technology), Hewlett-Packard Company, Korn/Ferry International, MGM/UA Communications Co., Metro Traffic Networks, BPGbio Inc., John Paul Mitchell Systems and numerous consumer products, entertainment, finance, media, technology, healthcare, advertising and marketing companies and ventures primarily operating in North America, Europe and Asia.
Other leading companies advised by our professionals for significant business initiatives or transactions include, among many others large and small: AT&T, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Dentsu Advertising, Deutsche Bank, Preferred Bank, Digital Equipment Corporation, Hewlett Packard, Netscape Communications Corporation, Novell Corporation, Westwood One, Resorts World, Reuters, Tata Group and Texas Instruments.
