Our Capital Markets practice is comprised of leading corporate and securities lawyers, advising issuers, underwriters and agents in domestic and international, private and public financings. We advise on a wide variety of equity, equity-linked and debt offerings. We have over 400 corporate and securities lawyers around the globe, with 140 lawyers working on capital markets transactions across 15 offices.
“Maintaining a balance between issuer and underwriter-side work, Mayer Brown is best known for its firepower in financial services-related offerings." The Legal 500 US Or, put simply: we know banks. Our capital markets lawyers all have significant experience with financings for financial institutions, which require a special constellation of attributes. Assisting financial institutions in their capital raising requires bank regulatory expertise, tax sophistication, ERISA expertise, and, of course, securities and capital markets capabilities and market context. We understand short-term funding, from CP and ABCP to bank products, like CD programs; benchmark funding in the US, Euro and other markets; securitization, and CRT; and structured products. Few firms can say that.
The Legal 500 says, “The firm remains at the forefront of representing financial institutions in their debt offerings.” We are especially known for our work advising on investment grade debt issuances and continuous offering programs, including medium-term note (MTN) programs, bank note programs, 144A offering programs, structured products programs, CD programs, CP and ABCP programs, covered bonds, and other similar programs.
We have a broad-based equity capital markets practice spanning the financing continuum. We advise on exempt offerings and the full gamut of SEC-registered offerings. The volume of transactions we handle provides us with essential market context, which benefits our clients. We are always current on key developments and familiar with expectations of investment banks.