Overview
Ropes & Gray has extensive experience representing corporate issuers, leading private equity firms and major investment banks in all aspects of capital markets financings. For more than a century, we have developed significant experience in all types of initial and follow-on offerings and in private placements. The breadth and depth of our attorneys’ knowledge allow us to effectively manage the capital markets process for our clients. Our practice includes:
- First-time listings and initial public offerings
- Follow-on offerings
- Investment-grade debt offerings
- High yield debt offerings and acquisition financing
- Convertible notes and preferred equity instruments
- Private placements and Rule 144A/Regulation S offerings
- Spin-off, split-off and carve-out transactions
- Liability management transactions, debt exchanges and debt restructurings
- Structured finance transactions such as asset-backed instruments, credit-linked instruments and CLOs
- Securitizations
- Privatizations
- Trading, stabilization and other market activity
Experience
Initial Public Offerings
IPO experience includes:
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Follow-On Offerings
- IQVIA Holdings. Represented IMS Health, a provider of information, services, and technology for the healthcare industry, in several follow-on offerings totaling $3.7 billion.
- Eversource Energy. Represented Eversource Energy, a public utility company, in several follow-on offerings totaling $1.8 billion.
- BRP Inc. Represented Bain Capital and BRP Inc., a boating and powersports company, in several follow-on offerings totaling C$1.6 billion.
- Canada Goose Holdings. Represented Canada Goose Holdings, a Canadian holding company of winter clothing manufacturers, in several follow-on offerings totaling $1.5 billion.
- Novavax Inc. Represented Novavax Inc., a biotechnology company, in several follow-on offerings totaling $1 billion.
- ImmunoGen Inc. Represented ImmunoGen, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on cancer treatments, in its $257 million follow-on offering.
- LifeStance Health Group. Represented LifeStance Health Group and the selling stockholders in its $125 million follow-on offering.
- Foghorn Therapeutics. Represented Foghorn Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing a novel class of oncology medicines, in its $110 million follow-on offering.
- Elanco Animal Health. Represented the lead underwriters in several follow-on offerings totaling $2.9 billion for Elanco Animal Health, an animal health company that innovates, develops, manufactures and markets products for companion and food animals.
- bluebird bio. Represented the lead underwriters in several follow-on offerings totaling $2.1 billion for bluebird bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company.
- Nasdaq. Represented the underwriters in Thoma Bravo, L.P.’s secondary offering of approximately $2.7 billion of stock of Nasdaq, Inc.
- Nasdaq. Represented the underwriters in Borse Dubai Limited’s secondary offering of approximately $1.8 billion of stock of Nasdaq, Inc.
- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals. Represented the underwriters in several follow-on offerings totaling $1.1 billion for Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company pursuing novel therapeutics for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Avantor, Inc. Represented the underwriters in several follow-on offerings totaling $4.3 billion for Avantor, Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of life sciences products and portfolio company of New Mountain Capital.
- Biohaven Ltd. Represented the underwriters in several follow-on offerings totaling $710.6 million for Biohaven, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing therapeutics in key areas including, immunology, neuroscience and oncology.
- TPG Inc. Represented the underwriters in the $646.5 million follow-on offering for TPG Inc.
- Clarivate plc. Represented Baring Private Equity Asia, now EQT Asia, as selling stockholder in the $631 million follow-on offering for Clarivate Plc, an information services and analytics company focused on the technology and life sciences sectors.
- Cushman & Wakefield PLC. Represented the lead underwriters in two follow-on offerings totaling $476 million for Cushman & Wakefield PLC, a provider of real estate services for owners, tenants, and investors.
Debt Offerings
- Eversource Energy. Represented Eversource Energy and its subsidiaries in multiple debt offerings worth an aggregate of over $10 billion.
- IQVIA Holdings. Represented IQVIA, a multinational company providing market intelligence to health information technology and clinical research industries, in several convertible notes offering worth an aggregate of $5.25 billion.
- LPL Financial Holdings. Represented LPL Financial Holdings, a leading U.S. retail investment advisory firm, in several high-yield notes offerings worth an aggregate of $2.5 billion.
- Tronox Holdings plc. Represented Tronox Holdings, a vertically integrated mining and inorganic chemical company, in several high-yield notes offerings worth an aggregate of $1.6 billion.
- Seagate Technology. Represented Seagate Technology Holdings plc, a market leading data storage company, in connection with its issuance of $1.5 billion of exchangeable notes and equity derivative transactions.
- Sarepta Therapeutics. Represented Sarepta Therapeutics, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused the discovery and development of RNA-targeted therapeutics and gene therapies for the treatment of rare diseases, in two convertible notes offerings worth an aggregate of $1.46 billion.
- Surgery Partners. Represented Surgery Partners, a leading healthcare services company, and its subsidiaries in several high-yield senior notes offerings worth an aggregate of $915 million.
- TransMedics Group. Advised TransMedics Group Inc., a medical technology company, in an upsized offering of $460 million convertible senior notes offering.
- Acushnet Holdings. Represented Acushnet Holdings Corp., a global leader in the design, development, manufacture and distribution of performance-driven golf products, and its subsidiary, Acushnet Company, in a $350 million offering of senior notes.
- Dollar General. Represented the lead underwriters in several debt offerings worth an aggregate of $3.8 billion for Dollar General, a variety store company.
- Tampa Electric Company. Represented the lead underwriters in the offering of unsubordinated unsecured notes worth an aggregate of $600 million for Tampa Electric Company.
- Blackstone Private Credit Fund. Represented the underwriters in several offerings of investment-grade notes for Blackstone Private Credit Fund worth an aggregate of over $6.1 billion.
- FS KKR Capital Corp. Represented the underwriters in three investment grade debt offerings for FS KKR Capital Corp worth an aggregate of $2.35 billion.
Securitizations
- Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. Represented Frontier Communications Parent, Inc. in connection with two securitizations financing transactions worth an aggregate of $2.85 billion.
- Planet Fitness. Represented Planet Fitness in connection with two securitization financing transactions worth an aggregate of over $2 billion.
- Zaxby’s. Represented Zaxby’s, the franchisor of quick casual chicken restaurants, in its $285 million whole-business securitization.
- Servpro Industries. Represented Servpro Industries, a Blackstone Group portfolio company and trusted leader in the restoration and reconstruction services industry, in its $260 million whole-business securitization.
- Dunkin’ Brands. Represented Dunkin' Brands, which operates a chain of coffee and baked goods restaurants, and ice cream specialty stores, in structuring and obtaining $1.975 billion of aggregate financing to refinancing its “whole business securitization” and fund a shareholder dividend.
- Domino’s Pizza. Represented Domino’s Pizza, the leading pizza delivery company in the world, in its $1.575 billion securitized debt offering.
- Hooters of America. Represented Tri Artisan Capital Partners and its portfolio company, Hooters of America, a U.S. operator and franchisor of restaurants, in its $315 million whole-business securitization.
- Represented an American international fast food restaurant chain company in connection with the refinancing of its whole business securitization facility.
Ropes & Gray’s IPO Resource Center
An initial public offering is a transformative milestone for any company. Our IPO Guide offers practical resources that can serve as a reference for considerations related to IPO workstreams and life as a public company.