Experience
Corporate Trust
Represented the indenture trustee in recent transactions in connection with:
- $30,000,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a global biopharmaceutical company
- $19,750,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a multinational technology company
- $5,000,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a leading producer of oil and natural gas
- $3,650,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a global animal health company
- $3,500,000,000 Senior Notes/Tangible Equity Units issued by an international leader in the food industry
- $2,000,000,000 Global Bond offering issued by the Republic of Ecuador
- $1,250,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a leading private telecommunications and technology company
- $800,000,000 Senior Secured Notes issued by a global investment banking firm
- $600,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a global oil and gas exploration company
- $500,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a leading software maker
- $402,500,000 Convertible Senior Notes issued by a global leader in secure electronic financial and payment transactions
- $280,000,000 First Mortgage Bonds issued by an electrical utility in the Pacific Northwest
- $250,000,000 Convertible Notes issued by a specialty finance company
- $250,000,000 Convertible Notes issued by a leading global aero communications service provider
- $250,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes issued by a domestic car rental company
- $175,000,000 Convertible Senior Notes issued by a leading provider of motion tracking software
- $172,500,000 Convertible Senior Notes issued by a leader in mobile Internet services and mobile security
Structured Finance
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with an open-ended indenture for a solar company involving a novel structure that allowed for the issuance of Solar Bonds through a traditional offering process or directly to investors through the company’s own proprietary platform.
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with $1,080,000,000 Senior Notes issued by an offshore special purpose vehicle.
Project Finance
- Represented the indenture trustee and collateral agent in connection with $1,000,000,000 Senior Secured Notes issued to finance the construction of photovoltaic projects.
- Represented the administrative agent and collateral agent in connection with $125,000,000 First and Second Lien Financing for a casino operator's joint venture.
International Corporate Trust
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with $11,000,000,000 Global Notes issued by a multinational energy corporation.
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with $2,000,000,000 Senior Notes issued by a multinational private telecommunications company.
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with $1,500,000,000 Bonds issued by a South American sovereign.
- Represented the indenture trustee in connection with C$100,000,000 Extendible Convertible Unsecured Subordinated Debentures issued by a power generation and infrastructure company.
Custody
- Represented a global custody bank, as securities intermediary, under a series of tri-party control agreements, entered into by a corporation and multiple broker-dealers in connection with swap agreements, where collateral posted under each swap agreement was held in custody by the Securities Intermediary.
- Represented a global custody bank, as securities intermediary and custodian, under multiple tri-party control agreements and associated single party custody agreements, entered into by a broker-dealer and a family of related special purpose vehicles, where collateral was transferred between the custody accounts and the control accounts in accordance with the underlying financing arrangement.
- Represented a global custody bank, as securities intermediary, under a tri-party control agreement, entered into by a broker-dealer and a hedge fund in connection with a repurchase agreement, where collateral posted under the repurchase agreement was held in custody by the securities intermediary.
- Represented a global custody bank, as custodian, under global and domestic custody agreements, entered into with broker-dealers and hedge funds, where cash and both domestic and global securities were held in physical and book-entry form.
- Represented a global custody bank, as trustee, under a reinsurance trust agreement, entered into by an insurer and a reinsurer, where cash and complex securities were held for reinsurance credit, valued according to margin requirements, and collateral was released or accounts