Capital Markets

Our global Capital Markets Practice is dedicated to helping businesses find and secure the cash they need to grow and operate. Working together with attorneys from Latham's industry groups, our capital markets lawyers have helped raise billions of dollars for companies in almost every industry through initial public offerings, secondary stock offerings, convertible debt offerings and straight debt offerings (both high yield and investment grade). We have also worked on private equity financings and mezzanine debt financings in nearly every industry around the world. Our team approach and dedication to our clients, combined with our expertise, creativity and emphasis on strategic objectives, has made Latham among the most active and highly regarded capital markets firms in the world. In fact, Latham advised on $161.3 billion in debt offerings and $53.4 billion in public equity offerings in 2009, including more than $5.4 billion in initial public offerings (IPOs). In the high yield arena, Latham acted as counsel on more than $46.9 billion in high-yield corporate debt issued in 2009. 

Our capital markets group is supported by the full resources of approximately 2,000 attorneys around the globe, lending breadth and depth to our practice, and enabling us to represent clients from Europe to Latin America, from the United States to Asia and the Middle East. The support of our energy regulatory, telecom, broadcast and media, health care, biotechnology, clean tech and other industry attorneys enables us to provide our clients with a comprehensive team of legal advisors for virtually any situation. Our clients include nearly all major investment and commercial banks, as well as companies of all sizes in every industry around the world.

Practice Breadth

In addition to the services listed to the right, our vast capital markets experience includes virtually every financing vehicle, and in particular:

• Rights offerings
• Rule 144A and Regulation S private placements
• Public offerings and private placements of convertible debt securities
• Debt/equity swaps
• Exchange offers
• Interest rate and currency swaps