"A popular choice for clients seeking assistance with capital markets transactions such as private placements."
The Legal 500 UK 2025
Profile
Jenna Gascoyne represents issuers, including foreign private issuers, and underwriters on the full spectrum of equity capital markets transactions.
She advises clients across a wide range of industries on capital markets transactions and ongoing representation, including:
Initial public offerings (IPOs)
Secondary and follow-on offerings
Private placements
Public company representation, including ongoing Exchange Act reporting
Corporate governance matters
Drawing on her experience practicing in both the United States and Europe, Jenna devises pragmatic solutions for issuers who seek access to the US markets.
She regularly helps clients navigate the complex, cross-border issues that arise for non-US entities in US-registered offerings.
Jenna previously practiced in the firm’s Chicago office. In law school, she was a member of the Texas International Law Journal.
Experience
Jenna’s experience includes advising:
Issuers
Marex Group plc in its:
US$320 million IPO of 15,384,615 ordinary shares on Nasdaq
US$233 million follow-on offering of 9,743,182 ordinary shares listed on Nasdaq
US$419 million follow-on offering of 11,826,372 ordinary shares listed on Nasdaq
Abcam on its US$180 million IPO of 10,287,000 American depositary shares on Nasdaq
atai Life Sciences in its US$258 million IPO of 15 million common shares
Farfetch on its:
US$1 billion IPO of 50,880,311 Class A ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange
Global strategic partnership with Alibaba Group and Richemont to provide luxury brands with enhanced access to the China market and accelerate industry digitization
US$350 million convertible senior notes offering
Fiverr International on its:
US$111 million IPO of 5,263,158 ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange
US$460 million offering of private convertible senior notes
A global hotel search platform in connection with its US$330 million IPO of 30,026,635 American depositary shares representing Class A shares listed on Nasdaq
HeadHunter Group on:
Its US$253 million IPO of American depositary shares on Nasdaq
A shareholder’s US$101.3 million public offering of American depositary shares
IHS Towers on its US$378 million IPO of 18 million ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange
Oatly Group on its US$1.6 billion IPO of 84,376,000 American depositary shares on Nasdaq
Underwriters
The sole placement agent on Nebius Group N.V.’s US$1 billion convertible notes private placement
The sole placement agent on Nebius Group N.V.’s US$700 million strategic equity financing
The sole underwriter and the sole placement agent on Yandex’s US$1 billion public offering and concurrent private placement
The underwriters on the IPO of MYT Netherlands Parent B.V., parent company of the Mytheresa Group and a leading global luxury fashion e-commerce retailer, on the New York Stock Exchange
The underwriters on the US$1.1 billion IPO of Ozon Holdings, a leading Russian e-commerce platform, on Nasdaq
Joint global coordinators Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets, and Berenberg Capital Markets and the joint bookrunners in connection with Jumia’s US$280 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange
JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, as joint bookrunners, in La Quinta Holdings’ US$460 million follow-on offering of common stock by Blackstone
Credit Suisse and another underwriter, as joint bookrunners, in the US$350 million IPO of Performance Food Group on the New York Stock Exchange
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as joint bookrunners, in SeaWorld Entertainment’s US$540 million follow-on offering of common stock by Blackstone
William Blair, Baird, Raymond James, and BMO Capital Markets, as joint bookrunners, in connection with Duluth Holdings’ US$85 million IPO on Nasdaq
Piper Jaffray, William Blair, and Cantor Fitzgerald, as joint bookrunners, in Eagle Pharmaceuticals’ US$57 million IPO on Nasdaq
Qualifications
Bar Qualification
England and Wales (Registered Foreign Lawyer)
Illinois
Education
JD, The University of Texas School of Law, 2013 with honors
BA, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009 with honors
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