Ekaterina (Katya) Roze is a corporate associate in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Capital Markets Practice.

Katya advises clients on a wide range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has represented companies, sponsors and investment banks in:

  • Investment grade and high yield notes offerings
  • Initial public offerings and follow-on offerings
  • Liability management transactions, including tender offers, exchange offers, and consent solicitations
  • Acquisition financings
  • Spin-offs
  • Private placements

In addition, Katya regularly advises companies on Exchange Act reporting and disclosure, corporate governance, debt compliance, and other general corporate matters.

Katya’s experience includes representing:

  • AMC Networks in multiple senior and convertible notes offerings and liability management transactions and a Dutch auction tender offer, as well as disclosure matters*
  • Artisan Partners Asset Management in a synthetic secondary and traditional secondary offering*
  • Beasley Broadcast Group in its at-the-market program
  • Baxter in the proposed spin-off of its kidney care business*
  • Biohaven in multiple equity offerings, including its at-the-market program, and disclosure matters*
  • Cheniere in the financing and expansion of its LNG development in Corpus Christi, Texas, debt offerings and liability management transactions*
  • Chevron in a US$5.5 billion senior notes offering*
  • Enbridge in its debt and equity offerings and disclosure matters, including in connection with its US$14 billion acquisition of three U.S. gas utilities from Dominion Energy*
  • First Republic Bank in multiple equity offerings*
  • Gartner in its debt offerings and the refinancing of its revolving credit facility*
  • Intercontinental Exchange in multiple debt offerings, equity offerings and liability management transactions, as well as disclosure matters, including in connection with its US$13 billion acquisition of Black Knight and US$11 billion acquisition of Ellie Mae*
  • Kimco Realty Corporation in its exchangeable notes offering
  • Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden Sports and Sphere Entertainment in disclosure matters and two secondary offerings of Madison Square Garden Entertainment common stock by Sphere Entertainment*
  • MatlinPatterson in multiple secondary offerings of Flagstar Bancorp common stock*
  • Medallion Bank in its initial public offering*
  • NIKE in its US$6 billion senior notes offering, as well as disclosure and corporate governance matters*
  • Pershing Square Holdings in multiple debt offerings*
  • Pinnacle West in an equity offering, an at-the-market offering and a convertible notes offering*
  • Spirit AeroSystems in multiple secured notes offerings, an exchangeable notes offering, a common stock offering and various liability management transactions, as well as disclosure matters*
  • Stryker in its debt offerings, credit facilities and disclosure and corporate governance matters*
  • United Rentals in its debt offerings and disclosure and corporate governance matters*
  • The underwriters in the initial public offering and several follow-on equity offerings of Cadre Holdings*
  • The underwriters in the initial public offering of Clear Secure*
  • The underwriters in the secondary offering of Mobileye Global Class A common stock*
  • The initial purchasers in Aflac’s pre-capitalized trust securities offering*
  • The initial purchasers in Lincoln National Corporation’s pre-capitalized trust securities offering*
  • The financial adviser and placement agent to Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a publicly traded SPAC, in its business combination with Aurora Innovation and US$1 billion PIPE transaction*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Education

  • JD, New York University School of Law, 2017
  • BA in Government & Economics, Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences, 2014
    magna cum laude