Sandy Kugbei is a corporate associate in the New York office of Latham & Watkins and a member of the Capital Markets Practice.
Mr. Kugbei primarily handles capital markets, general securities, and corporate matters. He has experience advising and representing issuers and investment banking firms on a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including initial public offerings, direct listings, follow-on equity offerings, and investment grade and high-yield debt offerings. Mr. Kugbei’s experience also includes providing general corporate and US securities law advice.
Mr. Kugbei was previously seconded to BofA Securities, where he advised on a broad array of equity and equity-linked capital markets transactions.
Mr. Kugbei currently serves as a member of the firm’s Diversity Leadership Committee and formerly served as local leader of the Black Lawyers Group in New York.
Mr. Kugbei's experience includes advising:
- The underwriters in connection with the US$450 million initial public offering of Compass
- Oscar Health in its US$1.44 billion initial public offering
- GoHealth in its US$913 million initial public offering
- Casper Sleep in its US$100 miilion initial public offering
- Spotify in its US$7.3 billion direct listing
- The underwriters in connection with the US$202 million and US$115 million offerings of common stock of Intellia Therapeutics
- The underwriters in connection with the US$201 million offering of common stock of Spirit Airlines
- The underwriters in connection with the US$89 million and US$45 million offerings of common stock of Vapotherm
- Momenta Pharmaceuticals in its US$259 million offering of common stock
- The underwriters in connection with the US$152 million offering of common stock of EVO Payments
- The underwriters in connection with the US$2 billion senior notes offering of Cummins
- The initial purchasers in connection with the US$400 million convertible senior notes offering of Copa Holdings
- The underwriters in connection with the US$175 million convertible senior notes offering of Spirit Airlines
- Resorts World Las Vegas in its US$1 billion senior notes offering
- The underwriters in connection with the US$345 million senior notes offering of Trident TPI Holdings
- The underwriters in connection with the US$70 million convertible senior notes offering of Inovio Pharmaceuticals