Overview
Robinson Bradshaw attorneys have extensive experience in handling a full range of securities matters, including capital markets transactions and securities-related litigation for a diverse client base, from publicly traded Fortune 500 companies to startup and growth companies.
We have helped our clients raise billions of dollars in a wide array of public and private securities offerings, including registered investment grade debt offerings, Rule 144A and Regulation S exempt offerings, recapitalizations, PIPE transactions, IPOs and follow-on equity offerings, as well as Rule 506 offerings and other types of private placements.
We regularly advise boards of directors and their audit, compensation, governance and special committees, as well as institutional shareholders and other capital markets participants. We provide securities counsel in significant corporate transactions, such as mergers and acquisitions, tender and exchange offers, and contested transactions.
Public companies routinely call on us to advise them on such matters as disclosure obligations, periodic reporting and proxy matters, insider trading, corporate governance, executive compensation, Securities and Exchange Commission investigations and disciplinary actions, internal investigations, stock exchange regulation, and compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank mandates.
We also regularly assist private entities of all sizes in identifying and navigating securities issues and risks in the context of both capital raising and transactions that implicate securities laws.
Experience
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Represented a Fortune 250 energy company and certain subsidiaries in aggregate registered offerings of over $6 billion of unsecured investment grade debt securities and over $7 billion of secured investment grade debt securities, and in their continuing offering of variable denomination floating rate demand notes.
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Represented a regional community bank in the private placement of approximately $34 million in common and convertible preferred stock and the subsequent resale registration.
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Represented an Australian issuer in Rule 144A and Regulation S sales of $300 million of unsecured high-yield notes and $300 million of senior secured crossing-lien notes guaranteed by subsidiaries in the United States and eight foreign jurisdictions.
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Represented an equity sponsor and selling stockholder in a technology company’s approximately $60 million initial public offering and secondary offerings of approximately $80 million and $75 million.
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Represented a leading independent tobacco leaf merchant in Rule 144A and Regulation S sales of over $650 million of unsecured high-yield notes, over $725 million of secured second-lien high-yield notes, $100 million of contingent convertible subordinated notes, and over $300 million of senior secured crossing-lien notes secured by domestic and foreign assets in over eight countries.
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Represented an industrial manufacturer in Rule 144A and Regulation S sales of $300 million of unsecured high-yield notes.
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Represented various issuers in cash tender offers to acquire convertible debt securities, both in-the-money and out-of-the-money.
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Represented a Fortune 500 company in simultaneous Rule 144A exchange offers of two new series of debt securities for an aggregate of over $1 billion of four series of outstanding debt securities.
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Represented a U.S.-based company in a shareholder-approved exchange offer made by the company to employees in the United States and 12 foreign countries to exchange outstanding stock options for repriced stock options and restricted stock units.
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Represented an entity recently emerged from Chapter 11 reorganization in an exempted rights offering made to its stockholders.
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Represented a Fortune 500 company in registered offerings of $2 billion of investment grade debt securities and $200 million of common stock.
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Represented numerous startup community banks in their exempted initial public offerings.
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Represented issuers in multiple tender offers to acquire, and stand-alone consent solicitations to amend, their publicly traded debt securities.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- Best Law Firms, national Tier 2 for securities regulation, 2025-26; national Tier 2 for securities/capital markets law, 2016-17; national Tier 3 for securities/capital markets law, 2013-15, 2018-25; national Tier 3 for securities regulation, 2017-24; Charlotte Tier 1 for securities/capital markets law, 2011-26; Charlotte Tier 1 for securities regulation, 2013-26; Raleigh Tier 1 for securities/capital markets law, 2019-26
