- Advising public companies and their boards of directors on strategic decisions, risk oversight, governance, and SEC disclosure related to COVID-19.
- Underwriters' counsel in two offerings of a total of $5 billion of debt securities by the world's best-known beverage company.
- Dealer-managers’ counsel in two debt tender offers totaling $5 billion by the world’s best-known beverage company.
- Counsel to the world’s largest beauty supply store in a $300 million secondary equity offering.
- Counsel to a technology company for a $50 million self-tender offer of common stock.
- Counsel to one of America’s largest full-service restaurant companies in proxy contest against dissident hedge funds.
- Counsel to a technology company in the successful defense of a hostile takeover.
- Counsel to the director nominees of an acquirer in the successful hostile acquisition of a U.S. pharmaceutical company.
- U.S. counsel to for a cross-border hostile tender offer of one of the UK’s largest restaurant companies.
- Counsel to a worldwide leader in automotive safety in connection with corporate, securities and mergers and acquisitions.
- Counsel to the world’s largest beauty supply store in a $750 million 144A senior notes offering.
- Counsel to investors in numerous private placement investments in public companies.
- Counsel to a number of large investment firms and financial services entities with respect to beneficial ownership reporting and proxy issues.
- Counsel to the issuer in an equity offering of over $200 million.
- Counsel to the issuer in a hybrid debt offering of over $160 million.
- Counsel to a poultry company responding to a hostile $1.1 billion tender-offer and subsequent friendly tender-offer/merger.
- Counsel to a technology company in its buyback of common stock and related settlement of a proxy contest by a significant shareholder of the company.
- Counsel to a super-regional bank in connection with its merger of equals in a transaction valued at $6 billion.
- Counsel to the seller in a disposition of an employee staffing company in a transaction valued at $80 million.
- Counsel to institutional investors, hedge funds and other financial entities in complying with beneficial ownership reporting requirements.
- Counsel to a publicly traded telecommunications firm in a $2.6 billion leveraged buyout by an affiliate of the Carlyle Group.
- Counsel to a financial advisor in $9.2 billion spin-off and merger of telecommunication companies.
- Corporate and securities counsel to one of the world’s largest retailers of home improvement and building products.
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- Phone: 202.239.3463
- Email: dave.brown@alston.com
Clients in a variety of industries come to Dave to guide them through important decisions, issues and events with their companies, including SEC regulatory and disclosure issues, M&A transactions, governance and proxy contests.