Robyn L. Downing

• Represented Global Payments on its $2 billion offering of convertible senior notes.
• Advising public companies and their boards of directors on strategic decisions, risk oversight, governance, and SEC disclosures.
• Advising companies on securities offerings of equity and debt, including numerous initial public offerings.
• Counsel to one of the U.S.’s largest small-loan consumer finance companies in a $300 million 144A senior notes offering.
• Counsel to multiple biopharmaceutical clients in various stages of development.
• Counsel to multiple special purpose acquisition companies, including representation throughout the de-SPAC process.
• Counsel to a U.S. subsidiary of a global renewable energy project owner and operator in the financing and development of several solar energy projects across the U.S.
• Represented a biopharmaceutical startup in a reverse merger in conjunction with private placement of common stock.
• Assisted a Netherlands-based floricultural company with its acquisition of a U.S.-based horticultural company.
• Counsel to a development-stage biotech company in its two-step sale transaction to a global generic pharmaceutical company.

Robyn Downing advises public and private companies on corporate governance matters, public offerings, capital structuring, and securities regulation and compliance. Robyn counsels institutional clients in domestic and cross-border M&A and corporate finance transactions across a wide range of industries. She also advises investment banks and financial advisors in M&A transactions.

Before joining the firm, Robyn interned with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division, where she gained valuable insight into how the agency conducts investigations. In 2021, Robyn was selected as an inaugural winner of the Rising Star award at Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law.

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Pace University (J.D., 2017)
• Marist College (B.S., 2014)

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