Bhanu Mathur

• Counsel to a large automotive safety company in the spinoff of its electronics business into a new public company traded in two countries.
• Counsel to a public restaurant chain in its sale to a private equity group for approximately $375 million. 
• Counsel to a payments technology company in its public offering of $1 billion senior notes. 
• Counsel to an automotive technology company in its concurrent registered public offerings of $420 million common stock and $180 million convertible notes. 
• Counsel to a public software collaboration service company in the acquisition of an online team collaboration and project management solution for businesses. 
• Counsel to a global airline in its investment in a regional U.S. private and public carrier. 
• Seconded to a global hospitality company and advised on general corporate and operational matters as well as the company’s spinoffs of two of its business segments. 
• Assisting public issuers with the preparation of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K. 
• Advising investment managers, institutional investors, and other investors with respect to beneficial ownership reporting requirements. 
• Advising nonprofit corporations on regulatory and corporate governance issues. 
• Pro bono counsel to immigrants from Zambia, El Salvador, Egypt, and Honduras seeking asylum or relief under the United Nations Convention Against Torture.
• Represented a publicly-traded industry-leading mortgage REIT in its acquisition of a publicly-traded specialty finance REIT that focuses primarily on investments in residential mortgage-backed securities.

Bhanu Mathur is a senior associate in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group. She focuses her practice on the representation of public and private companies in a variety of industries including automotive, hospitality, and payments in SEC reporting and compliance, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raising transactions.

Bhanu received her J.D., with honors, from The George Washington University Law School in 2013, where she was a member of The George Washington International Law Review. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Boston University in 2010. 

Bhanu is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and Colorado. 

Bar Admissions

• Colorado
• District of Columbia

Education

• The George Washington University (J.D., 2013)
• Boston University (B.A., 2010)

Memberships