Brian A. Bates

Brian A. Bates
Senior Of Counsel

250 West 55th Street

New York, NY 10019-9601

bbates@mofo.com

44 (20) 79204026

BAR ADMISSIONS

Illinois

New York

EDUCATION

St. Ambrose University, B.A.

Notre Dame Law School, J.D.

Brian represents clients in a wide range of financing transactions, including private debt and equity placements, bank syndications, various bank finance products, high yield offerings, and mezzanine and LBO financings. He has a specialized practice representing non-U.S. entities that want to make cross-border private placements of securities to U.S. and other large financial institutions and pension funds.

He has extensive experience in cross-border private placements and practices almost exclusively on the issuer side of the table.

Brian’s private placement capabilities in issuer-side cross-border placement representation far exceed any other specialist cross-border private placement practice in both issuance value and number of issues. During the course of the last several years, with respect to overall issues and dollar volume, Brian led his group in the representation of issuances of approximately 30 percent of total cross-border USPP debt.

In addition to having worked in private placement finance for well over 30 years, Brian continues to act as the sole issuer-side member of the Transactions Process Management Committee of the American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) where he is a fellow. The ACIC is responsible for the development of new model forms for the cross-border private placement market.

Rankings

Recommended for Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers UK 2022

Recommended: Finance: Debt Capital Markets

Legal 500 UK 2025

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers Global 2019

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers Europe 2019

Recommended for debt capital markets

Chambers UK 2021

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Chambers UK 2019

Highly regarded – Capital Markets: Debt

IFLR1000 2021

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers Europe 2018

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers Global 2018

Recognized as a Foreign Expert based in the UK – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Chambers Global 2018

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt & Equity

Chambers UK 2018

Highly regarded – Capital Markets: Debt

IFLR1000 2018

Ranked Tier 3 – Capital Markets: Debt

Chambers Global 2020