Debt Offerings + 144A Offerings

We are one of the preeminent firms advising on investment grade debt issuances. We also regularly advise issuers and underwriters on Tier 1 offerings, convertible debt offerings, high yield offerings, and 144A offerings. We counsel our clients in connection with medium-term note programs, bank note programs, commercial paper programs, and other continuous offering programs.

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Capital Markets Global Guide 2017: Debt Capital Markets in the United States by Ze’-ev Eiger. © This article was first published in the Capital Markets Global Guide 2017 and is reproduced with the permission of the publisher, Thomson Reuters.
Frequently Asked Questions about European MTN Programs
Frequently Asked Questions about MTN Programs
Frequently Asked Questions about Rule 144A
Frequently Asked Questions about Rule 144A Equity Offerings

Download Considerations for Foreign Banks Financing in the US (2016).

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Capital Markets

PIPE Transactions—Problem. Creativity. Solution.
Hedging PIPEs—No Need to Call the Plumber, Martha. That's a Derivative Embedded in the PIPE
Registered Directs—A Public PIPE
Dribbling It Out—Equity Distribution Programs
Open IPO—Auction Distribution Methodologies
Incapital—Bonds Made Simple
BASICS—What's in a Name
Passave—The Cash-Only Line
An Organic Makeover—Protalix
Call It What You Will—Pre-Marketed or Wall-Crossed: The New Offering of Choice
Time and Time Again—An Innovative Use of an ATM
Specially Purposeful—Helping a Special Purpose Acquisition Company Finance
Lonely at the Top (of the World)—Restructuring and Recapitalizing Icelandic Banks
Showdown in the American West—Main Street vs. Wall Street
Acquisition Well Planned—The Acquisition of Morgan Keegan
Bought and Sold—A Bought Deal
Up, Up and Away—The Up-C IPO
Driven—Mobileye’s Private Equity Financing
Good to be Green—First Corporate Issued Green Bond
Arctic Full Circle—Islandsbanki
Back to the Future—Mobileye IPO
An (Ice)land-mark Transaction—LBI Resolution Proceedings
Stabilizing a House of Cards—Residential Capital
Greenland’s Ports Weren’t Built in a Day—Sikuki Nuuk Habour Financing

Derivatives and Structured Products

Your First Time?—Issuing an Exchange Traded Note
Betting on Oneself—Issuer Equity Derivative Transactions
UBS—Tailor-Made
Monetizations—Cashing In Without Cashing Out
Happy Meals—144A Converts
Deferred Compensation—Immediate Solution
Derivatives on Steroids (Notionally)—Leveraged Total Return Swaps
"Intelligent Design"—Evolutionary Changes in Equity Derivatives
Weakness of Power—Collateralized Hedging Programs for the Energy Market
Hedging Hedge Funds—Financing Hedge Funds
Fast Forward—A Forward Sale
Credit Where Credit is Due—Structured Products with Embedded Credit Default Features
A Matter of "Principal"—Structured Products with Principal Protection
Who's Got the Power?—Energy Commodity Linked Structures and Energy Transactions
Jack of All Trades—Master of Structured Products
The Odd Couple—Structured Products and Life Insurance
Holy BOLI!—Diversified and Principal-Protected
Power to the People—MLPs
Mind the Gap—The Equity Gap
The Dividend Link—Dividend Returns in a Structured Note
Researching an Answer—Research-Based Structured Notes
Making an Impact, Literally—NPX

Structured Finance and Insurance-Linked Products

Lucrative Knock-off—Covered Bonds in the U.S.
Northern Lights—Canadian Covered Bond Issuers
Not Exactly Born in the USA—U.S. Registered Covered Bonds
Catastrophe Bonds and Side Cars—Whose Risk is it Anyway?
Life Settlements and Premium Finance
Life Insurance Securitizations and Structured Products—Where Morality Risk Meets the Capital Markets
Monolines—Ambac, FGIC and PMI
Restarting the Mortgage Markets—Linking Community Lenders to the Capital Markets
The New Gold Standard—BMO Vaulted Gold Bullion Trust

Hybrids

The Elusive D Basket—Hitting the Trifecta
Hybrids: A Case Study—Saving Tax Dollars Makes CENts
Hybrids: A Case Study—Hitting it out of the Park: Bank of America Corporation HITS
Synthetic Equity—It's the Real Thing
Hybrids in Japan—Softbank Corp.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Chambers Asia-Pacific 2018
Asia-Pacific: Capital Markets: Equity
China: Capital Markets: Equity: International Firms
Japan: Banking & Finance: International Firms
Japan: Capital Markets: Domestic
Japan: Capital Markets: International: US Law

Chambers Global 2018
Asia-Pacific: Capital Markets: Equity
China: Capital Markets: Equity: International firms
Japan: Capital Markets: Domestic
Japan: Banking & Finance: International Firms
Japan: Capital Markets: International: US Law
United States: Capital Markets: Debt & Equity
United States: Capital Markets: Derivatives

Chambers UK 2018
Debt Capital Markets

Chambers USA 2018
National: Capital Markets: Derivatives
National: REITS

EQDerivatives Awards 2016
Equity Derivatives Law Firm of the Year

Financial Times: US Innovative Lawyers
Overall winner of the Innovation in Social Responsibility category, 2016
One of four firms ranked “Standout” in the category of New Products and Techniques, 2016
One of four firms ranked “Standout” in the category of Enabling Clients Business, 2015
One of five firms ranked “Standout” in the category of Finance, 2012

GlobalCapital Americas Derivatives Awards
Americas Law Firm of the Year 2015 – 2017
U.S. Law Firm of the Year – Transactions 2018

GlobalCapital Global Derivatives Awards 2016, 2017
Global Law Firm of the Year

GlobalCapital Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Placement Awards 2016
Private Placements Law Firm of the Year

IFLR1000 2018
China: Private Equity – Foreign Firms
Hong Kong: Capital Markets: Equity
Hong Kong: Capital Markets: Debt
Japan: Capital Markets: Equity
Japan: Capital Markets: Equity Foreign Firms
Japan: Capital Markets: Debt
Japan: Capital Markets: Debt Foreign Firms
United States: Capital Markets: Debt
United States: Capital Markets: Equity
United States: Capital Markets: Derivatives
United States: Capital Markets: Structured Finance and Securitisation
United Kingdom: Capital Markets: Debt
United Kingdom: Capital Markets: Derivatives

IFLR Americas Awards
Structured Finance and Securitisation Deal of the Year, 2013
Structured Finance and Securitisation Team of the Year, 2015

Legal 500 Asia-Pacific 2018
Japan: Capital markets: International firms and joint ventures
Hong Kong: Capital markets (equity)

Legal 500 UK 2017
Debt Capital Markets
Derivatives and Structured Products

Legal 500 US 2017
National: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers
National: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
National: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Issuers
National: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
National: Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Issuers
National: Capital Markets: Global Offerings: Advice to Underwriters
National: Structured Finance

mtn-i Americas Awards 2013
Legal Leader

Operational Risk & Regulation Awards 2013
Law Firm of the Year

StructuredRetailProducts.com 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 (shortlist)
Best Law Firm in the Americas

Structured Products magazine 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016
Law Firm of the Year, Americas

Thomson Reuters Accelus Compliance Awards 2012, 2014
One of Five Firms Shortlisted for Best Regulatory Law Firm of the Year

U.S. News – Best Lawyers^® Best Law Firms 2018
National: Derivatives and Futures Law (Tier 1)
National: Securities/Capital Markets Law (Tier 1)
National: Securitization and Structured Finance Law (Tier 1)
National: Securities Regulation (Tier 1)
National: Banking and Finance Law (Tier 1)

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(Chambers US 2016)

"The ‘very responsive and creative’ team at Morrison & Foerster LLP has an excellent track record for handling investment-grade debt work for both issuer and underwriter clients."
(Legal 500 US 2013)

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