Cecil D Quillen Iii
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Work Department
Banking, capital markets.
Position
Cecil is a London-based US partner who is the leader of the firm’s global US securities and corporate practice. He works on a broad spectrum of securities and finance matters, with a special emphasis on cross-border offerings of high-yield and other covenant-intensive debt securities, as well as emerging markets debt and equity transactions, in particular in Russia/CIS. He is also actively involved in US-related aspects of the firm’s structured finance and banking practices. He regularly speaks at a variety of professional conferences and is a member of the board of directors of the European High Yield Association. Selected transactions where substantial involvement can be disclosed have included: LUKOIL (LUKOIL International Finance BV – US$900m 6.375% Notes due 2014 and US$600m Notes due 2019 (November 2009); Republic of Lithuania – US$1.5bn Notes due 2015 (November 2009); Gazprom (Gaz Capital SA) – €850m 8.125% Loan Participation Notes due 2015 (July 2009), US$1.25bn 8.125% Loan Participation Notes due 2014, and all other Gazprom international capital markets offerings since 2003; Evraz Group SA – consent solicitation in respect of 2013 Notes, 2015 Notes and 2018 Notes (December 2009), US$315m offering of ordinary shares and GDRs and US$650m 7.25% Convertible Bonds due 2014 (July 2009) and US$1.3bn 8.875% Notes due 2013 and US$700m 9.50% Notes due 2018 (April/May 2008); Marks and Spencer plc – US$500m 6.250% Notes due 2017 and US$300m 7.125% Notes due 2037 (December 2007); Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port – US$955m initial public offering of ordinary shares and GDRs (November 2007) and US$300m 7% Loan Participation Notes due 2012 (Novorossiysk Port Capital SA) (May 2007); TNK-BP (TNK-BP Finance SA) – US$600m 7.5% Notes due 2013 and US$1.1bn 7.875% Notes due 2018 (October 2007), US$800m 6.625% Notes due 2017 and US$500m 6.125% Notes due 2012 (March 2007); Gallery Group – US$100m PIK Facility due 2013 (Gallery Out of Home Media Limited) (July 2007) and US$175m 10-1/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2013 (Gallery Capital SA) (May 2006); OAO Severstal – US$1.25bn 9.75% Loan Participation Notes due 2013 (Steel Capital SA) (July 2008) and US $1.063bn initial public offering of ordinary shares and GDRs (November 2006); BCM Ireland Preferred Equity Ltd (eircom Group plc) – €425m floating rate senior PIK notes due 2017 (November 2006) and BCM Ireland Finance Limited (parent company of eircom Group plc) – €350m Floating Rate Notes due 2016 (August 2006).
Career
Law clerk to Hon John D Butzner, Senior Circuit Judge, US Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, Richmond VA, 1988-89; associate Sullivan & Cromwell, New York 1989-95; associate Linklaters, New York 1995-96; partner New York 1996-2000; partner London 2000 to date.
Education
Harvard (1985 AB); University of Virginia (1988 JD).
Practice Areas
Banking (non-contentious); International capital markets; Litigation - banking
