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Garrett DeVries
Work Department
Partner; Capital Markets
Position
Garrett DeVries has led public equity and debt offerings, private placements, and mergers and acquisitions in a wide range of industries, including energy, retail, restaurants, infrastructure, manufacturing, aviation and finance, for more than 25 years.
He has extensive experience in public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities, including initial public offerings and Rule 144A offerings. He also regularly advises public companies and investors on securities law compliance and exemptions, SEC reporting issues, securities exchange compliance, shareholder relations and communication and other corporate governance matters. He serves as the co-head of the firm’s Capital Markets practice.
To learn more about Garrett, please review his full profile at:
https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/garrett-a-devries.html
Career
Member, Akin’s Retirement Committee.
Education
B.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, with highest honors, 1991; J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 1994
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
Akin has an established record in high-yield debt offerings, most notably in energy and infrastructure, but also in other areas such as the entertainment sector. Much of its high-yield debt talent sits in Dallas, Houston and New York. Its client base features a range of energy companies, financial sponsors and entertainment businesses; it recently advised FTAI Infrastructure on a $450m Rule 144A private offering of senior secured notes. Garrett DeVries and Alan Laves are experienced high-yield debt experts in Dallas, along with Rosa Testani in New York. Houston partner Christopher Centrich is noted for high-yield debt offerings in the oil and gas sector.
United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
Akin is best known for energy company debt issuances, through its offices in Houston and Dallas. The firm is also recognised for its expertise in restructuring-related debt offerings. It is primary issuer focused and is broadening its practice through the New York office, where Rosa Testani has a strong profile in high-yield debt offerings, and is further recognized for liability management transactions, corporate restructurings and issuances as companies emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Houston’s John Goodgame and Dallas partner Garrett DeVries are noted for energy sector offerings, including those by master limited partnerships (MLPs). Christine LaFollette has retired from the partnership.
Lawyer Rankings
- Capital markets: debt offerings United States > Finance
- Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization