Mr Nicholas Dorsey > Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Offices
WORLDWIDE PLAZA
825 EIGHTH AVENUE
NEW YORK 10019-7475
United States
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Mr Nicholas Dorsey
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Nicholas A. Dorsey is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department. His practice primarily focuses on representing corporate issuers and borrowers, and financial institutions, lenders and other parties, in public and private offerings of securities, loan transactions and other financing transactions. He also represents companies in mergers and acquisitions and regularly advises clients in connection with public disclosure and corporate matters. Clients regularly seek Mr. Dorsey’s counsel for the practical, commercial advice he offers with respect to their most challenging matters.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
(Next Generation Partners)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has a history of headline and high-value transactions, including market-firsts and novel structures. It has an impressive mix of investment grade, high-yield, convertible and exchangeable debt deals. The firm has close connections to a number of blue-chip issuers and top-tier underwriters. It represented the underwriters in 10 notes offerings by JPMorgan totalling $38.9bn and advised the underwriters on the $2.9bn registered senior notes offering of ConocoPhillips. Craig Arcella and Andrew Pitts are big names in the market, including in investment grade and high-yield debt offerings. William Fogg, Stephen Burns and Scott Bennett are also key names, along with Nicholas Dorsey. Michael Mariani is increasingly prominent.
United States > Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
(Next Generation Partners)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP has an outstanding record in big-ticket equity offerings for domestic and international issuers. The firm is rated for both issuer and underwriter engagements and has a wealth of senior talent that operates across the debt and equity offering spheres. It is especially well known for industrial IPOs and has further strength in financial services and insurance offerings. With fewer IPOs in the market, the capital markets team has worked more intensively with M&A colleagues, particularly in relation to corporate separations and spin-offs. It represented the underwriters in two registered offerings of depositary shares representing preferred stock of The PNC Financial Services Group, totalling $2.25bn. William Fogg and Andrew Pitts have outstanding reputations, along with Nicholas Dorsey and Scott Bennett. Michael Mariani and Daniel Haaren are also increasingly prominent. Douglas Dolan has been promoted to partner.
United States > Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
(Next Generation Partners)Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP‘s huge reputation extends worldwide, despite having just two offices in New York and London. It advises on many of the most complex and high-value deals in the capital markets arena, and across the debt, equity and hybrid securities segments. The firm attracts engagements from many European issuers and international underwriters, notably recently advising Nestlé on its $4bn 144A/Reg S notes offering and representing the underwriters in an aggregate of $12.9bn of notes issued by Credit Suisse. Andrew Pitts, co-head of capital markets for North America, had another impressive year in 2022 with a string of headline deals for overseas issuers. Nicholas Dorsey impresses in high-value offerings, while Craig Arcella also comes highly recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Capital markets: debt offerings United States > Finance
- Capital markets: global offerings United States > Finance
- Next Generation Partners United States > Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Next Generation Partners United States > Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Capital markets: equity offerings United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense