Mr Craig Hilts > WilmerHale > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
WilmerHale Offices
60 STATE STREET
BOSTON, MA 02109
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Mr Craig Hilts
Work Department
Capital Markets; Corporate Governance and Disclosure; Debt Finance; Emerging Company and Venture Capital; Life Sciences; Mergers and Acquisitions; Technology
Position
Partner
Career
Craig Hilts is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group. His practice focuses on advising domestic and foreign issuers and investment banks in capital markets transactions, corporate governance and public company reporting matters, with a particular emphasis on the life sciences and technology industries.
Mr. Hilts has successfully represented clients in a wide range of complex capital markets transactions, including numerous initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, PIPEs, at-the-market offerings senior debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and liability management transaction.
Mr. Hilts regularly advises life companies on financing transactions, SEC reporting requirements, complex disclosure issues, stock exchange requirements and corporate governance issues. He also frequently represents investment banks in initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings in the life sciences industry.
Mr. Hilts served on the Business Transactions section of the Boston Bar Association from 2018–2020.
For several years, Mr. Hilts was a member of the Young Executive Board of a nonprofit organization dedicated to motivating young students in disadvantaged neighborhoods to become readers by bringing authors to participate in in-class discussions.
Mr. Hilts completed the 2013 New York Marathon.
Memberships
- Massachusetts
- New York
Education
- JD, Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law, 2008
- BA, Economics and Political Science, Wake Forest University, 2003
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
WilmerHale has a steady flow of DCM engagements from technology, life sciences, financial services and other companies. The firm is active in exchangeable offers, convertible debt and private placements, and has landed a number of bulge-bracket senior note offerings engagements. Molly Fox and Craig Hilts are key partners in Boston, along with Justin Ochs in Washington DC.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Antitrust > Cartel
- International trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Industry focus > Education
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Industry focus > Native American law
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government contracts
- Government > Government relations
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense