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DLA Piper LLP (US) Offices
1251 6TH AVE,
NEW YORK, NY 10020-1104
NEW YORK
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Christopher Paci
Work Department
Corporate; Capital Markets; Healthcare; Financial Services
Position
Partner; Chair, Capital Markets Practice Group
Career
Chris Paci has substantial experience representing investment banks and US and foreign issuers in a broad range of capital markets transactions. Mr. Paci also has extensive experience in the corporate aspects of financial restructurings, including by acting as counsel to US and non-US companies in chapter 11 reorganizations and related ancillary proceedings. In addition, he has significant experience in merger and acquisition transactions.
These include registered offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked, high-yield debt and investment-grade debt securities; and exchange offers, tender offers and consent solicitations. Chris also has significant experience in merger and acquisition transactions and debt restructurings.
Chris has worked with companies in many industries, including aerospace/defense, consumer/retail, healthcare/life sciences, manufacturing, mining and natural resources, technology and telecommunications, often in connection with leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations. The transactions in which he has been engaged have involved issuers in Europe, Latin America and Asia, as well as in the United States and Canada.
Chris regularly advises company clients regarding SEC reporting and disclosure requirements and corporate governance matters.
Languages
English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School; Fulbright Fellow, Universities of Rome and Perugia; B.A., Yale University
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
DLA Piper LLP (US)
has a large US capital markets team spread across its multiple offices, best known for mid-cap deals. The large team has enabled it to develop an impressively wide-ranging list of engagements from issuers and underwriters. The department has landed a series of headline SPAC offering engagements, thanks to the efforts of Jeffrey Selman in San Francisco. Head of the capital markets group Christopher Paci has also played a pivotal role in developing the firm’s presence in Latin America transactions.
Latin America: International firms > Capital markets
DLA Piper LLP (US) has a large and established team spread across its US and Latin America offices. The firm is especially active in debt offerings, including high-yield debt, private placements and project and infrastructure bonds. The group is also noted for structured financings and securitisation, along with debt restructurings – particularly sub-sovereign debt restructurings in Argentina. New York partner Christopher Paci is a cornerstone of the practice with Marcelo Etchebarne having a prominent role in Buenos Aires on sub-sovereign debt mandates. Roberto Vianna do R. Barros, at associate Brazilian firm Campos Mello Advogados in cooperation with DLA Piper, has landed a number of major Brazil capital markets engagements.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > Financial products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Fintech
- Tax > International tax
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance