The World Is Flat: Operating In Different Capital Markets

Originally published in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Volume 15, No. 10, October 2007

The Editor interviews Robert T. Carey, Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.

Editor: Please tell us about Bracewell &  Giuliani’s International practice.

Carey: I have been at Bracewell & Giuliani since April 2007, having arrived as a lateral partner from Bingham McCutchen. I came to New York with a few other Bingham partners, including Evan Flaschen. Prior to joining Bingham, I was in London for six years where I was heavily involved in international financial transactions. The opportunity of continuing that involvement attracted me to Bracewell.

At the time, Bracewell was in the process of rapidly building its New York office’s capital markets capabilities to offer hedge funds help with all aspects of distressed debt, including M&A, high yield or bank debt, etc. At the time I joined Bracewell, not only was the New York office expanding, the firm also had a mandate from some of