Greenberg Traurig, LLP assists clients with a range of debt capital markets and US securities-related transactions, including Rule 144A offerings, private placements, liability management, green and sustainability-linked bonds, and stand-alone debt issuances. Team head Dorothee Fischer-Appelt brings over 25 years of experience in US and English law debt capital markets; while the ‘strong new addition to the team’, Fritz Ernemann, handles public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, with particular focus on issuances of high yield debt securities.
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'Fritz Ernemann is a strong new addition to the team and add credibility to the offering.'
'There are few practitioners who have worked on the number and breadth of transactions as Fritz Ernemann. His 14 years of intense experience in the market makes him an expert and more qualified than many of his peers who has not had the same market exposure over the years.'
Key clients
- JPMorgan
- Morgan Stanley
- HSBC Securities
- UBS Investment Bank
Work highlights
Acted for Citigroup, Credit Agricole CIB, JPMorgan, Korea Development Bank (KDB), Mizuho, and Standard Chartered Bank as Joint Lead Managers on the Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $1 billion 5% Guaranteed Senior Unsecured Note of Kraton Corporation, guaranteed by the Korea Development Bank, listed on the Singapore Exchange.
Advising Selina Hospitality PLC on a complex liability management transaction involving a group of U.S. bondholders, relating to an outstanding aggregate principal amount of $147 million of convertible high yield bonds and exchange for new high yield senior secured Rule 144A notes and negotiation of high yield covenant package; also advised Selina on a new $40 million private convertible bond issuance to a new strategic investor governed by English law.
Practice head
Dorothee Fischer-Appelt
Other key lawyers
Fritz Ernemann; Charlotte Osborne