Finance
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP‘s New York-based capital markets team continues to advise issuers and underwriters on investment-grade transactions, with notable work in the financial services, healthcare, and TMT sectors. Co-head Daniel Bursky’s debt offerings expertise includes advising issuers on convertible securities and private placements, and investment banks on acquisition financings. Fellow co-head Andrew Barkan is involved in domestic debt offerings, including public offerings and private placements. Joshua Wechsler also co-heads the practice and is experienced in a variety of sectors, particularly healthcare, as well as tech, financial services and TMT. Mark Hayek, Lee Barnum and Monica Thurmond are also active in this space.
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Corporate, capital markets, finance, private acquisitions and private equity
Position
Mr. Bursky is head of the Firm's Capital Markets Practice and a member of the Finance Practice.
Mr. Bursky has one of the strongest securities and financing practices in the market, with experience advising the full spectrum of participants across an array of industries. He represents both issuers and underwriters in a variety of capital markets transactions, including equity offerings, convertible securities, high-yield debt and private placements. He advises investment banks, private equity firms and corporate borrowers with respect to acquisition financings, including bank, mezzanine and high-yield debt. He also regularly represents companies on their SEC disclosures and corporate governance matters.
Mr. Bursky represents issuers such as Catalent, Merck, T-Mobile and Under Armour in billions of dollars of debt and equity offerings. He has advised either the issuers or the underwriters on the IPOs and follow-on offerings of such companies as Athene, Emerald Expositions, JELD-WEN and Shake Shack. He also acts as designated underwriters' counsel for Athene, Procter & Gamble, Quest Diagnostics, USAA Capital Corporation and Warrior Met Coal, among many others.
Mr. Bursky advises on the credit facilities for over 20 corporate borrowers, including Carestream, Catalent, Harsco, T-Mobile, Under Armour and WestJet, among others. He also represents many well-known financial institutions as agent banks, including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, Jefferies and Royal Bank of Canada, for such borrowers as Alliance Laundry, Ascend Performance Materials, Athene, Authentic Brands, Clarivate Analytics, MDVIP, SIG Combibloc, SMG, Steinway Musical Instruments and Zest Dental Solutions.
Additionally, Mr. Bursky has extensive experience representing private equity sponsors and funds, including Onex, Cranemere, OMERS, Wendel and Goldman Sachs, and their portfolio companies, in their most sophisticated and complex matters.
Career
Mr. Bursky joined Fried Frank in 1993 and became a partner in 2001.
He has also served as an adjunct professor at Cardozo Law School, teaching a course in private equity.
Memberships
Mr. Bursky is a member of the International Bar Association and a board member of the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center, a social service agency in the settlement house tradition.
Education
Mr. Bursky received his JD from Columbia Law School in 1993, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his BA from Yale University in 1990.
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Testimonials
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‘Deep knowledge of best practices; thorough and efficient; effective advocates for the borrower; always looking to improve our position; business-savvy; creative; easy to work with.’
‘Daniel Bursky, Josh Coleman – highly sophisticated, business savvy, creative, thoughtful, efficient and effective with a deep knowledge of market practices who always try to better their client's position without being confrontational.’
Key clients
- T-Mobile US, Inc.
- Humana, Inc.
Work highlights
Advised Humana on the upsize of its $5 billion commercial paper program.