Finance
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP’s capital markets team in New York remains a leader in the global debt offerings space and offers expertise spanning investment-grade, high-yield, and convertible notes offerings, among other kinds. The team also has capabilities on the equity side, recently handling common stock and secondary share offerings for major international clients. The team maintains strong ties with issuers and underwriters operating in Canada and Europe in particular, including in the energy, aviation, telecoms, auto, and transport sectors. Craig Arcella’s varied practice sees him assist financial institutions and corporate clients with investment-grade offerings and liability management transactions, among other matters. Andrew Pitts has considerable experience in traditional capital raising transactions as well as in relation to convertible securities and liability management. The two partners lead the group alongside William Fogg. Nicholas Dorsey is noted for his work for startup and early-stage companies as well as venture capital firms, while Douglas Dolan has a strong track record handling offerings by Canadian issuers.
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Profile
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Craig F. Arcella is Co-Head of Cravath's Finance Practice. Mr. Arcella represents financial institutions and corporate clients in a wide variety of matters, including investment grade, high‑yield and convertible bond offerings; liability management transactions; initial public offerings and other equity financings; syndicated loan and other leveraged finance transactions; and mergers and acquisitions. He also regularly advises companies with respect to governance, public disclosure and other corporate matters.
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Key clients
- AerCap
- Aon
- Element Fleet
- Genpact
- Nestlé
- ODDITY
- Rogers Communications
- Shell
- Various financial institutions
Work highlights
Represented Aon in its $6 billion senior notes offering to finance its acquisition of NFP.
Represented Rogers Communications in its $2.5billion senior notes offering.
Represented the initial purchasers in the €850 million and $1.1 billion high-yield senior secured notes offering of Belron.