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Morrison & Foerster Named Best Law Firm for International U.S. Private Placements by GlobalCapital

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Morrison & Foerster has been named Best Law Firm for International U.S. Private Placements at GlobalCapital’s Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Debt Awards 2019. The awards highlight the deals and firms that have made the most difference to loan markets in 2019.

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Morrison & Foerster has been named Best Law Firm for International U.S. Private Placements at GlobalCapital’s Syndicated Loan, Leveraged Finance and Private Debt Awards 2019. The awards highlight the deals and firms that have made the most difference to loan markets in 2019.Morrison & Foerster is one of the leading securities and capital markets law firms in the world, advising issuers, underwriters and agents in domestic and international, private and public financings. With respect to overall issues, we regularly represent issuance exceeding 25% of total cross-border U.S. private placement debt.GlobalCapital is a leading news, opinion and data service for people and institutions using and working in the international capital markets. The Loan Awards are the only full-scale awards for the loan market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and the only ones based on a poll of market participants. To view the full list of winners, visit GlobalCapital’s <a target="_blank" href="https://www.globalcapital.com/article/b1k9qms5rpkvqd/globalcapital-syndicated-loan-leveraged-finance-and-private-debt-awards-2019-the-full-results?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email%20marketing&utm_campaign=private%20debt">website</a>.

Morrison & Foerster Named Best Law Firm for International U.S. Private Placements by GlobalCapital

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Brian represents clients in a wide range of financing transactions, including private debt and equity placements, bank syndications, various bank finance products, high yield offerings, and mezzanine and LBO financings. He has a specialized practice representing non-U.S. entities that want to make cross-border private placements of securities to U.S. and other large financial institutions and pension funds.He has extensive experience in cross-border private placements and practices almost exclusively on the issuer side of the table.Brian’s private placement capabilities in issuer-side cross-border placement representation far exceed any other specialist cross-border private placement practice in both issuance value and number of issues. During the course of the last several years, with respect to overall issues and dollar volume, Brian led his group in the representation of issuances of approximately 30 percent of total cross-border USPP debt.In addition to having worked in private placement finance for well over 30 years, Brian continues to act as the sole issuer-side member of the Transactions Process Management Committee of the American College of Investment Counsel (ACIC) where he is a fellow. The ACIC is responsible for the development of new model forms for the cross-border private placement market.

Brian Bates

Senior Of Counsel

Scott has a corporate finance practice with emphasis on cross–border securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. His capital markets experience includes private placements and public offerings of debt and equity (including Rule 144A, Regulation S, and SEC–registered offerings); his M&A experience encompasses public and private acquisitions, asset sales, and tender offers; and his restructuring experience includes debt restructurings, bankruptcy proceedings, and corporate spin‑offs.As part of the firm’s leading private placement team, Scott has specialized experience in representing issuers who wish to make private placements of securities to institutional investors. In addition to traditional model form transactions, Scott is a member of the Loan Market Association working group on private placements that developed the LMA private placement documentation.

Scott D. Ashton

Partner

Private Placements