Capital Markets lawyers

Patrick Spicer

Patrick Spicer is a senior partner in the Corporate M&A Group, and chairperson of Matheson. He is a former Head of the Matheson's Corporate and Commercial Department. Patrick acts for a large range of international companies doing business in and from Ireland, and specialises in particular in public and private company M&A, private equity transactions, equity fundraisings, reorganisations and refinancings. Patrick is a previous winner of the International Law Office Client Choice award for Corporate Law in Ireland. Patrick is also a member of the Council, and a director, of Dublin Chamber, and is a former director of Junior Achievement Ireland.

Matheson LLP

Patrik Gustafsson-Sonne

Advokat/Partner

MAQS Advokatbyrå

Patrikios Pavlou

Patrikios Pavlou is the Senior Internal Consultant of the firm. His areas of expertise include Banking and Finance Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Capital markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax Law, Arbitration, Travel & Tourism Law, Intellectual Property and Trademarks.

Patrikios Legal

Patrizio Messina

Managing Partner Italy

Hogan Lovells International LLP

Paul Bonewitz

Paul Bonewitz serves as Global Vice Chair of the firm’s Finance Department, and formerly served as Chair of the New York Finance Department. He is a member of the Banking, Direct Lending & Private Debt, Capital Markets, and Private Equity Finance Practices. He represents investment banks, direct lenders, and other financial institutions in a wide range of leveraged finance transactions, including acquisition financings and cross-border financings, syndicated, asset-based, and unitranche financings, special situations lending, and workout transactions. Paul's representative clients include various investment banks and direct lenders, including: Jefferies Finance Barclays Bank Goldman Sachs JPMorgan Chase Bank Credit Suisse Bank of America Golub Capital Markets Apollo Credit Blackstone Credit Macquarie Principal Finance Churchill Asset Management Varagon Capital Partners Ares Capital Corporation He is also a member of Latham’s Finance Department’s Opinions and Confirmations Committee.

Latham & Watkins

Paul Carroll

Paul is a partner in the Finance and Capital Markets Department. Paul advises on a wide variety of transaction types including syndicated and bilateral lending transactions, leveraged acquisition financings, real estate financings, receivables financings, project finance and debt restructurings. Paul began his career at Matheson and returned to the firm in 2020 following four years in the London office of New York firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. As a result of this experience, Paul has particular expertise in cross-border financing and corporate transactions.

Matheson LLP

Paul Chanter

Partner

Ogier

Paul Dickson

Partner; Paul has a broad practice covering a range of corporate and corporate finance matters for listed and unlisted clients. His experience includes advising on public takeovers and mergers, private M&A, equity capital markets and asset management transactions, together with partnership and investment fund structures.

Slaughter and May

Paul F. Sheridan, Jr.

Paul Sheridan represents companies and private equity firms in high-stakes transactions and corporate matters. He serves as Latham’s Global Chair of Private Capital, which encompasses all liquid and illiquid asset classes, including the firm’s direct lending, restructuring, private equity, private equity finance, real estate, energy and infrastructure, fund formation, and structured credit practices. He has served multiple terms on the firm’s Executive Committee; as Chair of the Income Partner & Counsel Committee; and as Global Chair of the Private Equity Practice. Paul leverages trusted relationships across the private capital ecosystem and his comprehensive understanding of sophisticated investment strategies to help clients navigate: Leveraged buyouts and other investment transactions Mergers and acquisitions, with extensive experience on complex cross-border transactions Private and public offerings Venture capital financings General company representation Paul maintains an active pro bono practice, including advising the Center for New American Security, a bipartisan national security think tank, for more than a decade. He was appointed by Governor Glenn Youngkin (Virginia) to the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA). He is a member of The Economic Club of Washington, and a past member of the Young President’s Organization (YPO). Paul is also a trustee of the Potomac School in McLean, Virginia. Paul served as a law clerk to Judge James C. Cacheris, Chief Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Latham & Watkins

Paul H. Assies

Attorney at Law | Partner Specialist lawyer for banking and capital market law

CBH Rechtsanwälte

Paul Keane

Consultant

Reddy Charlton LLP

Paul Kinsella

Ropes & Gray LLP

Paul Luiki

Partner

Fellner Wratzfeld & Partners

Paul M. Dudek

Paul Dudek, a former senior official at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, delivers action-oriented solutions to the most sophisticated US securities law questions that public companies and IPO candidates face. Paul leverages his comprehensive SEC regulatory knowledge and understanding of evolving markets to guide public companies and IPO issuers through: Capital markets transactions, including those involving non-US companies and sovereigns Ongoing public company representation M&A situations As a key member of the firm’s National Office, a central resource for clear, pragmatic securities advice, Paul helps clients accomplish their business objectives without undue legal risk. In his previous role as Chief of the Office of International Corporate Finance in the SEC’s division of Corporate Finance for more than two decades, Paul oversaw efforts to develop and implement rulemaking initiatives and interpretive policies pertaining to US public and private offerings, listings, and other transactions and periodic reporting by foreign private issuers in the US; multinational offerings by foreign and domestic issuers, especially with respect to Regulation S, Rule 144A, Form 20-F, and Securities Act and Exchange Act filings by foreign private issuers; the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (MJDS); American depositary receipts (ADRs); and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). During his tenure as Office Chief, more than 2,000 foreign private issuers completed their initial registrations with the SEC, including through traditional global or US-only IPOs, privatizations, spin-offs, straight listings, and M&A transactions, and many sovereign issuers completed their initial US registered debt offerings. Similarly in that time, numerous foreign corporate and governmental issuers effected a wide range of follow-on capital markets transactions in SEC registered offerings. Paul led initiatives relating to IFRS and helped implement rulewriting and other projects under the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 and the JOBS Act of 2012, including those relating to cross-border derivatives transactions, the extraterritorial application of the anti-fraud provisions of the federal securities laws, and amendments to Rule 144A. Paul also served as the SEC’s representative to the Corporate Governance Committee of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He completed significant work relating to international organizations, including the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Financial Stability Board. Before joining the SEC, Paul was in private practice in New York, where he advised companies and financial intermediaries on capital markets transactions. Paul was an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Philharmonic.

Latham & Watkins

Paul Martin

Partner

Mourant

Paul Mousel

Paul Mousel is a Founding Partner of Arendt & Medernach. He is a member of the Banking and Financial Services practice where he specialises in securities law, regulatory matters involving banks, investment firms, insurance and reinsurance companies as well as all aspects of organisation, reorganisation, mergers & acquisitions and liquidation of financial institutions.

Arendt & Medernach

Paul Mudie

Partner; Paul has a wide range of corporate and commercial experience. His broad practice includes advising on public mergers and acquisitions, private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, capital markets, general company law, cyber security, corporate governance, commercial agreements, insolvency and group restructurings. He is an active member of the firm’s Commercial Contracts advisory team and its Financial Institutions Group.

Slaughter and May

Paul Raade

Partner

Krogerus

Paul Rodel

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Paul Stein

Paul Stein is a partner in the Securities Group at Cassels. Paul acts as lead counsel for a number of public clients that have been involved in mergers, acquisitions, takeover bids, going-private transactions, spin-off transactions, corporate reorganizations, corporate finance and corporate governance matters. Paul’s practice also involves assisting mining clients in the negotiation of joint ventures, farm-in agreements and financing of exploration and development projects, both domestically and internationally. Paul is listed as one of the world’s leading mining practitioners by Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, the Lexpert Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada, and Best Lawyers in Canada. Learn more.

Cassels

Paul Stepak

Paul is the National Practice Group Leader for the Blakes Tax group. Paul practises corporate and partnership income taxation, including advising on domestic and cross-border tax planning, private and public M&As, private equity and Canadian pension funds' investments, reorganizations, capital markets transactions, financings, and taxation of mutual funds, partnerships and other investment vehicles. Cross-border inbound structuring, including for private equity funds and their portfolio companies, is a significant component of his practice. Paul also has experience assisting clients with the resolution of Canadian federal and provincial tax audits and appeals at all stages. Paul frequently writes and speaks on domestic and international tax issues.

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Paul Trewartha

Partner

Campbells

Paul Verbesey

Partner

Goodwin

Paul Watterson

Paul N. Watterson, Jr. concentrates on structured product and derivative transactions, the formation and representation of credit funds, and capital markets regulation. Paul is counsel to many participants in the securitization, credit and derivatives markets. He represents underwriters, issuers and managers in structured financings, including collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). He is involved in many structured finance transactions that use credit derivatives, including regulatory capital transactions and repackagings. Schulte is widely acknowledged as having the nation’s premier investment management practice, and Paul advises many private investment funds on their transactions in derivatives and asset-backed securities, portfolio purchases and sales, and formation of risk retention vehicles. He has also been active in the creation of derivative products that reference hedge funds. Paul is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA, Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Banking, Finance and Transactional Law Lawyers, The Legal 500 United States (Hall of Fame), New York Super Lawyers and PLC Which Lawyer? Multi-jurisdictional Guide: Capital Markets: Derivatives. After earning his A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University, Paul was an officer at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and London. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Paul served as a law clerk to the Honorable Leonard I. Garth, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and then as Assistant to the Mayor of the City of New York.

McDermott Will & Schulte