Securities
Cravath has one of the largest U.S. and international securities practices in the world. Our lawyers represent issuers and underwriters in all types of U.S. and global offerings, including initial public offerings, equity offerings, offerings of investment grade corporate bonds and high-yield bond offerings. We also represent issuers and underwriters in sovereign debt offerings, privatizations, American depositary receipt offerings, new listings on U.S. stock exchanges, real estate financing and securities collateralized by various kinds of assets. These include offerings registered with the SEC, Rule 144A offerings, Regulation S offerings and traditional private placements. Since January 1, 2008, Cravath was involved in 476 SEC-registered or Rule 144A offerings with an aggregate deal value of over US$633 billion in proceeds.