Matthew J. Mallow, senior partner of the firm’s Corporate Finance Group, represents investment banks and issuers in a variety of financing matters. He has been at the forefront of many capital markets developments, handling some of the largest and most noteworthy deals and helping create the legal structure for high-yield securities, auction market preferred shares and debt exchangeable for common stock.
Mr. Mallow regularly counsels clients on Sarbanes-Oxley, the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. He also has extensive experience in privatizations, investment grade debt, follow-on equity offerings, market regulation, SEC enforcement and international transactions. Mr. Mallow frequently represents companies in public offerings, such as Och Ziff Capital Management Group in its $1.2 billion IPO and NYMEX Holdings, Inc., the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., in its $956 million secondary offering of common stock.
Mr. Mallow has advised BlackRock, Inc. on its $700 million notes offering, as well as on Sarbanes-Oxley and other general corporate matters. He also represented Kuwait Petroleum Corp. in connection with numerous financing transactions in the U.S. and participated in China Construction Bank’s privatization via a $9.2 billion initial public offering. Mr. Mallow advised NASDAQ in one of the largest private placements by number of offerees, which resulted in its conversion to an investor-owned, for-profit securities exchange; and the United States Department of Transportation in the privatization of Conrail, including advice on the development of the bid process, compliance with the statutory mandate and execution of the largest IPO at that time.
He also has represented investment banks, such as Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, in numerous debt and equity offerings.
Additionally, he has been active in insurance company offerings, having represented Ambac Financial Group, Inc., and in REIT financings through his representation of Anthracite Capital, Inc.
He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School on the securities law framework of private placements in a course entitled “Entrepreneurial Management.” Mr. Mallow represented Bard College in the creation of the Bard High School Early College, a New York City Department of Education school.
Mr. Mallow has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America.
