James Michelson

James Michelson advises public and private corporations, financial institutions and private equity sponsors on a range of corporate and capital markets matters, including equity and debt offerings, liability management exercises, acquisitions, disposals and corporate reorganizations. He also regularly advises on corporate governance matters.

Mr. Michelson’s experience includes advising:

• International Paper Company on its:
  • US$9.9 billion acquisition of DS Smith and secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange
  • consent solicitation for four series of notes outstanding under DS Smith’s €5 billion medium-term note programme listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
• Hellenic Financial Stability Fund on:
  • the €1.35 billion equity offering of its 27% stake in Piraeus Bank
  • the €295 million disposal of its 9% equity stake in Alpha Bank
• the underwriters in connection with UltraGreen.ai Limited’s US$400 million initial public offering and listing on the main board of the SGX
• various U.K. plc issuers on their proposed IPOs on the NYSE and Nasdaq
• the underwriters on the establishment by the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of its global medium-term note programme, and the DRC’s US$1.25 billion debut sovereign bond offering
• Telegram Group Inc. on:
  • its initial $1.75 billion issuance of pre-IPO convertible bonds and several follow-on offerings
  • its exchange and tender offer for $2.35 billion of pre-IPO convertible bonds and a new issue of $1.7 billion of pre-IPO convertible bonds
• Energean plc on its €400 million offering of notes due 2031
• CI Financial Corp. on its €1.1 billion offering of notes due 2031
• Nokia Corporation on its €5 billion euro medium-term note programme listed on Euronext Dublin, including a tender offer for €700 million of its existing notes and a new issue of €500 million of sustainability linked notes
• Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., Pfizer Inc., Ecolab, Inc. and Ashtead Group plc on the establishment of, and subsequent updates of their euro-commercial paper programme
• Sampo plc on its $4.7 billion acquisition of the remaining stake in Topdanmark A/S
• Phoenix Group Holdings plc on its $4.1 billion acquisition of ReAssure Group plc from Swiss Re
• Horvik Limited on its preconditional mandatory offer to acquire Trans-Siberian Gold plc, an AIM-quoted gold producer
• Noble Corporation plc and its subsidiaries on a restructuring of their debt in a Chapter 11 case in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas