Capital Markets and Securities

Our Capital Markets and Securities lawyers deliver strategic solutions and provide comprehensive advice on a full range of securities transactions, corporate governance and reporting matters. With over four decades of experience, we are a perennial market leader in capital markets matters, advising multinational companies, investors and investments banks/financial institutions in a wide range of securities transactions, including:

• Initial public offerings;
• Registered and Rule 144A high yield, investment grade and convertible debt offerings;
• Follow-on & secondary offerings;
• Alternative public offerings, including reverse mergers, self-filings, direct listings, and SPAC and de-SPAC transactions;
• At-the-market offerings;
• Registered direct offerings; and
• PIPEs and other private placement transactions.

Our Capital Markets and Securities practice spans a broad range of industries, with significant experience in the technology, life sciences, financial and banking, energy, manufacturing, hospitality and transportation sectors. We are securities counsel to more than 40 public companies ranging in size from small cap companies to large cap, multi-national business entities, representing clients traded on all of the major U.S. securities exchanges, the “over-the-counter” markets, and many foreign markets such as the London Stock Exchange Alternate Investment Market (AIM), the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.

Through our role as outside counsel, we have developed considerable in-depth and up-to-date experience in representing clients in connection with their periodic reporting, proxy statements and shareholder proposals, and other Securities Exchange Act compliance matters. Recognized for our thought leadership in corporate governance matters, we also advise boards of directors and board committees on a broad range of governance and transactional matters, as well as “best practices” to meet the high standards expected of members of a public company board of directors.

Clients seek Haynes Boone for our collaborative culture and client-focused approach, enabling our lawyers to deliver seamless representation across a number of disciplines in complex transactions. Our team is adept at advising clients with regard to cross-border regulations, with our cross-border work supported by our offices in London, Mexico City and Shanghai.

Recent industry recognition of our Capital Markets and Securities practice includes:

• American Lawyer Industry Awards 2024 – Best Corporate Practice (Specialty – Midmarket).

• D Magazine - Four Haynes Boone Capital Markets and Securities lawyers named 2024 Best Lawyers in Dallas.

• Texas Lawbook’s 2023 Capital Markets Corporate Deal Tracker
  
  • Ranked 7th in Texas-led deal count
  • Ranked 8th in Texas-related deal count

• The Deal’s PIPE Legal Table Report 2023 - Full Year:
  
  • Ranked 8th in deal count by placement agent legal counsel
  • Ranked 9th in deal count by investor counsel
  • Ranked 13th in deal count by issuers counsel