Paul Hastings Further Strengthens Investment Grade Finance Practice with Premier Capital Markets Attorney

NEW YORK – In a move that strategically enhances its Investment Grade Finance practice, Paul Hastings LLP today announced that capital markets attorney Jeffrey Ramsay has joined as a partner in the firm’s New York office.

Joining from Davis Polk, where he practiced for more than 20 years, Ramsay has extensive experience in capital markets transactions and financings, with a focus on investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings as well as equity and equity-linked deals, including IPOs, follow-ons, block trades, liability management and debt restructuring matters.

“Jeff adds significant bench strength and depth to our strong Investment Grade Finance practice,” said Global Finance partner Morgan Bale. “His wide experience and deep market knowledge further position us to expand our representation of leading investment and commercial banks, corporate clients and asset managers on some of the largest and highest-profile event-driven financings and corporate transactions.”

In addition to his transactional work, Ramsay is a trusted advisor to investment banking clients on securities law and corporate clients on corporate governance, SEC compliance and general corporate matters. His industry expertise spans life sciences, technology, financial services, energy, entertainment, consumer products and industrials.

Ramsay has advised banks, including Barclays, Bank of America Securities, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, TD Securities and Wells Fargo Securities, and completed investment-grade debt offerings for The Cigna Group, Medtronic and TD Bank, high-yield debt offerings for Chobani and WMG Acquisition, and IPOs for Royalty Pharma and Warner Music Group.

“Paul Hastings has built premier teams across practices, including in the investment-grade bond and loan markets,” said Ramsay. “I could not be more excited to join the firm and look forward to introducing its leading corporate and finance platform to my existing client relationships while contributing to its impressive growth.”

Ramsay’s arrival bolsters a strong team led by Bale—who joined in 2022—which is focused on investment grade finance. Combining Paul Hastings’ existing investment grade client base with Ramsay’s practice reinforces the firm’s place among the top players in investment grade transactions. The firm’s capital markets and global finance practices have seen significant gains in market share and synergistic growth with the addition of more than 40 partners in the last two years across the firm’s global footprint.

Notable investment-grade transactions over the past year include the firm’s representation of banks and financing sources on financings for Verizon’s pending $20 billion acquisition of Frontier Communications, Occidental Petroleum’s $12 billion acquisition of CrownRock, ONEOK’s $6 billion combined acquisitions of EnLink and Medallion Midstream and Sixth Street Partners’ pending $5.1 billion acquisition of Enstar Group Limited.

Paul Hastings’ Investment Grade Finance practice advises leading global banks, financial institutions and corporations on their most significant investment-grade financing matters, from acquisition and other event-driven financings, bridge financings, revolving facilities and other syndicated lending to debt and equity securities offerings. The firm was recently named “Banking Law Firm of the Year” at the Chambers USA Awards 2024 and is Band 1-ranked for Banking & Finance and ranked in the top 10 for US IPOs, US Equity Offerings, US High-Yield Corporate Bonds, US Loans, US Leveraged Finance and US Leveraged Loans by deal count in Bloomberg’s FY2024 league tables.

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