Our lawyers represent both domestic and international issuers and underwriters in public offerings of equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, shelf registrations, Rule 144A offerings and spin-off transactions. In the past two years, Thompson & Knight assisted our clients in closing more than $7 billion in public capital markets transactions and initial public offerings.

The Firm is recognized by the prestigious Chambers USA 2009 legal directory published by Chambers & Partners, which notes that Thompson & Knight "is extraordinarily active in M&A and capital markets transactions, financings, private equity work, public offerings and volumetric production payments."

Our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of the initial public offering process, including:

• conducting thorough due diligence reviews;
• developing and implementing pre-offering restructurings;
• attending to and implementing executive and employee benefit plans;
• advising issuers about anti-takeover mechanisms;
• working with management and the underwriters to tell the company's story effectively in the prospectus;
• preparing the registration statement and listing application;
• working with the Securities and Exchange Commission staff;
• negotiating the underwriting terms and conditions; and
• coordinating the efforts of selling stockholders.