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Richard
J.B.
Price
Partner
Education
University of Toronto, LL.B., 1988
Mount Allison University, B.A. (Hons.), 1985
Practice
Richard Price is the head of our European capital markets practice and the c0-head of our European corporate practice group. Prior to his relocation to London in August 2003, Mr. Price was based in Singapore where he led our capital markets practice in Southeast Asia and India and, prior to that, was based in our Toronto office. He has extensive experience in representing both issuers and underwriters in a wide range of international corporate finance transactions. He has overseen investment grade debt, high yield debt and equity offerings by issuers in a wide range of industries. Mr. Price’s practice includes providing advice to corporate clients regarding U.S. federal securities laws, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and other corporate matters. Mr. Price is a frequent speaker on U.S. securities law issues, international corporate finance transactions and corporate governance matters. He sat on the Competitiveness Working Group Committee of the Stock Exchange of Singapore and the Corporate Governance Committee of the Government of Singapore. He is cited as a leading corporate finance lawyer in the most recent editions of Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Chambers UK, The Legal 500 and Legal Experts.
Experience
- Dolphin Energy Limited and its sponsors in its US$1.3 billion project bond offering
- Piraeus Bank S.A. in its rights offerings
- AngloGold Ashanti in various rights offerings, convertible bond offerings and investment grade bond offerings (including the largest South African equity offering, largest gold company offering)
- The underwriters in various offerings by The Royal Bank of Scotland
- The underwriters in various offerings by HSBC Holdings plc, including the £12.5 billion rights offering by HSBC Holdings plc (the then largest UK rights offering)
- E.ON AG in its US$5.0 billion investment grade bond offering
- The Royal Bank of Scotland in its €6.5 billion offerings to finance the ABN AMRO acquisition (the largest offering by a European bank)
- Aegean Airlines S.A. in its initial public offering
- The underwriters in the initial public offering of Rede Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.
- Lecta S.A. in its high yield bond refinancing
- The underwriters in the initial public offering of Aer Lingus
- The underwriters in the €460 million high yield offering by Vendex KBB
- Mittal Steel Company N.V. in the establishment of a US$3 billion shelf registration with the SEC
- The underwriters in the €140 million high yield debt offering by Yioula Glassworks S.A.
- The underwriters in the €400 million and US$270 million high yield offering by Cell C (Pty) Limited
- Anglo American plc in the US$1.2 billion sale of its stake in Gold Fields
- The underwriters in the US$750 million privatization offering of Krung Thai Bank
- Bank of China and Bank of China (Hong Kong) in the US$2.4 billion IPO of Bank of China (Hong Kong), Hong Kong’s second largest bank
- The underwriters in a US$2.3 billion global bond offering by Singapore Telecommunications Limited
- ST Assembly Test Services (STATS), a Singapore-based semiconductor company, in its IPO and follow-on offerings
- The underwriters in the US$180 million IPO of Bharti Televentures, a leading Indian telecom company
- MTNL, the incumbent telecom provider in Delhi and Mumbai, in its NYSE listing and ADR for GDR exchange offer
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
Ontario
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