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Stuart K. Fleischmann
Partner

Education
Villanova University Law School, J.D., 1982
Georgetown University, College of Arts and Sciences, A.B., 1978

Practice
Stuart Fleischmann, a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets Group, has worked since 1982 at Shearman & Sterling in a wide range of securities and financing activities and has broad experience in public and private securities transactions, particularly those involving Latin American issuers and structured financings. He regularly represents underwriters and issuers, primarily in the oil and gas, steel, telephone, electricity and financial institution industries, on a wide range of SEC registered, 144A/Regulation S and private placements of debt and equity securities. He is also regularly involved in such novel transactions as toll road financings and securitizations involving credit cards, residential mortgages, international oil payments, money transfers and electronic remittances, loan pools, auto and farm equipment loans and leases and franchise revenues.

Experience
  • Represented the International Underwriters in the $69 billion equity offering by Petrobras, the Brazilian state oil company, in the largest equity offering of all time
  • Represented the International Underwriters in the $6 billion debt offering by Petrobras, the largest ever by a Brazilian issuer, as well as the International Underwriters and Lenders for substantially all of Petrobras' financings since 2001
  • Represented the International Underwriters for various 144A/Regulation S offerings by Pemex, the Mexican state company
  • Represented the International Underwriters for BNDES and Banco Nordeste, the Brazilian state export development banks, in their recent debt offerings
  • Represented the International Underwriters for the Government of Chile in its recent sovereign debt offering, as well as all of their offerings since 1998
  • Represented the International Underwriters in debt offerings and liability management transactions for Brazil's JBS, Bertin, Gerdau, Suzano Cellulose and others
  • Represented the International Underwriters for over 25 debt and equity offerings for Latin American financial institutions, including Mexico's Bancomer, Brazil's Unibanco, Chile's Santander Chile, Panama's Banco General and Banco Continental, Costa Rica's Credomatic, Peru's Interbank, Argentina's Banco de Galicia, Banco Frances and Banco Rio de la Plata, Jamaica's National Commercial Bank, the Dominican Republic's Banco de Credito, Venezuela's Banco Union and numerous others throughout the region
  • Sonic Industries in its $1.2 billion franchise royalty securitization, Interbank in its MT100 money transfer securitization and numerous industries in connection with a wide variety of secured export note financings, credit card and mortgage securitizations
  • Private Export Funding Corporation in financings for over 100 aircraft purchased by Latin American and other airlines in over 25 countries as well as regular secured note financings guaranteed by the US Export-Import Bank of the United States
  • John Deere in its public ABS transactions involving securitizations of its farm equipment receivables
  • Bank of America/Merrill Lynch in its "PPLUS" offerings of repackaged securities
  • Various conduits in connection with the establishment of a commercial paper issuance facility and a separate medium term note issuance program backed by various asset backed transactions


Selected Professional & Business Activities
  • Speaker at Selected Continuing Education Seminars
  • Member, Committee of International Affairs, New York City Bar Association
  • Member, Committee of Structured Finance, New York City Bar Association


Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York