Erika Kent is a partner in the Capital Markets practice.

Erika represents public and private companies and underwriters in a wide variety of debt and equity capital markets transactions, including high yield and investment grade debt offerings, initial public offerings, acquisition financings and liability management transactions. She also advises companies on their public disclosures, SEC and NYSE/Nasdaq compliance matters and corporate governance matters.

• Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and the other initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $400 million high yield senior secured notes by Avon International Capital and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in connection with the related tender offer by Avon Products
• Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup and the other initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $500 million high yield senior notes by Harsco Corporation in connection with the acquisition of CEHI Acquisition Corporation by Harsco Corporation
• Morgan Stanley and the other initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $2 billion high yield senior notes by SS&C Technologies
• Ardagh Group in its $354 million initial public offering of Class A common stock listed on the NYSE
• Barclays as dealer manager in connection with Roadrunner Transportation Systems’s $450 million rights offering
• BofA Merrill Lynch and the other underwriters in Exact Sciences Corporation’s (i) public offering of $747.5 million convertible senior notes and (ii) concurrent exchange of approximately $493.4 million of its outstanding principal amount of convertible senior notes for consideration consisting of cash and shares of the company's common stock
• BofA Merrill Lynch and the other underwriters in Exact Sciences Corporation’s additional issuance of $218.5 million convertible senior notes
• The dealers in the establishment of a commercial paper program by Royal Caribbean Cruises
• Baker Hughes, a GE company, LLC in its $3.95 billion bond offering with registration rights and related tender offers
• The underwriters in an $800 million senior notes offering by Royal Caribbean Cruises
• Morgan Stanley and the other initial purchasers in a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of high yield senior notes by CB Escrow Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cincinnati Bell, in connection with the acquisition of Hawaiian Telcom Holdco by Cincinnati Bell
• Banco General in its Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $550 million senior notes
• BofA Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of $1 billion notes by the Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia
• BofA Merrill Lynch and the other underwriters in CBOE Holdings’s senior notes offering in connection with its acquisition of Bats Global Markets
• Morgan Stanley and the other initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of high yield senior notes by Cincinnati Bell and Morgan Stanley as dealer manager on Cincinnati Bell’s related tender offer
• BofA Merrill Lynch and the other initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A/Reg. S offering of high yield senior notes by Avon International Operations and BofA Merrill Lynch and the other dealer managers in connection with the related tender offers by Avon Products
• The underwriters in various bond offerings by Ford Motor Credit Company