Kristina L. Trauger

Overview

Kristina Trauger is a partner in the Capital Markets practice.

Kristina concentrates her practice on the representation of publicly traded and privately held companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies, investment banks and investors in a wide range of complex corporate transactions that includes securities offerings, venture capital financings and other forms of private equity investment, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructurings. She also advises clients on corporate governance, securities compliance and SEC reporting matters. Kristina represents clients in a wide range of industries in the U.S. and internationally including energy, technology, retail branding, healthcare and biomedical technology.

She has particular experience in the representation of issuers, underwriters and placement agents in connection with public and private securities offerings, including initial and secondary public offerings, shelf registrations, PIPEs and registered direct offerings, SPACs bond offerings, at-the-market offerings and rights offerings.

Kristina’s experience also includes advising investment banks in the various aspects of capital markets transactions, including in connection with engagement and retention letters, placement agent agreements, underwriting agreements, agreements among underwriters, selected dealer agreements and other syndicate documents and advising on SEC and FINRA disclosure and compliance issues.

Experience

Capital Markets Transactions

Represented a public oil and gas company in its private offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured notes.
Represented a public oil and gas company in its $300 million underwitten public offering of common stock.
Represented a private E&P company in its private offering of $1 billion in senior notes and cash tender offer.
Represented a global provider of specialty chemicals and performance materials in its $186 million underwritten public offering of common stock.
Advised a restaurant conglomerate and gaming company in a transaction that involved an offering of $1.415 billion principal amount of senior secured and senior unsecured notes, a $1.080 billion secured incremental term loan and revolver, and a reorganization that involved the largest dividend recapitalization in U.S. history.
Represented a public oil and gas company in its $650 million underwitten public offering of common stock.
Represented a private oil and gas company in its private issuance of $500 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes.
Represented a public E&P company in several underwritten public offerings of common stock with aggregate proceeds of over $1 billion.
Represented a developer and manufacturer of advanced optical products in an at-the-market offering.
Represented various underwriters, dealer managers and agents in connection with numerous follow-on offerings, public preferred stock, debt offerings and rights offerings.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Represented a public company global specialty chemicals supplier in its $1.6 billion cash and stock merger with another public specialty chemicals company.
Represented a private E&P company in its $3.8 billion merger with a public SPAC.
Represented a public oil and gas company in its $615 million acquisition of oil and gas properties and related midstream assets.
Represented a public energy company in its $340 million acquisition of oil and gas properties.
Represented an international public oil and gas company in connection with the successful defense of a proxy contest which resulted in the rejection of an alternative slate of directors and motions proposed by the former founder.
Represented a public medical technology company in its acquisition of another medical technology company.