Michelle Gasaway

Practice Areas

Michelle Gasaway represents corporate and REIT clients, public (including de-SPAC) and private companies, private equity sponsors, investment banks and other investors in their most significant capital markets transactions.

With nearly three decades of experience and involvement in approximately 500 transactions, Ms. Gasaway has cultivated extensive experience with unique, customized financing transactions, as well as all types of other securities-related representations, with particular focus on complex global financing, balance sheet and capital-structure related transactions.

Leveraging her in-depth knowledge of financing alternatives and the latest trends in the capital markets, Ms. Gasaway provides clients with a comprehensive understanding of financing strategies, and with practical, commercial and strategic advice customized to each client’s business, industry, objectives and culture. Ms. Gasaway’s representations include advising on:

• high-yield and other securitized and collateral-backed financings

• special situations and liability management exercises (LME), both opportunistic and distressed, including tender offers, exchange offers, amend and extend bond transactions, and consent solicitations

• initial public offerings (IPOs) (including SPAC IPOs), spin-offs and carve-outs

• investment-grade and convertible debt

• PIPEs, private capital and other private placements

• preferred stock, mezzanine securities, warrants and other equity securities

• rights offerings, recapitalizations, restructurings, distressed financings, exit financings and other liquidity transactions

• acquisition financings and de-SPAC transactions

• joint venture and co-investment financing arrangements

• registered direct offerings, block trades and other common stock offerings

• “at-the-market” (ATM) programs and equity lines of credit (ELOCs)

• other customized transactions

Personal

J.D., Harvard Law School (cum laude); M.B.A., University of Georgia (summa cum laude); B.S., University of Georgia (summa cum laude)

Recognized as a leading capital markets attorney in California and nationwide, she has been recognized as one of The Deal’s Top Women in Dealmaking and Best in Capital Markets at Euromoney’s Women in Business Law Americas Awards and has been named to The Legal 500 U.S., IFLR1000 and The Best Lawyers in America.