Carey S. Roberts

Carey Roberts is a corporate partner in our New York office.  Ms. Roberts advises public and private companies, financial institutions, private equity sponsors and investors on a wide variety of domestic and international finance transactions.  She represents clients in the full range of capital markets transactions, including public and private offerings of common and preferred equity securities, high-yield and investment grade debt securities and equity-linked securities.  Her capital markets practice includes advising issuers and sponsors on liability management matters such as exchange offers, debt tender offers and consent solicitations.  She represents borrowers and lenders in acquisition financing transactions, senior and subordinated debt financings and mezzanine financings. She also advises public and private companies on securities advisory and corporate governance matters.

In addition to her finance practice, Ms. Roberts advises asset management funds on organizational structuring and capital raising matters and institutional investors in their investments in asset management funds.

Ms. Roberts is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  Ms. Roberts received an A.B. with honors from The University of Chicago in 1994.  She received a J.D. with honors from The George Washington University Law School in 1997.

Ms. Roberts is admitted to the Bar in New York, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

Representative Matters

• Represented The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in its recent $500.0 million offering of mandatory convertible preferred stock and $650.0 million registered exchange offer of senior notes due 2020 for senior notes due 2011.
• Represented Tronox Incorporated in its $245.0 million initial public offering and concurrent Rule 144A offering of $350.0 million of senior notes in connection with its spin-off from Kerr-McGee Corporation.
• Represented Joy Global Inc. in its $500.0 million offering of senior notes in connection with its acquisition of International Mining Machinery Holdings Limited. 
• Represented Calpine Corporation in a $2.4 billion multi-tiered offering of senior secured high-yield term loans and notes.

Publications and Speeches

• "The U.S. Volcker Rule and its Restrictions on Fund Activities: A Primer for Non-U.S.Financial Institutions and the Fund Managers that Market to Them," World Securities Law Report (May 2012), Co-Author
• "Federal Reserve Clarifies Volcker Rule Conformance Period Regulation," Covington Advisory (4/20/2012), Co-Author
• "The Long Arm of the Law," International Financial Law Review (April 2012), Co-Author