Robert M. Hayward, P.C.

Investment Grade Debt Offerings — $150 billion+

• Counsel to The Boeing Company, Kellogg Company, Whirlpool Corporation, Deere & Co. and John Deere Capital Corporation in offerings of investment grade senior notes in excess of $150 billion
• Led The Boeing Company’s May 2020 senior notes offering of $25 billion spread across seven maturities, which is the largest non-M&A bond offering of all time, the sixth-largest overall and the largest of 2020

High Yield Debt Offerings — $25 billion+

• Counsel to Biomet, Inc., Carvana Co., Nuveen Investments, Inc., Express, Inc., Chemtura Corp., Springs Window Fashions, Joy Global, Inc., Material Sciences Corp., SITEL Worldwide Corporation, Aspect Software, Inc., Atrium Windows in offerings of in excess of $25 billion of senior, senior toggle and senior subordinated notes pursuant to Rule 144A

IPOs and Follow-On and Rights Offerings — $20 billion+

• Counsel to Carvana Co., Ping Identity Holding Corp., OzForex Group Limited, U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc., Cushman & Wakefield plc, Express, Inc., TransFirst Holdings Corp., Flagstone Foods, Cinemark Holdings, Inc., Packaging Corporation of America, CapitalSource Inc., Premium Standard Farms, Inc., BlackLine, Inc., Coach, Inc., Infineon Technologies AG, Vital Therapies, Inc., CelluTissue Holdings, Inc., RE/MAX Holdngs, Inc., Akebia Therapeutics Inc., Tokai Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and/or their private equity sponsor in IPOs and follow-on and rights offerings of common stock in excess of $20 billion

PIPEs and Related Investments — $15 billion+

• Counsel to companies and private equity sponsors with respect to PIPEs and related investments into Zales Corp., Ann, Inc., Pacific Sunwear of California, Inc., R1 RCM Inc., Reliance Jio Platforms, Net2Phone Inc., Albireo Pharma, Inc., Edge Therapeutics, Inc., Aksys Ltd., Aerpio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Aileron Therapeutics Inc.

M&A, Joint Ventures and Activism Defense — $90 billion+

• Counsel to The Boeing Company (NYSE), Biomet, Inc. (Nasdaq), Tenneco Inc. (NYSE), Deere & Co., Adolph Coors Company (NYSE), Ingevity Corp. (NYSE), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE), Walgreen Co. (NYSE), Kellogg Company (NYSE), PayPay Inc. (Nasdaq), Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq), DexOne Corporation (NYSE), Chemtura Corp. (NYSE), Epiq Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq), R1 RCM Inc. (Nasdaq), U.S. Silica Holdings, Inc. (NYSE), Berliner Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq), Argosy Education Group (Nasdaq), Nuveen Investments, Inc. (NYSE), Packaging Corporation of America (NYSE), Meritage Corporation (NYSE), Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq), Del Web Corporation (NYSE), MicroAge, Inc. (Nasdaq), CardConnect, Material Sciences Corp. (NYSE), TransFirst Holdings Corp. (NYSE), Huntway Refining Company (NYSE) and UbiquiTel, Inc. (Nasdaq) with respect to numerous acquisitions, dispositions, carve-outs and mergers-of-equals in excess of $90 billion
• Counsel to Vista Equity Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Francisco Partners, Weston Presidio, Madison Dearborn Partners, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Summit Partners, Water Street Healthcare Partners and Linden Capital Partners in numerous private acquisitions and dispositions
• Counsel to numerous NYSE and Nasdaq companies across industries in undisclosed shareholder activism and hostile takeover response and preparedness matters. Also counsel to Tenneco Inc. (NYSE) in its 2018 agreement with Ichan Enterprises L.P., Tenneco Inc. (NYSE) in its 2020 settlement with Protean Services LLC and Daniel A. Ninivaggi regarding the composition of the Tenneco board, and Epiq Systems Inc. (Nasdaq) in connection with two separate proxy contests (2014 and 2016).
• Counsel to Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE) in its joint venture transaction with SABMiller plc to form MillerCoors LLC

Packaging Corporation of America (NYSE: PKG), General Counsel (interim: 2003–2006)