A partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets and Securities Group, Lawrence G. Wee focuses on corporate finance, securities regulation and securities transactions. Mr. Wee is recognized by Legal 500 as a leading capital markets lawyer.

Mr. Wee's practice includes public equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings, convertible debt offerings and offerings of asset-backed securities. He also represents public companies in connection with their ongoing securities law and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance matters and advises in connection with public mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Wee also has extensive experience in debt consent solicitations, debt restructurings and exchange offers. He regularly represents hedge funds and other investors in evaluating the covenants of both newly issued and existing high-yield debt securities.

Mr. Wee has also represented the Credit Roundtable, an association of large institutional fixed income managers, including investment advisors, insurance companies, pension funds and mutual funds, in connection with its efforts to improve the regulatory environment and market practices with respect to debt tender and exchange offers and consent solicitations.

Mr. Wee’s representations include:

• JH Investments, Oaktree Capital Management and TPG Capital in the financing aspects of their $955 million acquisition of the North American home building business of Taylor Wimpey plc.
• Barclays Capital Inc. as initial purchaser in connection with the Rule 144A/Reg. S issuances by Adams Outdoor Advertising LP, Cajun Global LLC (Church’s Chicken) and Sonic Capital LLC of an aggregate of over $1.0 billion of whole-business securitization bonds.
• Liz Claiborne, Inc. in connection with a $220 million issuance of senior secured notes secured by certain of its trademarks and a $90 million convertible notes offering.
• AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group,N.V. in connection with its $300 million senior secured credit facility.
• Oaktree Capital in connection with the issuance by its portfolio company, Aleris, Inc., of $500 million of senior notes.
• AbitibiBowater Inc. in connection with an up to $500 million issuance of senior subordinated convertible notes in a rights offering and an $850 million issuance of senior secured notes as part of AbitibiBowater's U.S. and Canadian plans of reorganization.
• Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. in connection with a $230 million issuance of senior secured notes.
• MacAndrews & Forbes-related entities in connection with high-yield debt financings, including:
  • M & F Worldwide in an offering of $175 million of senior notes to finance its acquisition of Clarke American Corp. (formerly a division of Honeywell, Inc.);
  • Clarke American Corp. in an offering of $615 million of senior notes to finance its acquisition of John H. Harland Company; and,
  • Revlon Consumer Products Corp. in an offering of $330 million of senior secured notes.
• Duane Reade Inc. in an offering of $300 million of senior secured notes.
• The bondholders of Charter Communications, Inc. in connection with their acquisition of $1.77 billion of new senior notes in Charter's chapter 11 plan of reorganization.
• Debtholders in multiple secured high-yield debt exchange offers and debt restructurings by Harrah’s Operating Company.
• Carnival Corporation & plc in various offerings of convertible and investment-grade debt and its dual listed company acquisition of P&O Princess.
• The bondholder committee in the $27 billion exchange offer by General Motors Corp. and the related chapter 11 plan of reorganization.
• The bondholder committee in the $28.5 billion exchange offer by GMAC LLC.
• Various other issuers and initial purchasers in Rule 144A/Regulation S convertible debt offerings, high-yield offerings and asset-backed securities offerings.
• Time Warner Cable with respect to securities law aspects of its acquisition of assets of Adelphia out of bankruptcy.

Mr. Wee is the author of "An Illustrated Guide to High-Yield Debt Standard Covenants" which he has presented at the Practising Law Institute’s “Understanding the Securities Laws” program.