A partner in the Corporate Department and a member of the Capital Markets and Securities Group, Tracey A. Zaccone focuses on capital markets transactions as well as merger and acquisition and private equity transactions. She has routinely represented major investment banks and issuers in connection with a wide range of registered public offerings, including initial public offerings and debt and equity offerings, as well as in connection with private placement transactions, including convertible offerings, PIPE transactions and registered direct offerings. She also regularly represents issuers and investors in structuring and negotiating private equity investments. In addition to a wide range of industries, Ms. Zaccone has particular expertise in advising clients in the clean and renewable energy, health care and infrastructure sectors.

Ms. Zaccone has also advised in connection with a broad range of transactions including complex restructurings, consortium transactions, joint ventures, asset carve-outs and divestitures. In addition, she has represented a number of clients in structuring and negotiating spin-off transactions, exchange offers, tender offers and early stage venture investments. Ms. Zaccone also routinely advises on corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance matters, including advice in connection with disclosure obligations as well as NASDAQ and NYSE matters.

Some of her recent experience includes several projects in the clean energy sector, including demand response, smart grid and gasification technologies. Some additional recent transactions include:

• representation of Stephens Inc. in connection with a rights offering by Conn’s Inc.;
• representation of the Steering Committee in connection with the CIT restructuring;
• representation of U.S. Department of Energy in connection with its Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Program;
• representation of a syndicate of investment banks as the initial purchasers in connection with a 144A high yield debt offering;
• representation of RBC Capital Markets and Lazard Capital Markets in connection with a number of registered direct and PIPEs offerings;
• representation of a group of financial institutions as initial purchasers and backstop parties in connection with a senior secured convertible notes offering by US Concrete;
• representation of Citi in connection with direct placements of equity by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners and Teekay LNG Partners;
• representation of a privately held health care company in connection with the sale of a controlling interest to a large private equity firm; and
• representation of a privately held health care company in connection with a minority investment by a large private equity firm.

She is also recognized as a leading capital markets lawyer in the United States by Legal 500.