Richard Baumann, of counsel to the Firm, is a seasoned corporate and securities attorney with broad and deep experience. He represents underwriting and placing banks, public and private companies, shareholders and others in a wide variety of equity and debt capital markets transactions and public and private mergers and acquisitions. He also regularly advises on other complex corporate governance, corporate reporting, securities regulatory and corporate finance matters, including on a cross-border basis.
For over 30 years, Mr. Baumann has represented global and regional investment banks and securities issuers in equity IPOs, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings and other substantial capital markets transactions. For many of those years, Mr. Baumann was based in London and advised on cross-border transactions originating throughout Europe and in India, China and Africa. In recent years, he has been an active member of the Firm’s SPAC and JOBs Act practices, among others.
Mr. Baumann practiced for many years at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and London. He was also a partner at Norton Rose (now Norton Rose Fulbright) in London, where he helped establish that firm’s cross-border US-law capital markets practice, and a partner at Dorsey & Whitney, where he helped establish that firm’s international securities practice as a market leader in India.
Mr. Baumann has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University’s School of Public & International Affairs and earned his J.D. at NYU Law School.