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  1. Usgaonkar Aashim
New York
Aashim Usgaonkar
Senior Associate
aashim.usgaonkar@freshfields.com
New York: +1 212 277 4000
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Aashim is a senior associate in our New York office who primarily advises issuers and underwriters on a wide range of public and private securities offerings. His experience includes working on IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, and debt offerings across various industries. Prior to joining Freshfields, Aashim worked at a New York-based law firm where he assisted issuers and banks with public and private offerings of investment-grade and high-yield bonds and equity-linked securities, mergers and acquisitions, general public company matters and governance matters such as succession planning, proxy contests, and the development of defensive profiles.

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  • TriNet on its tender offer, share repurchase, and related financing transactions, including its $400 million private offering of senior notes.
  • EVgo on its $125 million follow-on equity offering.
  • Verlinvest in connection with a comprehensive financing by Oatly Group, consisting of:
    • the issuance of $300 million convertible senior PIK notes;
    • entry into a new $130 million term loan B credit facility;
    • and an amended sustainable revolving credit facility
  • Comcast and NBCUniversal in connection with their $15 billion exchange offers of Comcast senior notes for 16 series of Comcast's and three series of NBCUniversal's outstanding notes*
  • BuzzFeed on its sale of Complex Networks and related sub-brands to Commerce Media Holdings.
  • OSN on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Anghami, Inc.
  • Corteva on its agreement with Starboard Value and its affiliates, pursuant to which three new independent directors proposed by Starboard joined Corteva's Board of Directors*
  • 3D Systems in a series of privately negotiated agreements to repurchase approximately $135 million aggregate principal amount of its zero-coupon senior notes from holders at a 26% discount to par
  • Weber on its $250 million IPO and listing on Nasdaq
  • The underwriters in connection with
    • State Street's $1.75 billion fixed-to-floating rate senior notes offering*
    • Stewart Information Services Corporation's $115 million primary common stock offering*
    • Core & Main's $520 million registered secondary common stock offering*
    • Hewlett Packard's $2.25 billion registered notes offering
  • The initial purchasers, joint lead arrangers, or bookrunners, as applicable in connection with
    • MoneyGram's $415 million notes offering and $432.5 million credit agreement
    • Valvoline's $400 million and $600 million high-yield senior notes offerings*
    • Uniti Group's $1.11 billion and $700 million high-yield senior notes offerings, as well as its concurrent $1.1 billion cash tender offer and consent solicitation*
  • PG&E Corporation on its tri-tranche equity offering, comprising:
    • a $4.02 billion registered offering of common stock;
    • a $3.25 billion private placement of common stock;
    • a $1.45 billion registered offering of equity units with a related $523 million private placement of forward stock purchase contracts to backstop the underwriters' "greenshoe" options in the registered offerings*
  • Occidental Petroleum on its:
    • $2 billion registered senior notes offering
    • $2 billion cash tender offer and consent solicitation
    • $3 billion registered senior notes offering and related tender offer
  • Hasbro on its
    • $4 billion acquisition of Entertainment One*
    • $875 million registered common stock offering*
    • $2.38 billion registered notes offering*
  • Johnson & Johnson on its
    • acquisition of Ci:z Holdings*;
    • $2.8 billion sale to Fortive Corporation of J&J's advanced sterilization products business
    • $2.1 billion sale to Platinum Equity of J&J's LifeScan business*
  • First Solar in connection with its $596 million registered secondary common stock offering and listing on Nasdaq
  • Scientific Games on its sale of a 34.9% stake to institutional investors, including Caledonia
  • Rogers Communications on its $750 million registered MJDS floating rate senior notes offering*
  • AmerisourceBergen on its acquisition of H.D. Smith*
  • Gannett Holdings on its $400 million high-yield senior secured notes offering*
  • Swvl on its SPAC combination with Queen's Gambit Growth Capital*

*Completed prior to joining Freshfields US LLP

Aashim Usgaonkar
Senior Associate
aashim.usgaonkar@freshfields.com
T +1 212 277 4000
new york Office

3 World Trade Center

175 Greenwich Street, 51st Floor

10007 new york
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