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Mr. Shaw is a Partner in the Firm's Corporate Department. He represents several leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in connection with high yield and acquisition financing. He also advises several of the Firm's investment banking clients on transactions involving high yield debt securities, loans and bridge loans and the Firm's issuer and underwriter clients in connection with IPOs and other capital markets transactions.
His recent private equity financing experience includes the representation of a consortium including KKR, Silver Lake, Bain Capital, Apax and AlpInvest in connection with the financing of its acquisition of NXP B.V. (formerly Philips Semiconductors), together with subsequent tender offers and exchange offers and the listing on NASDAQ of NXP Semiconductors N.V. He also represented a consortium including Apax, Blackstone, KKR, Permira and Providence in connection with the high yield financing of its acquisition of TDC A/S, the former national telecommunications provider of Denmark.
Mr. Shaw regularly represents leading underwriters of high yield debt and recently represented the lead arrangers in connection with a series of high yield financings for Virgin Media.
He received his B.A.(Jur.) from the University of Adelaide in 1991, his LL.B.(Hons.) from the University of Adelaide Law School in 1994, an LL.M.(Comm.) from the University of Adelaide Law School in 1997 and an LL.M. from Columbia University School of Law in 1997. He was a James Kent Scholar at Columbia in 1997.
Honors/Associations
Publications
Admissions
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New York 1998 |
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U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1999 |
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U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1999 |
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Supreme Court of South Australia 1995 |
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Education
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Columbia Law School, 1997 LL.M.
James Kent Scholar;
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University of Adelaide Law School, 1997 LL.M. |
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University of Adelaide Law School, 1993 LL.B.
First Class Honours |
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University of Adelaide, 1991 B.A. |
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