Waldo Jones is the partner that heads up the Firm’s Australia Practice and has been resident in Australia for 30 of the 35 years he has been with the Firm. Mr. Jones advises numerous U.S. and non-U.S. corporations and broker-dealers and non-U.S. governments on a wide range of securities, M&A, project finance, bank finance, privatization, liability management, restructuring, venture capital and joint venture transactions.
Securities offerings have included a variety of SEC-registered and private offerings of equity, debt (secured and unsecured), hybrid securities, convertible securities, medium-term notes, extendible notes, high-yield debt and commercial paper of various governmental and corporate issuers in a wide range of industries. Mr. Jones has also advised extensively on M&A and on corporate governance, U.S. securities law compliance, particularly matters arising under SEC’s cross-border tender offer rules, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and related SEC and U.S. stock exchange rules.
Mr. Jones has been consecutively ranked as a Band 1 lawyer in Capital Markets: U.S. law in Australia by Chambers in the past decade. He is also constantly recognized in capital markets, M&A, private equity and reorganization by Best Lawyers in Australia, Who’s Who Legal and Legal 500 Asia Pacific.