Chair of the firm’s public companies practice, Thomas Hanley focuses his practice on advising public and private companies on corporate and securities law issues, including capital-raising transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) compliance and corporate litigation.
Tom also counsels management, in-house counsel, boards of directors, board committees and investors on fiduciary duty issues, takeover defense, proxy contests/contested elections and related issues.
Prior to entering private practice, Tom was a lawyer in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance. He leverages his experience in that role by serving as a primary liaison between clients and SEC, New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq staff on disclosure, governance, listing and interpretive issues.
He is an author and frequent speaker/instructor on securities law, M&A, corporate governance and corporate finance.
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Represented Customers Bancorp, a bank holding public company that operates through its wholly owned banking subsidiary Customers Bank, in the closing of its underwritten public offering of $100 million in aggregate principal amount of its 6.875% fixed-to-floating-rate subordinated notes due 2036.
Has served as initial public offering (IPO) and public offering/private placement lead counsel on equity and debt offerings ranging from $20 million to $1.2 billion.
Has served as issuer’s or underwriter’s counsel in connection with more than $8.5 billion in equity and debt offerings.
Has served as the lead acquirer’s or seller’s counsel in M&A transactions ranging from $20 million to $8 billion.
Has served as the lead acquirer’s or seller’s counsel in M&A transactions in aggregate value of more than $11 billion.
Advised on a $500 million securitization of a portfolio of unsecured consumer installment loans for a community banking company.
Advised on a $42 million underwritten follow-on offering for a community banking company.
Advised on a $90 million underwritten follow-on offering for a community banking company.
Advised on a $55 million underwritten senior notes offering for a community banking company.
Advised on a $41.3 billion underwritten secondary offering for an information technology company.
Advised on a $1.1 billion IPO for an information technology company.
Advised on a $330 million IPO for a specialty retailer.
Advised on a $272 million underwritten shelf takedown offering for a life sciences company.
Advised on a $225 million underwritten follow-on public offering of common stock for a Class I railroad.
Advised on a $43 million underwritten follow-on public offering of common stock for a real estate investment trust (REIT).
Represented Fountain Life, an advanced diagnostics and preventative health company, in its acquisition of LifeOmic.
Represented Pacific Life Insurance Co. in the sale of its third‐party credit asset management firm, Pacific Asset Management LLC, which at closing managed over $20 billion, to Aristotle Capital Management LLC.
