Emily E. Vaughn

Emily has broad experience in public company compliance matters, including SEC reporting, public disclosure and exchange listing compliance. She has represented issuers in a wide variety of public and private securities offerings, including investment grade and high-yield debt offerings and equity offerings. Emily also has represented companies in complex corporate transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions, private equity investments and joint ventures. She regularly counsels clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters. Her clients and transactions have covered a variety of industries, including energy, financial services, manufacturing, real estate and retail.

Representative Experience

• Represented a publicly traded Fortune 50 company as issuer in numerous public offerings of senior debt securities totaling over $5.0 billion
• Represented a publicly traded energy company in connection with its $590 million “go private” transaction
• Represented a publicly traded Fortune 200 company as issuer in a public offering of $1.0 billion of two tranches of senior debt securities
• Represented a publicly traded energy company in connection with a registered secondary offering of $95 million of its common stock by a selling stockholder, the concurrent repurchase of $40 million of its common stock from such stockholder and the subsequent 144 sale of such stockholder’s remaining common stock
• Represented a diversified real estate development and operating company in its 144A private offering of $350 million senior secured notes, $100 million equity offering, consent solicitation and follow-on offering of $75 million senior secured notes

Notable

•  Law Clerk to Hon. Albert Diaz, North Carolina Business Court

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Affiliations

• American Bar Association 
• North Carolina Bar Association