Wentian Huang

Mr. Huang has significant experience representing clients across a wide range of industries and also regularly advises corporate clients on U.S. securities laws issues including preparation of public disclosures, corporate governance and stock exchange matters.

Notable representations include:

• Becton, Dickinson and Company in various financing transactions, including common and preferred equity and debt financings for its $24 billion acquisition of C.R. Bard (one of the largest U.S. M&A equity financings in the past 30 years) and its $12 billion acquisition of CareFusion Corporation;
• Endo International plc in its $1.8 billion Rule 144A high-yield, senior secured notes offerings and its various tender offer, exchange offer and other liability management transactions;
• Coty Inc. in various financing transactions, including its $750 million strategic private offering of convertible preferred stock to KKR in connection with Coty’s proposed sale of its professional beauty and retail hair businesses and its $550 million/€800 million Rule 144A offering of U.S. dollar- and euro-denominated senior notes;
• Frontier Communications in its $10.5 billion acquisition of wireline assets from Verizon;
• Rockwell Collins, Inc. in its $8.6 billion acquisition of B/E Aerospace;
•  HCP, Inc. (now Healthpeak Properties, Inc.) in its spin-off of a portion of its real estate assets into a split, publicly traded REIT called Quality Care Properties, Inc.;
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. in its spin-off of its material technologies segment into a split, publicly traded corporation called Versum Materials, Inc.;
• Maple Parent Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Keurig Green Mountain, in its acquisition of Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc. (now Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.);
• Intelsat S.A. in its $400 million Rule 144A offering of high-yield senior notes; 
• the underwriters in the initial public offering of Match Group, Inc.;
• the initial purchasers in the $900 million Rule 144A offering of high-yield senior notes by MDC Partners Inc.;
• TerraForm Power, Inc. in various financing transactions, including public and private offerings of high-yield notes and common equity;
• Extended Stay America in various financing transactions, including its $400 million Rule 144A offering of senior notes and a number of secondary equity block trades; and
• various corporate issuers, including Activision Blizzard, Inc., Gilead Sciences, Inc., JMP Group LLC and SL Green Realty Corp., in a variety of U.S. dollar-, euro- and sterling-denominated investment-grade notes offerings.