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Experience:
Bruce Perce focuses on securities; mergers, acquisitions and other significant corporate transactions; and general corporate matters. He represents issuers, underwriters, and investors in connection with a broad range of capital-raising transactions, including public offerings of equity, debt, convertible, hybrid, and other types of securities; private offerings of investment-grade and high-yield debt securities and asset-backed securities under Rule 144A and Regulation S; initial public offerings by US and foreign issuers; and venture capital transactions.
Bruce represents publicly and privately held companies in connection with mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, consent solicitations, proxy contests, joint ventures, spin-offs, recapitalizations, and other significant corporate transactions. He also advises companies, directors, and management on corporate governance and SEC reporting and compliance matters, and on compliance with stock exchange and Nasdaq listing requirements.
Notable Engagements:
Represented CBOT Holdings, Inc., the holding company for the Chicago Board of Trade, in its $12 billion merger with Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. and related unsolicited takeover proposal from IntercontinentalExchange, Inc.
Represented American Cellular Corporation in a tender offer $715 million of senior notes and related consent solicitation.
Represented Intranasal Therapeutics in connection with a $40 million venture capital financing.
Represented Lehman Brothers Inc., Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. and the other underwriters in an $81 million public offering of common stock by Cogent Communications Group.
Served as interim general counsel of CBOT Holdings, Inc. from December 2005 to May 2006.
Represented Nucryst Pharmaceuticals Corporation, a Canadian corporation, in connection with its $75 million initial public offering in the United States.
Represented Dobson Communications Corporation in connection with a $150 million floating rate high-yield debt offering and a $150 million convertible bond offering.
Represented Dobson Communications Corporation in connection with a registered exchange offer for outstanding preferred stock.
Represented Dobson Communications Corporation in connection with a $825 million secured high-yield debt offering.
Represented Assured Guaranty Ltd., a Bermuda company, in connection with its $880 million initial public offering in the United States.
Represented Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC, Banc One Capital Markets, Inc. and SunTrust Capital Markets, Inc. in connection with a $300 million debt offering by International Speedway Corporation.
Represented Merrill Lynch & Co., Wachovia Securities, LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in connection with a $150 million debt offering and $150 million convertible bond offering by American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings, Inc.
Represented Arthur Andersen LLP in the sale of its internal audit and risk consulting practices to Robert Half International Inc. and Protiviti Inc.
Represented Cabot Industrial Trust in connection with its $2.1 billion acquisition by CalWest Industrial Properties, LLC.
Represented Salomon Smith Barney, JPMorgan, Banc of America Securities LLC and the other initial purchasers in a $4.6 billion global debt offering by Kellogg Company.
Represented Salomon Smith Barney and Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in a $500 million global debt offering by The Dow Chemical Company.
Represented Merrill Lynch & Co., JP Morgan, Goldman, Sachs & Co. and the other underwriters in a $1.2 billion debt offering by Motorola.
Education:
Georgetown University Law Center, LLM, with distinction, 1993, University of Wisconsin Law School, JD, cum laude, 199, Colgate University, AB, 1987. |
