Charles (Chuck) Cassidy advises some of the firm’s most important corporate and investment banking clients on a wide range of capital markets transactions. 

Chuck combines extensive experience across capital markets products with a pragmatic approach to deliver commercial advice to issuers, underwriters, and initial purchasers on:

  • Secured and unsecured high yield notes offerings
  • Investment-grade notes offerings
  • Initial public offerings and other equity offerings by public companies
  • Leveraged buyouts
  • Private placements
  • Offerings by foreign private issuer

He also represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies in buyout, acquisition, and exit financing transactions and counsels public companies regarding their public reporting obligations and other issues related to public company status. Chuck closely collaborates with colleagues across the firm’s global platform to connect clients with the resources they need to achieve their commercial objectives.

Chuck maintains an active pro bono practice, including advising individuals through the Legal Aid walk-in clinic in Washington, D.C. 

Chuck's representative transactions include advising:

  • The issuer of senior notes in connection with acquisition financing for the acquisition of Hamilton Sundstrand Industrial by The Carlyle Group
  • The issuer of senior notes in connection with acquisition financing for the acquisition of Volvo Rents by Platinum Equity
  • A public global biotechnology company in numerous senior notes offerings in the United States and Europe
  • Kimco Realty Corporation in numerous senior notes offerings
  • Owens-Illinois, Inc. in numerous senior notes offerings by Owens-Brockway Glass Container Inc.
  • The initial purchasers in numerous senior notes offerings in the United States and Europe for The Hertz Corporation
  • The underwriters in the initial public offering of Inovalon Holdings, Inc. listed on NASDAQ
  • The underwriters in the initial public offering of Gogo Inc. listed on NASDAQ, and the initial purchasers in a subsequent offering of convertible senior notes

Bar Qualification

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Education

  • JD, University of Chicago Law School, 2005
  • BA, Amherst College, 2000