Jennifer M. Gascoyne

jennifer.gascoyne@lw.com

+44.20.7710.1029

Capital Markets

Profile

Jenna Gascoyne represents issuers, including foreign private issuers, and underwriters on the full spectrum of equity capital markets transactions.

She advises clients across a wide range of industries on capital markets transactions and ongoing representation, including:

Initial public offerings (IPOs)
Secondary and follow-on offerings
Private placements
Public company representation, including ongoing Exchange Act reporting
Corporate governance matters

Drawing on her experience practicing in both the United States and Europe, Jenna devises pragmatic solutions for issuers who seek access to the US markets.

She regularly helps clients navigate the complex, cross-border issues that arise for non-US entities in US-registered offerings.

Jenna previously practiced in the firm’s Chicago office. In law school, she was a member of the Texas International Law Journal.

Experience

Jenna’s experience includes advising:

Issuers

Abcam on its US$180 million IPO of 10,287,000 American depositary shares on Nasdaq
atai Life Sciences in its US$258 million upsized IPO of 15 million common shares
Farfetch on its:
- US$1 billion IPO of 50,880,311 Class A ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange
- Global strategic partnership with Alibaba Group and Richemont to provide luxury brands with enhanced access to the China market and accelerate industry digitization
- US$350 million convertible senior notes offering
Fiverr International on its:
- US$111 million IPO of 5,263,158 ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange
- US$460 million offering of private convertible senior notes
A global hotel search platform in connection with its US$330 million IPO of 30,026,635 American depositary shares representing Class A shares listed on Nasdaq
HeadHunter Group on:
- Its US$253 million IPO of American depositary shares on Nasdaq
- A shareholder’s US$101.3 million public offering of American depositary shares
IHS Towers on its US$378 million IPO of 18 million ordinary shares being offered by IHS Towers
Marex Group plc in its US$292 million IPO of 15,384,615 ordinary shares on Nasdaq
Oatly Group on its US$1.6 billion IPO and Nasdaq listing

Underwriters

The sole underwriter and the sole placement agent on Yandex’s US$1 billion public offering and concurrent private placement
The underwriters on the IPO of MYT Netherlands Parent B.V., parent company of the Mytheresa Group and a leading global luxury fashion e-commerce retailer, on the New York Stock Exchange
The underwriters on the US$1.1 billion IPO and Nasdaq listing of Ozon Holdings, a leading Russian e-commerce platform
Joint global coordinators Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Global Markets, and Berenberg Capital Markets and the joint bookrunners in connection with Jumia’s US$280 million IPO on the New York Stock Exchange
JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley, as joint bookrunners, in La Quinta Holdings’ US$460 million follow-on offering of common stock by Blackstone
Credit Suisse and another underwriter, as joint bookrunners, in the US$350 million IPO of common stock by Performance Food Group and certain selling stockholders
Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, as joint bookrunners, in SeaWorld Entertainment’s US$540 million follow-on offering of common stock by Blackstone
William Blair, Baird, Raymond James, and BMO Capital Markets, as joint bookrunners, in connection with Duluth Holdings’ US$85 million IPO of Class B common stock
Piper Jaffray, William Blair, and Cantor Fitzgerald, as joint bookrunners, in Eagle Pharmaceuticals’ US$57 million IPO of common stock