Bauerschmidt, Joseph E.

Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Languages

• English

Lawyer Overview

Joe Bauerschmidt has more than 15 years of capital markets experience, spanning more than 250 deals. His principal focus has been on securities offerings in the public and private capital markets representing leading international investment banks as well as corporate issuers.

Joe spent the first part of his career practicing on Wall Street, where he completed more than 40 SEC-registered offerings and many high-yield debt offerings and refinancings. Since coming to Asia in 1997, he has worked on nearly one dozen proposed and completed NASDAQ IPOs and more than 40 complex high-yield financings.

Joe has advised issuers and underwriters in structuring and negotiating high-yield bonds throughout Asia in Indonesia, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Vietnam as well as in Mexico, Canada, and the United States. He represented the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on its maiden sovereign bond offering, Finance Asia's bond deal of the year for 2007.

Joe regularly advised oil and gas and oil field service companies on Wall Street and since coming to Asia has advised on issues such as FCPA, AML, and OFAC as well as on securities and corporate governance matters.

He also handles banking sector deals, having worked on more than 30 capital markets offerings for financial institutions, including the representation of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited in its US$2.18 billion upper tier II subordinated debt offerings, Finance Asia's deal of the year for 2001.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Energy
• Energy Finance
• M&A Transactions

Representative Cases

• ABN AMRO, Citi, Deutsche Bank, DSP Merrill Lynch and SBI Capital serve as lead managers in $1.1 billion rights offering by Hindalco Industries Limited , (2009)
• Bank of New York Mellon acts as trustee in S$225 million Reg S offering by CapitaCommercial Trust
• BNP Paribas underwrites S$620 million rights issue by K-REIT Asia, managed by K-REIT Asia Management Limited
• Citibank acts as trustee in $800 million Rule 144A and Reg S offering by subsidiary of Incitec Pivot Limited , (2010)
• City Telecom announces $89 million tender offer , (2009)
• City Telecom announces completion of US$51 million tender offer for notes , (2009)
• DB Trustees Hong Kong acts as trustee in $100 million Rule 144A and Reg S offering by Vincom Joint Stock Company , (2010)
• DBS Bank, Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse complete S$337 million rights issue by Starhill Global REIT and Manager, YTL Pacific Star REIT Management Limited
• Deustche Bank Trust Company completes exchange offer of $238 million of 11% Guaranteed Senior Secured Notes by PT Davomas Abadi subsidiary, Davomas International Finance Company in landmark Indonesian Court sponsored plan of composition
• Deutsche Bank Trust Company completes $100 million of 5.625% Convertible Bonds of First Resources Limited
• Greentown China Holdings announces tender offer and consent solicitation , (2009)
• Mandra Forestry Bondholders Committee completes private Exchange Offer of Senior Notes with Sino Forest Corporation , (2010)
• Temasek Holdings exercises option to place, and invests in, US$900 million of 5.75% Cumulative Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock of Chesapeake Energy , (2010)
• Temasek Holdings purchases $500 million of 5.75% Cumulative Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock in private placement by Chesapeake Energy , (2010)
• Temasek Holdings subsidiary completes CAD$310 million subscription of 5% Senior Secured Convertible Bonds issued by Niko Resources Limited , (2010)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Closely Held Businesses, Corporate Governance, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Dissolution, Formation & Business Planning, Franchising, Joint Ventures, Limited Liability Companies, Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures, Non-profit & Tax-exempt Organizations, Partnerships, Reorganizations, Shareholders' Rights, Trade Associations

Bar Admissions

• Hong Kong
• New York

Education

• U of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• U of Notre Dame

Published Works

• Notre Dame Law Review, 1990

Address

3 Church Street
#14-02 Samsung Hub 04948, Singapore

Phones

65.6233.5533 (Business Phone)
65.9118.0022 (Mobile Phone)

Faxes

65.6536.3939 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com