Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Languages

• English

Lawyer Overview

Joe Bauerschmidt has more than 15 years of capital markets experience, spanning more than 150 deals. Joe's 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 at the Cravath firm 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, Joe has worked on nearly one dozen proposed and completed Nasdaq IPOs and more than 35 complex high-yield financings.

Joe has been called "an outstanding high-yield player" with "vast experience" in the sector by Chambers Asia (2008) and was ranked in the "Band 1" tier of lawyers by Chambers Asia and Chambers Global in this practice area. He 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. In 2007, Joe's representation of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on its maiden sovereign bond won Finance Asia's sovereign bond deal of the year.

Joe has regularly worked with oil and gas and oil field service companies on Wall Street, including UPR, Columbia Oil & Gas, and Methanex, and since coming to Asia has worked on transactions involving PTT, Petronas, MISC, PetroVietnam, PT Medco, BHP, Enron, Banchak Petroleum, Essar Oil, and SingaporeGas. In addition to his legal qualifications, Joe is a graduate chemical engineer and spent six years in the oil industry with Schlumberger Limited in North America and Europe.

Joe also specializes in banking sector deals, having worked on more than 30 capital markets offerings for financial institutions. Among the more notable Asian transactions were representation of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited in its US$2.18 billion upper tier II subordinated debt offerings, which was named Finance Asia's deal of the year in 2001, and the underwriters of Siam Commercial Bank's US$1.75 billion equity offering in 1999, which was named worldwide deal of the year by Euromoney and worldwide equity deal of the year by IFR and Institutional Investor. Other award winning financial institution deals from Asia in which he participated include offerings by Krung Thai Bank and Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd.

Joe's 1990 Notre Dame Law Review article, "Mother of Mercy — Is this the end of Rico?" — Justice Scalia Invites Constitutional Void-for-Vagueness Challenge to RICO ‘Pattern,’" has been cited by the First, Third, Sixth, and Seventh Circuits Courts of Appeal. He is a regular lecturer on securities offerings and related topics, including appearing on InvestoRegulation's annual panel alongside SEC staff members and other leading Hong Kong private practitioners. He also has appeared on IFLR's securities law panel in Hong Kong.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Rights Offering , (2008)

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 Notre Dame

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