Anderson, Christopher H.

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Languages

• Catalan
• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Chris practices general corporate law, with a primary focus on corporate governance, corporate finance, and federal securities laws. Chris has worked on debt and equity security issuances for a variety of public companies. In addition, he has experience with complex debt offerings, Rule 144 transactions, rights offerings, and tax-exempt financing. He also has worked on M&A transactions involving public mergers and private acquisitions. Chris recently worked on transactions representing FleetPride, Kraft Foods, Orbitz, Xcel Energy, OGE Energy, HNI Corporation, Bridgestone Americas, USG Corporation, and Exide Technologies. During a secondment with Kraft Foods, Chris assisted the company with matters relating to corporate governance, employee benefits, and securities compliance during the company's first full year after spinning off from the Altria Group.

Chris serves as a committee co-chair for the American Cancer Society associate board of ambassadors (Illinois chapter). He is also a member of American Bar Association and the Illinois State Bar Association.

Areas of Practice

• Capital Markets

Representative Cases

• Bridgestone acquires Bandag for $1 billion
• Cardno Limited acquires Emerging Markets Group
• Exide completes rights offering of $91 million of Common Stock
• Federated Department Stores' $17 billion acquisition of May Department Stores is largest U.S. retail deal to date , (2009)
• FPK completes $82.8 million public offering of Common Stock , (2009)
• JPMorgan Chase participates in sale-leaseback of 33 properties
• Kraft Foods issues $500 million of 6.75% Notes in a public offering , (2009)
• Northern States Power (WI) completes $200 million public offering of 6.375% First Mortgage Bonds , (2009)
• Northern States Power completes $300 million public offering of first mortgage bonds
• NTT Data sells subsidiary to Quality Technology Services
• Public Service Company of Colorado completes $600 million public offering of First Mortgage Bonds, underwritten by Goldman, Sachs, Lehman Brothers Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International plc and Scotia Capital (USA) Inc. , (2009)
• USG completes $300 million private placement of Senior Unsecured Notes
• USG completes public offering of $500 million of Senior Notes
• Viking Group sells shares to Minimax in a complex multi-country stock sale, a transaction that will create a combined company with over $1.5 billion in sales and 6,000 employees , (2009)
• Volunteers participate in the 2009-10 Edward J. Lewis II Lawyers in the Classroom Program
• Woodward Governor acquires MPC Products for $383 million , (2009)
• Xcel Energy completes public offering of $395 million of Common Stock , (2009)
• Xcel Energy completes public offering of $400 million of Junior Subordinated Notes , (2009)

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois
• Wisconsin

Education

• Lawrence University
• U of Wisconsin - Madison (Main

Address

77 West Wacker
Chicago, IL 60601-1692

Phones

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