Anthony J. Renzi Jr.

Tony has over 30 years of experience advising international clients with respect to all aspects of cross border capital markets and M&A transactions.

He provides commercially focused, user-friendly advice that management teams can use to make important business decisions. His clients value his insight into market trends and the political and commercial consequences of their decisions.

Based in Washington, D.C., Tony advises international clients, with a particular focus on Scandinavia, Asia and emerging markets, regarding structuring, documenting and closing cross-border capital markets, M&A and joint venture transactions. He regularly assists non-U.S. issuers, investment banks and professional investors in navigating the laws governing private and public securities offerings and SEC reporting obligations in the United States.

He provides comprehensive legal advice to clients raising capital in U.S. private and public markets (including IPOs), listing their shares on U.S. stock exchanges, negotiating, documenting and closing complex international M&A and business combinations, and structuring and implementing international capital allocation strategies. He is known for integrating material U.S. legal, commercial and political considerations into his clients’ business planning.

He represents clients in many different industries, including the shipping, offshore services and oil and gas sectors, advising them in a wide variety of business-critical transactions. He is a recognized leader in his practice area who regularly speaks at maritime conferences and publishes articles about U.S. and cross-border securities law topics.

Experience

• Represented a client in the $2 billion sale of LNG infrastructure and transport vessels to a joint venture company in which the client was also an investor. The transaction was extremely complex, requiring the refinancing or lease-back of vessels in numerous jurisdictions. As a result of the transaction, the client raised capital, entered into long-term charters for assets that are critical to its operations and became a significant shareholder in a key LNG infrastructure company.
• Represented Singapore-based Hafnia Limited in its secondary listing on the NYSE, including SEC review and comments, U.S. securities law compliance, NYSE and corporate governance compliance, trading and settlement through the Depository Trust Company, change of transfer agent and ongoing multijurisdictional regulatory compliance.
• Represented a start-up shipping company with respect to raising capital, reorganizing its operations and moving its domicile, allowing it to acquire its first vessel and commence operations. Helped the company navigate U.S. securities laws and the Delaware and Marshall Islands laws that applied to the re-domiciliation.
• Represented well-known institutional investors, including two sovereign wealth funds and the BW Group in allocating and acquiring tens of billions of dollars in private and public interests globally, advising them on disclosure obligations and securities law and regulatory considerations and working with portfolio managers and senior executives to establish procedures to identify and manage the investments.
• Represented Barclays as the sole underwriter in connection with the $230 million IPO of an emerging markets SPAC. The transaction was complicated because it went to market at the same time the SEC was adopting new rules to establish more stringent regulation of SPAC IPOs and De-SPAC mergers.
• Represented Hafnia Limited in all aspects of move from Bermuda to Singapore via a Bermuda Scheme of Arrangement process, ensuring compliance with U.S. securities laws and NYSE listing obligations and coordinating with various parties to ensure the transaction also complied with Bermuda, Singapore and Norwegian.