Profile
Laurie L. Green focuses her practice on a wide range of corporate and securities matters, with an emphasis on advising clients in public offerings, private placements, M&A transactions, periodic reporting and compliance matters, and proxy contests. Her experience also includes advising boards of directors and their committees on disclosure, governance and compliance matters arising out of SEC regulations, stock exchange rules and corporate laws.
Before entering private practice, Laurie spent 11 years at the SEC and served as Special Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance in Washington, D.C., in its Office of Mergers and Acquisitions.
Concentrations
- Corporate governance
- Public companies and securities
- Corporate services
Capabilities
Experience
- Issuer's Counsel in a $350 million senior note offering.°
- Issuer's Counsel in a $149.5 million convertible senior note offering.°
- Issuer's Counsel for companies conducting distressed debt restructurings and exchange offers for outstanding debt securities, including registered exchange offer for over $630 million of outstanding notes.°
- Issuer's Counsel in connection with its $4.3 billion acquisition by a Brazilian private equity fund.°
- Issuer's Counsel for companies conducting cash tender offers for outstanding debt securities, including cash offers for outstanding notes.°
- Issuer's Counsel for special purpose acquisition companies, including the initial public offering and acquisition of target companies.°
- Bidder's Counsel for a multinational pharmaceutical company, in its cross-border tender offer for $394 million of outstanding securities of the target.°
- Bidder's Counsel for a Japanese corporation in its tender offer for $37 million of outstanding securities of the target.°
- Issuer's Counsel for going private transaction.°
- Represented various public companies with the preparation and filing of universal shelf registration statements and automatic shelf registration statements.°
°The above representations were handled by Ms. Green prior to her joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
Recognition & Leadership
- Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Securities / Capital Markets Law, 2019-2024; Securities Regulation, 2022-2024
- Selected, Fort Lauderdale Illustrated, "Top Lawyers," 2020-2023
- Securities / Capital Markets Law, 2020-2023
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2020
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Florida Super Lawyers, 2011-2018
- Selected, Top Dealmaker Award, Corporate Finance, Daily Business Review, 2011
- Selected, Top Dealmaker Award Finalist, Corporate Finance, Daily Business Review, 2010
- Selected, Top Dealmaker Award Finalist, Corporate Finance, Daily Business Review; 2007
- Women Executive Leadership, Board of Directors, 2012-2016
- Member, The Florida Bar
- Business Law Section
- Former Chair, Corporations, Securities and Financial Services Committee
Credentials
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J.D., cum laude, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
- Business Editor, Nova Law Review, 1987-1988
- B.S., cum laude, University of Central Florida
- Florida