Profilo
Raffael Fiumara has wide-ranging corporate, capital markets, securities, and financing experience across over a decade in both private practice and in-house roles. Raffael focuses his practice on public and private equity and debt capital markets, SEC and stock exchange reporting, corporate governance and compliance matters, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters across a broad array of industries, including Life Sciences, FinTech and Financial Services, Technology, Media, Industrials, Consumer, Energy and Natural Resources.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig, Raffael served as vice president and senior counsel at Goldman Sachs for the Investment Banking Division, providing legal, policy, reputational, transactional and commercial advice on all aspects of the Investment Banking business.
Concentrations
- Public and private equity and debt capital markets, including IPOs and follow-on equity offerings, private placements, PIPEs, convertible notes, investment grade and high yield debt, and exchange offers
- SEC and stock exchange reporting, corporate governance, and compliance obligations for both domestic and foreign private issuers
- Corporate Finance
- Continuation Funds
- Mergers and acquisitions
- SPACs
Competenze
Esperienze Professionali - Attività Accademiche
- Representation of investment banks acting as placement agent on equity private placements
- Represented a global real estate company in connection with a senior secured bond financing
- Represented JEPLAN, Inc., a Japanese PET chemical recycling technology company, in connection with the proposed business combination with AP Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company, and expected listing on the New York Stock exchange
- Represented InspireMD, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSPR) in its private placement offering of common stock and warrants for up to $113.6 million in proceeds
- Represented US Data Mining Group, Inc. dba US Bitcoin Corp., a builder and strategic operator of Bitcoin mining centers across the United States, in an all-stock merger of equals with Hut 8 Mining Corp. (Nasdaq: HUT) (TSX: HUT), a large, innovation-focused digital asset mining pioneer and high performance computing infrastructure provider
- Across private practice and in-house roles, Raffael has experience on over a thousand transactions across all industries and products, including:
- $2 billion initial public offering of a financial technology company °
- $500 million + initial public offering of a biotechnology company°
- $500 million + private placement of a private biotechnology company°
- $1.5 billion + acquisition financing (including equity and convertible debt) of a publicly-traded industrial company°
- $15 billion+ SPAC business combination with a biotechnology company°
- $3 billion+ SPAC business combination with a technology company°
- $2.5 billion+ SPAC business combination with an alternative energy company°
- $5 billion + investment grade bond offering of a consumer services technology company
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Fiumara prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, P.A.
- Vice President and Senior Counsel, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, 2016-2022
Riconoscimenti e Premi
- Member, American Bar Association
Formazione
- Laurea magistrale in Giurisprudenza, Harvard Law School
- Diploma di maturità, magna cum laude, New York University
- Florida
- New York