Jeffrey M Stein (Jeff)

Significant recent matters include:

• Public offerings of $4.0 billion of notes by a transportation company and an aggregate of $2.5 billion of notes, preferred stock, and hybrid securities by a bank holding company
  
  
• Issuer tender offers by two NYSE companies for $12 billion of common stock and accelerated stock repurchase programs by five public companies, aggregating $1.8 billion
  
  
• Representation of a shareholder in a NYSE company in structuring a series of variable pre-paid forward contracts (totaling $1 billion) and a joint venture party in writing a synthetic call on specified joint venture assets (valued at $6 billion)
  
  
• Advising the special committee of the board of directors of a Nasdaq company and the CFO of a NASDAQ company in independent investigations of the companies’ stock option grant practices
  
  
• Serving as an expert witness in cases involving claims against a law firm relating to public offerings of securities, the appropriateness of transactions between a public company and its affiliates, and the adequacy of disclosure in a private placement memorandum