About Colleen E. Laduzinski
Practice Areas
- Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Real Estate
Education
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 2004LL.M.
- Major: Taxation
- Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2000J.D.
- Honors: cum laude
- Law Journal: Tulane Maritime Law Journal, Business Editor, Published Author
- Boston University, 1996B.A.
- Major: Economics
- Major: Political Science
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Freeman School of Business, 2000M.B.A.
- Freeman School of BusinessA.B.
Representative Cases
- Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders of GEO Specialty Chemicals completes private purchase of Senior Secured Convertible Notes issued by GEO Specialty Chemicals
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch acts as representative of initial purchasers in offering by Pioneer Drilling Company
- BofA Merrill Lynch; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; and J.P. Morgan complete $2.75 billion bond offering by PepsiCo
- Bombardier issues $500 million of 5.750% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering (2012)
- Burlington Industries acquired by WL Ross through bankruptcy buyout for $615 million (2009)
- Burlington Industries, nation's oldest textile manufacturer, files for bankruptcy (2009)
- Chapter 7 trustee resolves federal tax claims in bankruptcy court litigation (2012)
- Chemtura plan confirmed and bondholders take majority equity stake in reorganized company (2010)
- Chrysler sold to Fiat-led "New Chrysler" after historic court proceedings (2009)
- Citigroup Global Markets, Merrill Lynch, and RBS Securities complete $1.75 billion public offering of Floating Rate and Senior Notes by PepsiCo
- Community Choice Financial completes private placement of Senior Secured Notes and its related acquisition of CheckSmart Financial, CCCS Corporate Holdings and its subsidiaries (2011)
- Continental Airlines and United merge in $8.5 billion all-stock merger of equals (2010)
- Dana Corporation issues stock to Centerbridge Capital Partners (2009)
- Dana Corporation successfully reorganizes in U.S. and U.K. in "Deal of the Year" (2009)
- Dana obtains bankruptcy exit financing (2009)
- Firm helps create nonprofit Images for Hope (2009)
- FLYi Inc. and Independence Air file for bankruptcy with $455 million in debt (2009)
- Frontier Communications issues $500 million of 9.250% Senior Notes due 2021 and completes $500 million tender offer for 8.250% Senior Notes due 2014 and 7.875% Senior Notes due 2015 (2012)
- FTI Consulting issues $400 million of 6 3/4% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and concurrent tender offer and obtains $250 million credit facility (2010)
- Georgia Gulf to merge with commodity chemicals division of PPG Industries in tax advantaged "Reverse Morris Trust" transaction for $2.1 billion (2012)
- Hostess Brands commences bankruptcy proceedings (2012)
- HQ Global Holdings and its affiliates file for chapter 11 involving more than $500 million in debt (2009)
- Industrial Growth Partners sells Breeze Industrial Products (2009)
- Intelligroup acquired by NTT DATA for $199 million (2010)
- Interep National Radio Sales files for bankruptcy (2009)
- International Coal Group acquired by Arch Coal for $3.4 billion (2011)
- International Coal Group completes registered offering for $256.1 million of Common Stock
- International Steel Group acquires Bethlehem Steel assets (2009)
- J.F. Lehman acquires Doss Aviation (2012)
- J.F. Lehman acquires National Response Corporation and affiliated businesses (2012)
- J.P. Morgan, BNP Paribas and UBS underwrite public offering of $2.25 billion of PepsiCo, Inc. Senior Notes; J.P. Morgan and RBS act as dealer managers in concurrent tender offer for up to $500 million of Pepsico's 7.90% Senior Notes (2010)
- Jefferies acts as initial purchaser and underwriter in $1 billion Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and concurrent $50 million public offering by Offshore Group Investment Limited and Vantage Drilling Company (2010)
- Jefferies acts as initial purchaser in $135 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Tempel Steel Company
- Jefferies acts as initial purchaser in $175 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Optima Specialty Steel (2011)
- Jefferies acts as initial purchaser in $180 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering of Senior Secured Notes by HOA Restaurant Group and HOA Finance (2011)
- Jefferies acts as initial purchaser in $280 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering and completes tender offer for 11% Senior Secured Notes (2011)
- Jefferies acts as representative of initial purchasers in $775 million Rule 144A and Regulation S offering by Offshore Group Investment Limited and Vantage Drilling Company (2012)
- Jefferies, BCP Securities, and UBS Limited act as initial purchasers in $150 million offering by Grupo Elektra
- Jefferies, Janney Montgomery Scott, and KeyBanc underwrite $51.2 million public offering of Common Stock by Quaker Chemical Company
- Kaiser Aluminum and twenty of its subsidiaries emerge successfully from chapter 11 protection (2009)
- Kaiser Aluminum sells Queensland Alumina interest to RUSAL Group
- KeyBank finances wind power facility in Idaho (2012)
- Kotak Mahindra completes second ever placement via Institutional Placement Programme (2012)
- Molycorp acquires Neo Material Technologies for CDN$1.3 billion (US$1.26 billion) (2012)
- Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank, as representatives of underwriters, complete $500 million public offering of 0.800% Senior Notes and $750 million of 3.000% Senior Notes by PepsiCo (2011)
- NationsRent, Inc. and its subsidiaries file for chapter 11 in $1.2 billion reorganization of company (2009)
- Nationwide Financial Services issues $600 million of 5.375% Senior Notes in Rule 144A and Regulation S offering (2011)
- Official committee of equity security holders of GSI Group achieves substantial improvement in recovery for existing equity holders (2010)
- Omnicom issues $1 billion of Senior Notes in public offering (2010)
- Qimonda North America and Qimonda Richmond Creditors' Committee appointed (2009)
- SocGen is agent to a syndicate of lenders
- TransDigm Group issues $1.55 billion aggregate principal amount of 7.75% Senior Notes in private offering and additional $50 million aggregate principal amount of 7.75% Senior Notes in follow-on private offering (2011)
- Transpro merges with Modine Manufacturing (2009)
- UBS, Jefferies, Baird, Needham & Company, and Natixis underwrite $77 million IPO by Sequans Communications (2011)
- WHX Corporation files prearranged plan of reorganization (2009)
- Williams Communications Group files for chapter 11 (2009)
- Williams Communications Group involved in reorganization plan
Qualifications
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- New Jersey
- New York
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