Aashim Usgaonkar

About Aashim Usgaonkar

Aashim is a senior associate in our New York office who primarily advises issuers and underwriters on a wide range of public and private securities offerings. His experience includes working on IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, and debt offerings across various industries. Prior to joining Freshfields, Aashim worked at a New York-based law firm where he assisted issuers and banks with public and private offerings of investment-grade and high-yield bonds and equity-linked securities, mergers and acquisitions, general public company matters and governance matters such as succession planning, proxy contests, and the development of defensive profiles.

Recent work

• TriNet on its tender offer, share repurchase, and related financing transactions, including its $400 million private offering of senior notes.
• EVgo on its $125 million follow-on equity offering.
• Verlinvest in connection with a comprehensive financing by Oatly Group, consisting of:
  • the issuance of $300 million convertible senior PIK notes;
  • entry into a new $130 million term loan B credit facility;
  • and an amended sustainable revolving credit facility
• Comcast and NBCUniversal in connection with their $15 billion exchange offers of Comcast senior notes for 16 series of Comcast's and three series of NBCUniversal's outstanding notes*
• BuzzFeed on its sale of Complex Networks and related sub-brands to Commerce Media Holdings.
• OSN on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Anghami, Inc.
• Corteva on its agreement with Starboard Value and its affiliates, pursuant to which three new independent directors proposed by Starboard joined Corteva's Board of Directors*
• 3D Systems in a series of privately negotiated agreements to repurchase approximately $135 million aggregate principal amount of its zero-coupon senior notes from holders at a 26% discount to par
• Weber on its $250 million IPO and listing on Nasdaq
• The underwriters in connection with
  • State Street's $1.75 billion fixed-to-floating rate senior notes offering*
  • Stewart Information Services Corporation's $115 million primary common stock offering*
  • Core & Main's $520 million registered secondary common stock offering*
  • Hewlett Packard's $2.25 billion registered notes offering
• The initial purchasers, joint lead arrangers, or bookrunners, as applicable in connection with
  • MoneyGram's $415 million notes offering and $432.5 million credit agreement
  • Valvoline's $400 million and $600 million high-yield senior notes offerings*
  • Uniti Group's $1.11 billion and $700 million high-yield senior notes offerings, as well as its concurrent $1.1 billion cash tender offer and consent solicitation*
• PG&E Corporation on its tri-tranche equity offering, comprising:
  • a $4.02 billion registered offering of common stock;
  • a $3.25 billion private placement of common stock;
  • a $1.45 billion registered offering of equity units with a related $523 million private placement of forward stock purchase contracts to backstop the underwriters' "greenshoe" options in the registered offerings*
• Occidental Petroleum on its:
  • $2 billion registered senior notes offering
  • $2 billion cash tender offer and consent solicitation
  • $3 billion registered senior notes offering and related tender offer
• Hasbro on its
  • $4 billion acquisition of Entertainment One*
  • $875 million registered common stock offering*
  • $2.38 billion registered notes offering*
• Johnson & Johnson on its
  • acquisition of Ci:z Holdings*;
  • $2.8 billion sale to Fortive Corporation of J&J's advanced sterilization products business
  • $2.1 billion sale to Platinum Equity of J&J's LifeScan business*
• First Solar in connection with its $596 million registered secondary common stock offering and listing on Nasdaq
• Scientific Games on its sale of a 34.9% stake to institutional investors, including Caledonia
• Rogers Communications on its $750 million registered MJDS floating rate senior notes offering*
• AmerisourceBergen on its acquisition of H.D. Smith*
• Gannett Holdings on its $400 million high-yield senior secured notes offering*
• Swvl on its SPAC combination with Queen's Gambit Growth Capital*

*Completed prior to joining Freshfields US LLP