Guy Cooper

Experience Highlights

• Advised each of Avance Gas Holdings Ltd (AVANCE:Oslo), BW LPG Limited (BWLPG:Oslo) and Odfjell Drilling Ltd (ODL:Oslo) on their IPOs on the Oslo Stock Exchange, raising US$250 million, US$575 million and US$400 million respectively.
• Advised Kosmos Energy Ltd. (NYSE:KOS) and Travelport Worldwide Limited (NYSE:TVPT) in relation to US$199.5 million and US$112 million secondary offerings of their shares.
• Advised SeaCube Container Leasing Ltd. (NYSE:BOX) on its IPO on the NYSE which raised approx. US$95 million and subsequent acquisition by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan by way of amalgamation for US$470 million.
• Advised the buying consortium in their privatisation of Floatel International Ltd. (FLOAT:Oslo).
• Advised The Milestone Aviation Group Limited, the global leader in helicopter leasing, on its establishment, private equity funding and later sale to GE for US$1.775 billion, as well as numerous secured and unsecured bank financings and bond offerings.
• Advised GoodBulk Ltd. on its US$100 million private placement of new shares and listing on the Norwegian OTC market.
• Advised in the restructuring of Eitzen Chemical ASA into Team Tankers International Ltd (TEAM:Oslo), including a debt for equity swap and listing on the Oslo Stock Exchange.
• Advised BW Offshore Limited (BWO:Oslo) on its restructuring, including a US$100 million rights offering, numerous credit facility amendments and amendments to its unsecured bonds.
• Advised BW LPG Limited on its offer of cash and consideration shares in exchange for all the shares of Aurora LPG Holding ASA.
• Advised Stolt-Nielsen Limited (SNI:Oslo) and its lending banks on numerous senior unsecured bond offerings and bank facilities.
• Advised DNB and Nordea on the amendment to the US$450 million and US$200 million facilities for Avance Gas Holdings Ltd.
• Advised SELLAS Life Sciences Group Ltd, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company on its continuation to Bermuda.

Professional Background

• Conyers Dill & Pearman, Bermuda, 2009 – Present
• Reed Smith LLP, Abu Dhabi, 2007 – 2009
• Conyers Dill & Pearman, Bermuda and Dubai, 2003 – 2007

Education

• The College of Law, Guilford, UK, PgDL, LPC 2002
• The University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne, B.A. (Hons) Economics & Geography, 1999
• Charterhouse School, UK, 1996

Bar Admissions

• England & Wales, Solicitor, 2008 (not currently practising)
• Bermuda, 2000

Awards & Accolades

• Recognised in the 2020 edition (and 2018) of Legal 500 Caribbean (banking, finance and capital markets)
• Recognised in the 2020 edition (and since 2015) of Legal 500 Caribbean (corporate and commercial)
• Recognised in the 2020 edition (and since 2013) of the IFLR1000 (financial and corporate)

Associations

• Member, International Bar Association
• Former Commissioned Officer in the Bermuda Regiment

Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions – Autumn 2019

Corporate Digest: Notable Deals and Transactions - Spring 2019

Global IPO Report – July 2018

Norway Practice Bulletin – 2018, May 2018

2017 Global Corporate Year in Review, January 2018

Norway Practice Bulletin – 2017, April 2017

Bermuda Corporate Practice Group 2016 Year in Review, January 2017