Elisabeth Cappuyns represents clients in corporate transactions with a focus on the energy sector. These clients include companies, investment banks and private investment funds, and the transactions comprise capital markets transactions (both private placements and registered offerings), financings and private equity transactions. Ms. Cappuyns also advises on general corporate and securities compliance matters and is involved in the firm’s climate change initiative.
Ms. Cappuyns has worked on various transactions, including the following recent representations:
- Advising investment banks in several equity private placements in the energy sector, including securities offerings by oil, gas and CBM (coalbed methane) companies
- Advising underwriters in the IPOs of a zinc recycling company and a natural gas company
- Advising management teams and underwriters in IPOs of SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies)
- Advising government-owned entities in Abu Dhabi in private equity and M&A transactions, including investments in a major private equity firm and a major real estate company, and related corporate, cross-border and structuring issues
- Advising an entertainment company in a joint venture to establish a new children’s network
- Advising an entertainment company in a cross-border M&A transaction with a U.K. listed company
- Advising a Canadian CBM company on general corporate and financing matters
- Advising project managers in a project to add scrubbers to the facilities of a coal-fired electric company
- Advising underwriters in registered debt securities offerings by an oil and gas company
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Ms. Cappuyns was an associate at two other law firms, in New York and in London.
Ms. Cappuyns received her B.A. in 1995 from Drew University and her J.D. in 1998 from Columbia Law School. She is a member of the New York Bar.