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David Eaton

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP 

David M. Eaton is highly experienced in securities offerings and capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and advising public companies and their directors and officers on securities regulatory, corporate governance, stock market, and fiduciary issues. Mr. Eaton has served as issuer’s counsel in many billions of dollars of equity and debt security offerings during his career, and has extensive experience in representing companies issuing stock, bonds and other securities in capital-raising and other transactions. His knowledge encompasses a wide variety of offering methods, security types and transaction structures, including: SEC-registered initial and follow-on public offerings, Rule 144A and traditional private placements; common stock, secured and unsecured corporate bonds, trust preferred or “capital” securities and other instruments; and “shelf” registrations, “at-the-market” equity offerings, balance sheet liability management transactions such as tender and exchange offers and other transactions. He also has a significant background in representing public and private buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions.

Complementing his transactional practice, Mr. Eaton is a regular counselor to companies of all sizes and across industries on the corporate and securities law aspects of being a public company. He routinely advises and assists boards and management in areas such as: corporate governance and fiduciary duties; SEC reporting and public disclosure; insider trading, Rule 144 and Section 16 compliance; proxy statements; stock market listing standard compliance; Sarbanes-Oxley matters; and the securities law aspects of executive and employee compensation and benefits.

Mr. Eaton has been named as one of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of Securities and Capital Markets Law. He was also recognized as a 2019 “Atlanta Lawyer of the Year” in the area of Securities and Capital Markets Law by The Best Lawyers in America®. Mr. Eaton has been recommended by Legal 500 US for Capital Markets–Debt Offerings and Mergers & Acquisitions. He has also been named in the “Big Deals” column of the American Lawyer and as a top “Dealmaker” by the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

In addition, he has been recognized as a Georgia “Super Lawyer” in the areas of Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions and Business/Corporate by Super Lawyers magazine. In 2013 and 2014, Mr. Eaton was recognized by Georgia Trend magazine as a ‘Legal Elite’ in the area of corporate bonds. He is a frequent speaker on securities law topics.

Experience:

  • Served as securities counsel to Internet Security Systems Inc. in connection with its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM.
  • Represented Aaron’s Inc. a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, residential and office furniture, household appliances and accessories, in the sale of its corporate furnishings division to CORT Business Services Corporation for approximately $76 million.
  • Represented AGL Resources Inc. in its SEC-registered public offering of $300 million principal amount of 5.25% senior notes due 2019. The offering closed in August 2009. AGL Resources Inc. is a Fortune 1000 energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas, and is the parent company of Atlanta Gas Light.
  • Represented fulfillment and logistics provider Innotrac Corporation in its initial public offering of its common stock, including its pre-IPO corporate reorganization, as well as its follow-on public stock offering.
  • Represented Interface Inc. in its multi-faceted debt refinancing transaction that involved a Rule 144A private offering (and subsequent SEC-registered exchange offer) of $150 million of Interface’s 11.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2013; a concurrent tender offer for the over $140 million outstanding of its publicly held 10.375% Senior Notes due 2010, and related consent solicitation to amend the underlying indenture; and prefatory amendments of its $150 million credit facility with a four-bank syndicate to permit the refinancing transactions. Interface Inc. is the worldwide leader in the design, production and sales of modular carpet, and a leading manufacturer, marketer and servicer of select other floor covering products.
  • Advised Delta Air Lines as issuer’s counsel in a series of debt security financings totaling $3.5 billion since September 2009, including: $750 million Rule 144A Senior Secured Notes offering (September 2009); $600 million Rule 144A Senior Second Lien Notes offering (September 2009); and five SEC-registered public debt offerings structured as Pass Through Trust Certificates (enhanced equipment trust certificates, or EETCs, a form of debt security secured by aircraft) of $689 million (November 2009), $450 million (July 2010), $474 million (November 2010), $235 million (February 2011),and $292 million (March 2011).
  • Represented AGL Resources Inc., a Fortune 1000 energy services holding company and parent company of Atlanta Gas Light, in an underwritten public offering of $125 million in senior notes. The offering was a “reopening” of an existing series of AGL bonds.
  • Advised Reynolds American Inc. on corporate law issues in connection with the $2.6 billion business combination of the U.S. assets, liabilities and operations of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation with Reynolds American’s cigarette manufacturing subsidiary, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
  • Represented Reynolds American Inc., holding company for tobacco manufacturers R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and American Snuff Company, LLC, in its SEC-registered offering of $1.55 billion in three new series of secured notes. Simultaneously represented company in resyndication of its $550 million senior secured revolving credit facility.
  • Represented Certegy Inc., a major publicly held credit card and check verification company, in its $4.5 billion merger with Fidelity National Information Services Inc. and related special dividend to shareholders. The firm also advised the company on issues regarding executive compensation and employee benefits matters relating to the merger.
  • Represented Cypress Communications, Inc., a publicly held telecommunications company, and its board in connection with the private auction and ultimate sale of the company.

Education:

  • Emory University School of Law, J.D. (1995)
  • Trinity University, B.A., English and Political Science (1992)

Admissions:

  • New York (1996)
  • California (2017)
  • Georgia (1998)

Clerkships:

  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York – Honorable Howard G. Munson

Cost

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