Overview
Marc Leong is an associate in Mayer Brown’s New York office and a member of the Capital Markets practice.
Marc represents both issuers and underwriters in a range of public and private offerings of debt, equity and hybrid securities, including investment grade and high-yield debt, follow-on equity offerings (underwritten and registered direct), PIPE transactions involving common stock, and subscription rights and warrants issuances. Marc’s experience includes the management of registered and unregistered debt offerings; the setup, maintenance, operation of and issuances under covered bond, medium-term note, structured note and certificate of deposit programs; and liability management and exchange transactions. Marc has also advised public companies on securities law reporting obligations, stock exchange listing requirements and the securities laws aspects of public mergers and acquisitions activity, as well as general corporate governance matters.
Experience
- Counsel to the underwriters, led by Scotia Capital (USA) Inc., in The Bank of Nova Scotia’s bail-inable senior notes, limited recourse capital notes and covered bond offerings.
- Counsel to Marex Group plc in filing its Form F-1 for the company’s first-ever issuance of investment-grade benchmark notes in the U.S. via a continuous offering.
- Counsel to Marex Group plc in filing its Form F-3 and subsequent initial issuance of investment-grade benchmark notes.
- Counsel to Marex Group plc re debt securities and SEC matters in its reorganization to Marex Group Limited.
- Counsel to National Bank of Canada in offerings of bail-inable senior notes under NBC’s 3(a)(2) medium-term note program and covered bond offerings.
Education
- Columbia Law School, JD
- University College London, LLB
Admissions
- New York