Cassie Myhro focuses her practice on corporate transactional matters for public and private companies, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, antitrust compliance and general corporate counseling. Cassie has represented both buyers and sellers in stock- and asset-based transactions. These transactions have included mergers, management buyouts and leveraged transactions. She routinely represents issuers in public debt and hybrid capital securities offerings and has also assisted clients in establishing medium-term note and bank note programs. Cassie has significant experience in assisting clients with analyzing and preparing pre-transaction filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.

Representative transactions in which Cassie has counseled clients include:

Securities Offerings

• $4.25 billion of preferred purchase securities for Wells Fargo & Company
• $4 billion of enhanced trust preferred securities for Wells Fargo & Company
• $6 billion of fixed and floating rate notes guaranteed under the FDIC's Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program for Wells Fargo & Company
• $6.75 billion of fixed and floating rate notes for Target Corporation

M&A Transactions

• Merger transactions for several private equity firms
• Restructuring transactions for a number of private companies
• Carlson Companies, Inc. in its sale of a business unit
• Aurafin LLC in its sale of assets to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
• SurModics, Inc. in its acquisition of Brookwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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