Stuart Morrissy is counsel in the firm’s Capital Markets practice. He has routinely represented major investment banks and issuers in connection with private placement transactions, including high yield debt and convertible notes offerings and PIPE ("Private-Investment-in-Public-Equity") transactions, as well as in connection with a wide range of registered public offerings, including initial public offerings and debt and equity offerings, with a recent focus on exchange offers, debt and equity tender offers, and consent solicitations in connection with liability management transactions. He also has significant familiarity with securities law issues arising in the context of both out-of-court restructurings and debtor restructurings under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, most recently having been on the team which advised Vertis, Inc. in its successful reorganization and merger with American Color Graphics (in the first ever “double prepack merger") while in bankruptcy.
Stuart also has extensive experience living and working in Japan. Most recently, he was seconded from Weil from May 2007 through June 2008 to serve in Osaka, Japan as senior legal counsel at the global headquarters of Panasonic Corporation, one of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers in the world. At Panasonic, Stuart represented the company in many aspects of international law, including general commercial contract and litigation matters. He coordinated the activities of outside counsel in Europe and the United States, and lectured extensively on various aspects of American commercial law.
Stuart received a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 2000 and a B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1994, where he majored in Japanese studies and political science.