Weil advised the underwriters, led by Jefferies and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, A Stifel Company, as lead managing bookrunners, in the $173 million initial public offering of Jefferson Capital, Inc. The offering consisted of 11,500,000 million shares of common stock at a price of $15 a share, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase 1,500,000 additional shares.  

Founded in 2002, Jefferson Capital is an analytically driven purchaser and manager of charged-off and insolvency consumer accounts with operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Latin America.

The Weil deal team was led by Capital Markets Head Alex Lynch and Capital Markets partner Michael Stein. The deal team also included Capital Markets associates Patrick Motta and Alex Friedman; Banking & Finance partner Gabriel Gregson and counsel Phong Bui; Tax partner Graham Magill and associate Madeline Joerg; Regulatory Transactions partner Marc Schubert and associates Sisi Liu and Bryony Pearson.