Radoslaw Michalak

Radoslaw Michalak is a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets practice, focusing on representing companies and investment banks on IPOs, follow-on equity offerings, PIPEs, debt offerings, and other strategic financing transactions. His experience spans a range of industries, including technology, life sciences, and natural resources.

With extensive cross-border experience, Radoslaw frequently advises clients in the US and Europe on complex matters that involve reconciling competing regulatory and legal considerations across jurisdictions and areas of substantive regulation.

Radoslaw has extensive expertise advising clients on tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, and other liability management transactions. He structured and led the first-ever LIBOR exchange offer, completed by FFCB* in 2020, and has been involved in some of the most complex and cutting-edge refinancings and restructurings in recent years.

Radoslaw also routinely advises clients on reporting and disclosure obligations, other SEC matters, corporate governance, and general corporate matters.

Radoslaw’s representative experience includes representing and advising:

Equity Offerings

• Companies and investment banks on a wide range of SEC-­registered and unregistered ECM transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, rights issues, PIPES, block trades, accelerated bookbuild offerings and other equity transactions in the US, Europe, Africa, and Asia, including offerings by Sprinklr, HDFC Bank, Alexander Forbes, Remgro, National Bank of Greece, China Nonferrous Mining Corporation, Optimum Coal, Delta Lloyd, Gold Fields, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, NN Group, People's Insurance Company of China Limited, New China Life Insurance, lndiabulls, and others*

Debt Offerings

• Clients on all types of DCM transactions, including SEC­-registered, Rule 144A, 4(a)(2), 3(a)(2), Reg S and other offerings by issuers including Airbus, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Roche, Nestle, Under Armour, British American Tobacco, Teladoc, Bandwidth, Brooklyn Union Gas, Colonial Gas, Pioneer Energy, Rio Tinto, Bacardi, Naspers, Prosus, Reliance Industries, Volvo, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Emirate of Abu Dhabi, SEB, BBVA, Novo Banco, AEGON, Worldpay, Diageo, lnovyn, Maersk, Sasol, Illinois Tool Works, lndiabulls, Symbion, and others*

Liability Management Transactions

• Clients on more than 100 tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and other liability management transactions, including some of the most complex and cutting-edge refinancings and restructurings in the US and Europe in recent years by issuers such as Comcast, Farm Credit Funding Corporation, GE, SAS Miller, Phillips, ArcelorMittal, Rio Tinto, General Electric, Novo Banco, British American Tobacco, Hamburg Commercial Bank, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, AngloGold Ashanti, CRH, Roche, Gold Fields, Delhaize Group, eDreams ODIGEO, Beam Suntory, National Bank of Greece, Ahold Delhaize, and Colonial Gas*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Radoslaw practiced at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, where he was based in the New York and London offices.

Radoslaw’s publications include:

• Co-Author, “Bond offerings and liability management exercises by sovereign and quasi-sovereign issuers,” The International Capital Markets Handbook, 2019
• Co-Author, “New SEC guidance for shortened debt tender offers: Implications for European liability management transactions,” The International Capital Markets Handbook, 2016