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Kim de Glossop

Partner
Kim de Glossop
Silicon Valley
+1 650 752 3290

Kim de Glossop is a partner in the firm’s Business Law department and a member of its Technology and Life Sciences groups. He specializes in all areas of corporate and securities laws, with a primary focus on capital markets transactions. He joined Goodwin in 2019.

Prior to joining Goodwin, Kim was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York and Palo Alto, where he primarily advised clients on a range of capital markets transactions, including high yield, investment-grade and convertible debt offerings, initial public offerings and other equity offerings, tender offers, and PIPE transactions.

Experience

Convertible Debt Offerings

Underwriters in:

  • Lyft’s $650 million convertible debt offering
  • $2.3 billion of convertible debt offerings by Snap
  • $1.65 billion of convertible debt offerings by RingCentral
  • Rapid7’s $525 million convertible debt offering
  • Box’s $345 million convertible debt offering
  • PagerDuty’s $250 million convertible debt offering
  • Cardlytics’ $230 million convertible debt offering
  • Five9’s $650 million convertible debt offering
  • Varonis Systems’ $253 million convertible debt offering
  • K12’s $420 million convertible debt offering
  • 2U’s $330 million convertible debt offering
  • Tesla’s $980 million convertible debt offering*
  • Square’s $862.5 million convertible debt offering*

Issuers:

  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in its $1.0 billion convertible debt offering
  • Wayfair in $3.0 billion of convertible debt offerings
  • Okta in $2.2 billion of convertible debt offerings
  • TPI Composites in its $132.5 million convertible debt offering
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical in a $241.5 million convertible debt offering
  • Limelight Networks in its $125 million convertible debt offering
  • Esperion Therapeutics in its $280 million convertible debt offering
  • WisdomTree in $305 million of convertible debt offerings
  • Blackstone Mortgage Trust in $350 million of convertible debt offerings*

Investment Grade and High Yield Debt Offerings

Underwriters in:

  • Royalty Pharma’s $1.3 billion investment grade debt offering
  • Lions Gate’s $550 million high yield debt offering*
  • $34 billion of investment-grade debt offerings by Oracle*
  • Tesla’s inaugural $1.8 billion high yield debt offering*
  • Air Lease’s $600 million investment grade debt offering*
  • Perrigo’s $2.3 billion investment-grade debt offering in connection with its $8.6 billion acquisition of Elan*

Issuers:

  • Medical Properties Trust in a $1.3 billion high yield debt offering
  • Hub International in a $1.3 billion high yield debt offering*
  • MultiPlan in a $1.3 Billion senior PIK toggle notes offering*
  • Associated Materials in a $675 million senior secured notes offering*
  • Sealed Air in its €400 million inaugural euro notes offering*
  • ClubCorp in a $350 million high yield debt offering*
  • Minsur in its $450 million inaugural high yield debt offering*

IPOS and Equity Offerings

Underwriters in:

  • Bright Health Group’s $924 million initial public offering
  • Qualtrics’ $2.1 billion initial public offering and concurrent private placement
  • Root’s $1.1 billion initial public offering and concurrent private placement
  • $2.5 billion of equity offerings by Tesla*
  • Sonos’ initial public offering*

Issuers:

  • Marqeta in its $1.4 billion initial public offering
  • AbCellera in its $555 million initial public offering
  • Twilio in $2.4 billion of equity offerings
  • Blackstone Mortgage Trust in $2 billion of equity offerings, including in connection with its acquisition of a $4.6 billion portfolio of mortgage loans from GE Capital*
  • Pinnacle Foods in its $667 million initial public offering and $1.3 billion of secondary offerings*

PIPE Transactions

  • Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers in a $500 million investment by Starboard Value
  • TPI Composites in a $350 million investment by Oaktree Capital
  • Silver Lake Partners in its $1 billion investment in Symantec*
  • Global Eagle Entertainment in a $150 million investment by Searchlight Capital Partners*
  • MDC Partners in a $95 million investment by the Merchant Banking Division of Goldman Sachs

M&A and Venture Financings

  • Control4 in its $680 million sale to SnapAV
  • Airbnb in a $1 billion preferred stock financing*
  • Dell in its $67 billion acquisition of EMC*

*Denotes experience prior to joining Goodwin.

Credentials

Education

LLM2011

Fordham University School of Law

(cum laude)

LLM2007

University of Southampton

(Merit)

LLB2003

University of Essex

Admissions

Bars

  • California
  • New York

Recognition & Awards

Kim has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch for his work in Corporate Law 2022. 

Kim was named to The Best Lawyers in America 2021: Ones to Watch.