Capital Markets

Day Pitney's Capital Markets team has served as counsel to corporate issuers and investment banks in a variety of public and private securities offerings. We regularly advise our clients on capital markets transactions in various industries. Our practice is integrated with other relevant practice areas (such as tax, employee benefits and energy). We seek to provide our clients with dedicated, responsive, practical and efficient legal work.

Our team has extensive experience and sophistication in capital markets transactions, including the following:

• Universal shelf registrations and takedowns for both WKSI and non-WKSI issuers
• Warrant offerings
• Trust preferred offerings
• Initial public offerings
• Rule 144A equity and debt offerings
• Private placements

The value of our experience, skills and resources is best exemplified through the following representative transactions:

• Represented Valley National Bancorp in connection with its automatic shelf registration statement covering common stock, preferred stock, warrants and units.
• Represented Valley National Bancorp in connection with its automatic shelf registration statement for resale of up to $345 million of preferred stock, warrants and common stock underlying warrants.
• Represented Valley National Bancorp in connection with its automatic shelf registration statement for resale of up to $15.4 million of common stock.
• Represented First Commonwealth Financial Corporation in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $300 million of securities.
• Represented First Commonwealth Financial Corporation in connection with its shelf registration statement covering common stock.
• Represented Hudson Valley Holding Corporation in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $120 million of securities.
• Represented Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc., in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $100 million of securities.
• Represented Virtus Investment Partners, Inc., in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $100 million of securities and its sale of 1,724,126 shares of common stock offered by selling shareholders. 
• Represented Central Vermont Public Service Corporation in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $62.3 million of common stock.
• Represented Central Vermont Public Service Corporation in connection with its shelf registration statement for up to $55 million of common stock.
• Represented Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corp. in connection with its shelf registration statement for resale of up to $33 million of preferred stock, warrants and common stock underlying warrants by selling shareholder.
• Represented 1st Constitution Bancorp in connection with its shelf registration statement for resale of warrants and common stock underlying warrants by selling shareholder.
• Represented Community Partners Bancorp in connection with its shelf registration statement for resale of warrants and common stock underlying warrants by selling shareholder.
• Represented The Connecticut Bank and Trust Company in connection with its shelf registration statement for resale of warrants and common stock underlying warrants by selling shareholder.
• Represented First Commonwealth Financial Corp. in connection with its $115 million public offering of common stock.
• Represented Valley National Bancorp in connection with a $73.1 million at-the-market public offering of common stock.
• Represented Valley National Bancorp in connection with a $65 million registered direct offering of common stock.
• Represented Hudson Valley Holding Corp. in connection with a $99.8 million public offering of common stock.
• Represented Stifel, Nicolaus & Company in connection with a $69 million stock offering.
• Represented underwriters in a $459.3 million public offering of bonds.
• Represented initial purchasers in a $200 million offering of notes pursuant to Rule 144A.
• Represented underwriters in a public offering of $85.9 million of senior secured bonds pursuant to a registration statement.
• Represented Fuel Systems Solutions, Inc., in connection with its $30 million registered direct offering of common stock.
• Represented Central Vermont Public Service Corporation in connection with its $24.9 million public offering of common stock.
• Represented Community National Bank in connection with its registration statement for issuance of up to $19.5 million of common stock.
• Represented a placement agent in private placements of notes and limited liability company membership interests.

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