Ekaterina Bogdanov
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Ekaterina Bogdanov

Associate

Email

katya.bogdanov@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 416 360 2954

Offices

Toronto

V-CARD
Ekaterina represents investment banks and corporate issuers in a broad range of public and private capital markets transactions, as well as provides ongoing corporate advice.
Ekaterina's practice includes initial public offerings, follow-on, secondary and other equity offerings, acquisition financings, investment grade and high-yield debt issuances, cross-border securities offerings and liability management transactions in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, media and telecommunications, financial services, metals and mining, and sovereign issuers.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • The underwriters in connection with a $13.1 billion secondary registered offering of shares of The Charles Schwab Corporation by The Toronto-Dominion Bank. The transaction marked the largest financial services public equity offering of the past five years and one of the largest equity offerings in the United States in a decade. Through the equity offering and a $1.5 billion repurchase by Charles Schwab of its shares from TD Bank, TD Bank sold its entire 10.1% economic stake in Charles Schwab for a total of $14.6 billion in gross proceeds.
  • Liberty Global Ltd. on the $3.2 billion initial market capitalization spin-off and dual SIX and Nasdaq listing of its Swiss telecommunications business, Sunrise Communications AG.
  • Genmab in connection with its $506 million initial public offering and listing of American Depositary Shares on the Nasdaq.
  • Sundial Growers in connection with its $143 million initial public offering and listing of common shares on the Nasdaq.
  • GMP and BMO as representatives of the underwriters in connection with Cronos Group's C$100million offering of common shares under the Multijurisdictional Disclosure System.
  • BofA Securities, Barclays, BMO and other underwriters in connection with Bell Canada's $600 million registered offering of notes.
  • BofA Securities as representative of the underwriters in connection with Exact Sciences Corporation's $748 million offering of convertible notes.
  • Morgan Stanley, as representative of the underwriters in connection with Globalstar's secondary offering of common stock.
  • The Bank of Nova Scotia, the Province of Ontario and the Province of British Columbia in connection with their registered debt offerings.

Published Work

  • Mujalovic, I., Halbhuber, H. & Bogdanov, E. (2024) “Initial Public Offerings, 2024”, Chapter “Going public in the USA: an overview of the regulatory framework and capital markets process for IPOs.” Global Legal Insights.
  • Masella, R., Mujalovic, I. & Bogdanov, E. (2022) “Health Care Mergers and Acquisitions Answer Book”, Chapter 11. Financing Drug Development Actions, Practising Law Institute

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-Law, New York

Academic

MBA, with distinction, BBA with distinction, Schulich School of Business

J.D., Osgoode Hall Law School York University

Languages

Russian
Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.