Carolyn Buller is firmwide industry coordinator and a member of the firm’s Operating Leadership Group. Carolyn has more than 25 years’ experience in mergers and acquisitions, securities matters, corporate counseling and corporate governance. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500 US.

Carolyn regularly leads large, international mergers and acquisitions. She has served as general counsel and corporate secretary for a leading chemical manufacturer and guided that firm during a complex and critical management transition involving litigation and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigations.

Her complex corporate practice has also led private equity firms to call on her to arrange debt and equity financings as well as for her counsel and involvement in matters related to commercial and secured transactions.

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• Representing Ashland Inc. in its US$3.3 billion acquisition of Hercules Incorporated and related senior note offering.
• Representing OM Group, Inc. in its €1.2 billion acquisition of the Degussa Metals Catalysts Cerdec (dmc2) business and related note and equity offerings.
• Representing a seller in its US$800 million sale of a specialty chemicals business to Umicore.
• Representing a chemical company in the sale of electronic materials, performance pigments and colors, and glass systems and coatings divisions to a specialty chemical company for approximately US$520 million.
• Leveraging acquisitions by a private equity firm with funds of more than US$2 billion under management.
• Acting both as special counsel for public company audit committees and as company counsel in internal investigations of financial wrongdoing.
• Representing Ferro Corporation in an SEC-registered exchange offer for US$400 million of debt securities.
• Representing a Fortune 500 company in a common stock offering of more than 4 million shares (public offering price of US$237 million).
• Representing a Fortune 500 company in a senior subordinated debt securities (high yield) A/B exchange with a Rule 144A offering and SEC-registered exchange offer (US$400 million).
• Representing OM Group in a US$100 million public offering of common stock, a US$30 million private placement of debt, a US$80 million merger, an acquisition in Thailand and joint ventures in Japan and Korea.