Bio

Kelly Stout is highly regarded by his colleagues for his corporate finance knowledge and experience, especially relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate formation and capital raises and other complex business transactions. Private equity funds and businesses in key industries rely on Kelly to structure their most complex financings and transactions. Kelly skillfully navigates and closes domestic and cross-border M&A deals and capital markets transactions, and advises companies on the increasingly complex challenges and opportunities relating to securities laws and corporate governance. He has significant experience assisting companies through acquisitions and sales of businesses and complex joint ventures. His capital markets experience and knowledge encompasses public and exempt offerings of securities and the issuance of high yield and investment grade debt securities. Kelly also advises companies with respect to corporate governance matters and interactions with shareholders and with respect to Securities Act reporting requirements.