Bio

Joe Bauerschmidt has 29 years of capital markets and M&A experience, spanning more than 400 deals and successfully raising USD70 billion. His principal focus has been on securities offerings, liability management and restructurings in the public and private capital markets representing leading international investment banks as well as corporate issuers. Joe has completed a large number of Venture Capital/ mid-size Private Equity deals with an emphasis on Fintech and technology-driven disruptive businesses. Joe's work in Singapore includes IPOs, SPACs, and other offerings for Temasek, CapitaCommercial Trust, K-REIT, Starhill Global REIT, Pacific Internet, OCBC, SATS, SIAEC, UTAC, ARA, and Abbey National and proposed offerings for Singapore Power, Samudra Energy, ECnet, BexCom, First Shipping Lease Trust and Catcha.com. He has been engaged in Indonesian transactions since 1992, advising companies such as PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk, PT Antam, PT Karyadibya Mahardika, PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama (BUMA), PT Pertamina (Persero), PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk, Niko Resources Indonesia, PT Yudistira Bumi Energi, PT Bumi Serpong Damai Tbk, PT Ciliandra Perkasa, PT Alam Sutera, PT Medco Energi International and PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP). Joe has advised issuers and underwriters in structuring, negotiating and restructuring high yield bonds, IPOs and SPACs throughout Asia in Indonesia, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Vietnam as well as in Mexico, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. He represented the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on its maiden sovereign bond offering, Finance Asia's bond deal of the year for 2007.