Bill Hughes

Bill Hughes leads Orrick’s Capital Markets practice. He focuses on securities offerings, counseling public and late-stage private companies and securities law compliance.

• Engagements

  Bill has been involved in dozens of offering processes, including advising:

  • Initial purchasers in the $287.5 million convertible note offering of PagerDuty
  • Twist Bioscience in its $140.5 million and $108.1 million follow-on offerings
  • Beyond Meat in its $240.6 million initial public offering and $520 million follow-on offering
  • Underwriters led by Barclays, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and RBC Capital Markets in $750 million senior note offering of Ally Financial 
  • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, RBC Capital Markets and Allen & Company in the $250 million initial public offering of PagerDuty
  • Sonos in its $95.8 million initial public offering
  • Underwriters led by RBC Capital Markets, J.P. Morgan and Citigroup in the $329 million follow-on public offering of GDS Holdings
  • Alteryx in its $126 million initial public offering and $170 million follow-on offering
  • Underwriters led by Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Citi, RBC Capital Markets and China Renaissance in the $193 million initial public offering of GDS Holdings
  • Symantec in its $1.1 billion senior unsecured note offering
  • Cisco Systems in its $6.25 billion senior notes offering
  • Cisco Systems in its $7 billion senior notes offering
  • Adesto Technologies in its $25 million initial public offering, and $17.5 million and $40.2 million follow-on offerings
  • Cisco Systems in its $5 billion senior notes offering
  • Underwriters led by J.P. Morgan, BofA Merrill Lynch, and Citigroup in the $83 million follow-on public offering of TubeMogul
  • Underwriters led by BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and RBC Capital Markets in the $50 million initial public offering of TubeMogul
  • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in the $100 million initial public offering of MobileIron
  • Cisco Systems in its $8 billion senior notes offering
  • Acucela in its $162 million initial public offering
  • Underwriters led by Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and BofA Merrill Lynch in the $86 million initial public offering of Barracuda Networks
  • Infoblox in its $120 million initial public offering and $115 million follow-on offering
  • Symantec in its $1 billion senior notes offering
  • Green Dot in its $189 million initial public offering and $286 million follow-on offering
  • Symantec in its $1.1  billion senior notes offering
  • ShoreTel in its $86 million initial public offering
  • Intuit in its $1.1  billion senior notes offering
  • Cepheid in its $99 million follow-on offering
  • Diamond Foods in its $117 million initial public offering and related co-op conversion