Laura Katherine Mann
Laura Katherine Mann
Laura Katherine Mann
Laura Katherine Mann

Clients says that Laura Katherine “is a great lawyer to work with and very commercial.”

Chambers USA 2024

Biography

Laura Katherine Mann is a partner in White & Case's Americas Capital Markets Group, resident in the Firm's Houston office.

Laura Katherine represents public and private companies in a broad range of corporate and securities matters. She represents issuers, investment banking firms and other investors in public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, follow-on and secondary public offerings and 144A offerings. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters, including Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance.

Experience

Capital Markets and Securities Matters

  • GameStop Corp. in $4.2 billion of convertible notes offerings.
  • CenterPoint Energy, Inc. and its affiliates on:
    • $2.7 billion of public offerings of common and preferred stock;
    • a $1.4 billion equity investment from Elliott Management and others;
    • a $978 million public offering of depositary shares representing a 1/20 interest in a share of CenterPoint Energy, Inc.'s 7.00% Series B Mandatory Convertible Preferred Stock; and
    • over $8 billion of public offerings of senior notes and general mortgage bonds.
  • TC Energy in CAD$7.9 billion offering of senior and subordinated notes of South Bow Corporation in connection with the spinoff of its Liquids Pipelines business.
  • Underwriters in over US$5.8 billion of public offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities of Spectra Energy Corp and subsidiaries.
  • EchoStar in exchange of approximately US$5 billion of convertible notes of DISH Network for US$2.3 billion of spectrum secured senior notes and US$1.9 billion of spectrum secured convertible senior notes.
  • Affiliates of Transocean Ltd. in over US$2.4 billion of private placements of senior secured notes and a US$700 million waterfall debt tender offer.
  • Multicoin Capital on its investment in a US$1.65 billion private placement in Forward Industries, Inc.
  • Affiliates of McDermott International, Inc. in a US$1.3 billion private placement of senior notes.
  • Shell Midstream Partners, L.P. in its US$1.1 billion initial public offering.
  • Enable Midstream Partners, LP in its US$575 million initial public offering, US$363 million private placement of preferred equity and US$161 million public equity offering.
  • Initial purchasers in a US$500 million private placement of debt securities of Pacific Drilling V Limited.
  • Kimbell Royalty Partners, LP in US$435 million of private placements of preferred units.
  • Ormat Technologies, Inc. in private placements of US$1.25 billion of convertible notes.
  • Oatly Group AB in private placements of US$335 million of convertible notes and subsequent repurchase of certain of those notes.
  • Cactus, Inc. in its US$332 million public equity offering and of the underwriters in Cactus, Inc.'s US$503 million initial public offering.
  • Morgan Stanley on W&T Offshore, Inc.'s US$275 million senior second lien notes offering.
  • Bit Digital, Inc. in US$240 million of public equity offerings and its $135 million private placement of convertible notes.
  • TotalEnergies and Global Infrastructure Partners on a US$175 million financing transaction with SunPower Corporation, which included warrants.
  • WhiteFiber, Inc. in its US$159 million initial public offering, private placements of US$540 million of convertible notes, and term loan between a subsidiary of WhiteFiber and a subsidiary of Bit Digital.
  • Tigo Energy, Inc. on a variety of matters, including a registered direct offering of common stock.
  • Underwriters in the initial public offering of OCI Resources LP.
  • Optimum Communications, Inc. and its subsidiaries in connection with CSC Investments II LLC’s cash tender offer to public stockholders.

Mergers and Acquisitions

  • Conflicts Committee of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP) and the Special Committee of Kinder Morgan Management (KMR) in the US$70 billion purchase of KMP, KMR and El Paso Pipeline Partners by Kinder Morgan, Inc.
  • CenterPoint Energy, Inc. in the formation of a midstream joint venture with assets over US$11 billion.
  • Board of Directors of Plains GP Holdings, L.P. in its US$7.2 billion simplification transaction with Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
  • WorleyParsons Ltd. in its US$3.2 billion acquisition of the energy, chemicals and resources division of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
  • TC Energy on spin-off of liquids pipelines to create two premium energy infrastructure companies.

SPAC Transactions

  • dMY Technology Group Inc. IV in its US$2.8 billion business combination with Planet Labs.
  • Tigo Energy, Inc. in its US$600 million business combination with Roth CH Acquisition IV Co.
  • Presto Automation Inc. in its US$525 million business combination with Ventoux CCM Acquisition Corp.
  • REE Automotive, Ltd. in its warrant exchange.
  • Dealer manager in a warrant exchange for Genius Sports.

*Includes matters prior to joining White & Case.

Texas
JD
University of Chicago Law School
BBA
University of Georgia
BS
University of Georgia
English

Chambers USA, 2025:
Up & Coming, Capital Markets: Debt & Equity: Nationwide and Texas

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