Dionne M. Rousseau

Dionne M. Rousseau, Jones Walker, acquisitions transactions lawyer, public private companies attorney
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Dionne Rousseau has served as the lead outside corporate and securities counsel for 12 public companies, and as boardroom lawyer for three of those companies. She has more than 25 years of experience handling corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions transactions for public and private companies. Representative transactions handled as lead counsel include two $1-billion at-the-market common stock offerings for a Fortune 500® Company; a $1-billion debt refinancing, including $300 million in senior subordinated notes and a $200-million debt tender offer; a $250-million senior convertible note offering (Rule 144A); a $1.4 billion public company cash-for-stock merger; initial public offerings (IPOs); taking a private company client public in an $80-million reverse merger transaction; a $40-million acquisition by a public company of private company assets; a $45-million sale of a division of a public company; and a management leveraged buyout of a publicly traded company through a negotiated cash tender offer.

Ms. Rousseau is ranked in the first band (top tier) in the area of Corporate/M&A in the 2015 edition of "Chambers USA - America's Leading Lawyers for Business."  

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