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Kevin A. MacLeod

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Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

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Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Kevin A. MacLeod is the Head of the New York Capital Markets group at Vedder Price and a Shareholder in the firm’s Corporate practice area. He primarily advises clients on capital markets transactions and the US Federal securities laws.

Mr. MacLeod has advised issuers, underwriters and investors in relation to more than 200 securities offerings with aggregate proceeds in excess of $100 billion, particularly offerings by issuers in the aviation industry or the financial and industrials sectors. Many of these transactions were recognized as “deals of the year” by industry publications.

Mr. MacLeod advises clients on US registered public offerings, 144A/Reg S private offerings and private placements of debt and equity securities. He also advises on compliance with the US Federal securities laws, including the US Securities Act of 1933, the US Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 and the US Investment Company Act of 1940 and related rules and regulations.

Mr. MacLeod has extensive experience advising on corporate debt offerings and structured finance matters. In aviation, he regularly advises on structured aircraft portfolio (ABS) transactions, investment grade and high yield notes (secured and unsecured) and enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs). Mr. MacLeod has also advised clients on IPOs, secondary equity offerings, tender offers, consent solicitations and other liability management matters.

Mr. MacLeod is a graduate of McGill University’s Faculty of Law where he was Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Law Journal.

Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Education

  • McGill University, LL.B./B.C.L., 2003, (Honours), with distinction
  • Concordia University, B.A., 1998

Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Bar Admissions

  • New York, 2004

Affiliations

  • Member, American Bar Association
  • Member, American Bar Association Subcommittee on Aircraft Financing
  • Member, International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading (ISTAT)

Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Kevin A. MacLeod

Shareholder

Head of the New York Capital Markets Group

Experience

  • Represented the sponsor and issuer in a Rule 144/Reg S offering of $311 million securitization of equipment contract backed notes

  • Represented the sponsor and issuer in a Rule 144/Reg S offering of $229 million securitization of equipment contract backed notes

  • Represented the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $506.5 million of notes in an ABS transaction secured by a portfolio of 19 aircraft

  • Represented the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $429.1 million of notes in an ABS transaction secured by a portfolio of 25 aircraft

  • Represented the sponsor and issuer in a Rule 144/Reg S offering of $911 million of notes in an ABS transaction secured by a portfolio of aircraft

  • Represented the initial purchasers in a Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $251 million of notes in an ABS transaction secured by a portfolio of 18 aircraft

  • Represented an alternative investment firm in its purchase of equity certificates related to a portfolio of 17 aircraft in relation to an ABS transaction

  • Represented an investment management firm in its purchase of equity certificates related to a portfolio of 25 aircraft in relation to an ABS transaction

  • Represented an aircraft asset manager as issuer in Rule 144A/Reg S offerings of investment grade unsecured notes aggregating $5 billion

  • Represented a commercial finance company as issuer in private placements of unsecured notes aggregating of $240 million