Chris Paci has substantial experience representing investment banks and US and foreign issuers in a broad range of capital markets transactions. These include registered offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked, high-yield debt and investment-grade debt securities; and exchange offers, tender offers, and consent solicitations. He also has significant experience in merger and acquisition transactions and debt restructurings.

Mr. Paci has worked with companies in many industries, including aerospace/defense, consumer/retail, healthcare/life sciences, manufacturing, mining and natural resources, technology and telecommunications, often in connection with leveraged acquisitions or recapitalizations. The transactions in which he has been engaged have involved issuers in Europe, Latin America and Asia, as well as in the United States and Canada.

Mr. Paci regularly advises company clients regarding SEC reporting and disclosure requirements and corporate governance matters.

Mr. Paci speaks regularly on securities law topics at the Practising Law Institute and other venues. In 2006, he was named one of New York's Super Lawyers as the result of a research project conducted by Law & Politics magazine.

Before joining DLA Piper, Mr. Paci was a partner in the corporate finance group at King & Spalding LLP and, prior to that, Shearman & Sterling LLP.

In 2008, Mr. Paci was elected to serve as chair of the board of directors of the Harlem School of the Arts (HSA), based in Harlem's historic Sugar Hill neighborhood. Founded in 1964 by opera soprano Dorothy Maynor, HSA's mission is to enrich the lives of youth and their families in the Harlem community and beyond through training in, and exposure to, the arts. It serves 3,000 students every year.