Luke Jennings is a partner in the Capital Markets and Hybrid Capital groups. Jennings represents private equity funds and other alternative asset managers, portfolio companies and publicly-traded companies in capital markets financings, leveraged acquisitions, private credit and liability management transactions. Jennings also advises boards and senior management on corporate governance, crisis management and disclosure matters.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2026 | Capital Markets, Hybrid Capital |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation | 2025 | Capital Markets, Hybrid Capital |
Some of Jennings’s representative matters include:
Private Equity
- Funds and affiliates of Apollo Global Management, and its portfolio companies
- Hightower Advisors, a portfolio company of THL, in various notes offerings totaling $700 million
- Coatue in its investments in OneTrust and Valsoft
- Clearlake Capital Group in its leveraged acquisition of Endurance International Group and Web.com
- Consortium led by CC Capital, Cannae Holdings and Thomas H. Lee Partners in the leveraged acquisition of Dun & Bradstreet
- Blackstone in the leveraged acquisition of Ipreo
Public Company M&A
- Keurig Dr Pepper in its $18.4 billion acquisition of JDE Peet’s, its planned separation into two independent, U.S.-listed publicly traded companies and its related acquisition financings
- The Column Group and its affiliates in their take-private acquisition of NGM Biopharmaceuticals
- Foresite Capital in the acquisition of Pardes Biosciences
- Ladder Capital Corp in connection with strategic investments by Koch Real Estate Investments and Related Companies
Public Company Debt Financings
- Carnival Corporation in various financings, including notes offerings totaling over $10 billion
- Avis Budget Group in various notes offerings and corporate governance matters
- Carlisle Companies in its investment grade notes offering
- Staples in connection with various notes offerings
- Tripadvisor in its notes offering
- Grubhub in its notes offering
- Frontier Communications Corporation in various strategic financings and reorganization
Public Company Equity Offerings
- Funds affiliated with Apollo in the initial public offering of Aeromexico
- Carnival Corporation in its $1 billion equity offering and its stock swap program
- Freshpet in its initial public offering and follow-on and secondary equity offerings
- Wynn Resorts in its follow-on equity offering
- Awilhelmsen in its secondary sale of Royal Caribbean shares
- 3G in its secondary sale of Restaurant Brands International shares
Restructurings and Other Reorganizations
- Washington Prime Group in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
- Covia Holdings Corporation in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
- Aegean Marine Petroleum Network in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
- Murray Energy Holdings Co. in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases