Dwight Yoo’s practice focuses on capital markets and other corporate transactions, with extensive experience in the insurance industry and financial institutions technology sector.
Yoo represents issuers, investment banks and private equity firms in IPOs and other public offerings and private placements of equity, debt and hybrid securities, exchange offers and consent solicitations, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and separation transactions. He also counsels clients on corporate governance and securities laws matters.
In recognition of his work, Mr. Yoo has been ranked in Chambers USA’s Capital Markets: Debt & Equity category.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2027 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers | 2027 | Capital Markets |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | Capital Markets |
Selected experience includes:
- Enact Holdings, Inc.’s IPO and related separation transactions from Genworth Financial
- Essent Group Ltd.’s sponsor-backed IPO and other capital markets transactions, representing the underwriters
- Zoetis Inc.’s $2.6 billion carve-out IPO and related separation transactions
- Tumi Holdings, Inc. in its sponsor-backed IPO, follow-on common stock offerings and general corporate matters
- Acrisure in over $10 billion of recapitalizations, preferred stock and debt issuances, and a broad range of corporate transactions and matters
- Citigroup Inc. in over $40 billion of preferred stock offerings, $6 billion of FDIC-guaranteed notes offerings, $12 billion of trust preferred securities offerings, a $5 billion common stock offering and a $25 billion TARP preferred stock issuance to the U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Sea Limited in multiple offerings, including its $7 billion concurrent offerings of convertible notes and American depositary shares (the reported largest offering by a Southeast Asia-based company) and general corporate matters
- American Equity Investment Life Holding Company in various capital markets transactions, including its issuance of fixed-rate reset noncumulative preferred stock
- Two Sigma Investments LLC in the structuring, formation and funding of Hamilton Insurance Group Ltd. and Hamilton’s acquisition of S.A.C. Re, Ltd. (renamed Hamilton Re, Ltd.)
- catastrophe bond and other insurance-linked securities transactions for various sponsors, including Great American Insurance Company
- Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. in multiple capital markets offerings
- Wilton Re in its inaugural debt securities offering through a finance subsidiary and its $1.8 billion sale to Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
- State Farm in the $450 million investment in preferred shares of Desjardins Group’s post-closing property and casualty business in connection with the $1.5 billion sale of its Canadian operations to Desjardins