The head of Skadden’s West Coast capital markets practice, Gregg A. Noel is recognized as one of the leading capital markets attorneys in the country, representing clients in public offerings, private placements, dispositions, corporate restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions.
In a capital markets environment characterized by rapid change and necessitating innovation, Noel is sought by U.S. and international issuers, investment banks and financial institutions to provide sophisticated guidance in the most complex transactions.
Annually, he is involved in numerous transactions totaling in the tens of billions of dollars. Clients from a broad range of industries, including health care, real estate, financial services and hospitality, call on him to handle their most important matters. He has extensive experience advising technology companies, including PayPal Holdings, Inc.; Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.; Ten-X, LLC; NVIDIA Corporation; Shopify Inc.; Yahoo! Inc.; Hulu, LLC; SurveyMonkey Inc.; SanDisk Corporation; and EMC Corporation.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2026 | REITs |
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2026 | Capital Markets |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers | 2025 | REITs |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2025 | Capital Markets, esp. SPACS |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Dealmakers in America | 2024 | Capital Markets, esp. SPACS |
He has been involved in numerous initial public offerings for U.S. and foreign issuers, including Arysta LifeScience Limited; Safety-Kleen Systems and Vencore Holding Corp. (each part of a dual-track process, which, in the case of Vencore, resulted in a merger via a Reverse Morris Trust); Affirm Holdings, Inc.; D.E Master Blenders 1753 B.V.; Houlihan Lokey Capital; Pinterest, Inc.; and Shopify Inc. He has an active practice representing special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), with his team advising on approximately 350 SPAC IPOs since 2006. Among many other groundbreaking SPAC deals,
He also regularly handles the financing aspects of strategic transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and spin-offs. Some of Noel’s representations include EMC Corporation in its $67 billion acquisition by Dell, Inc.; Hillshire Brands Company in its $8.6 billion unsolicited acquisition by Tyson Foods; Plum Creek Timber Company in its $8.4 billion acquisition by Weyerhaeuser Co.; and SanDisk Corporation in its $19 billion acquisition by Western Digital Corporation. He also has represented clients such as J.C. Penney Corporation, Inc.; Viking Cruises Ltd.; and CF Industries in notes offerings and other transactions.
As co-head of the firm’s real estate investment trusts (REIT) practice, Noel regularly represents REITs in connection with capital market transactions, including initial public offerings and general corporate matters. He handled one of the largest-ever REIT IPOs — a $1.6 billion offering by Douglas Emmett Inc. — and has represented numerous other REITs including Westfield Corporation and DigitalBridge, Inc.
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