Press Release 04.09.24
Danielle de Zorzi’s practice encompasses a wide range of transactions, focusing primarily on capital markets and mergers & acquisitions.
Danielle has represented clients on debt and equity capital markets transactions, including initial public offerings, placings, medium term-note programs and bond issuances. She has experience advising public companies on general corporate issues, securities regulation, including disclosure, reporting and compliance, and governance issues. She also has experience counselling clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Danielle previously held an in-house position as group senior corporate counsel with AIA Group, the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group, where she counselled the Treasury, Finance, Investor Relations, Human Resources and ESG teams. Prior to going in-house, Danielle practiced at an international law firm, where she focused on capital markets and mergers & acquisitions.
Representative Experience
- AIA Group Limited (AIA) in its $1 billion Rule 144A placement in the United States
- AXA in the $355 million sale of its mandatory pension business in Hong Kong to the Principal Financial Group
- Westpac Banking Corporation in its $1 billion of 2.45% covered bonds
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- Capital Markets
- American International Group (AIG) in various transactions, including:
- AIA’s spin-off from AIG and $20.5 billion in initial public offering and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, constituting the largest IPO in Hong Kong’s history and the world’s largest IPO in the insurance sector
- $2 billion, $6 billion and $6.45 billion sales of ordinary shares of AIA
- Melco Crown Entertainment Limited in various transactions, including:
- 3 billion aggregate principal amount of 3.75% bonds listed on the Singapore Exchange
- $180 million follow-on public offering of American Depositary Shares on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
- Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank as joint book-running managers in the $650 million offering of common stock by Cigna Corporation
- Morgan Stanley, BofA Merrill Lynch, UBS Investment Bank and HSBC as joint book-runners in Cigna Corporation’s $600 million offering of 2.750% senior notes, $750 million of 4.000% senior notes and $750 million of 5.375% senior notes
- American International Group (AIG) in various transactions, including:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Standard Chartered in a 15-year distribution partnership providing Manulife the exclusive right to offer its Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) product to Standard Chartered’s customers in Hong Kong, and the acquisition by Manulife of Standard Chartered’s existing MPF and Occupational Retirement Schemes Ordinance businesses
- AIA in its $1.7 billion acquisition of ING’s Malaysian insurance businesses
- AIG in its $2.16 billion sale of its 97% interest in Nan Shan Life Insurance Company to a consortium in Taiwan
- Hanwha SolarOne in its acquisition of Hanwha Q CELLS in a deal valuating the combined company at $2 billion
- Other Transactions
- AIG and AIA in AIG’s agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) to reduce the debt AIG owed to the FRBNY by $25 million and position AIA for a third-party sale or initial public offering
Education
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J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 2005
cum laude; University of Miami Business Law Review, Senior Articles and Comments EditorB.A., Columbia University, 1998
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Admissions
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New York
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