Shagufa R. Hossain, P.C.

Partner Capital Markets

Washington, D.C. +1 202 389 3436

Shagufa R. Hossain, P.C.

Practices

Overview

Shagufa Hossain is a capital markets partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Shagufa represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies, investment banks, and public and private companies in debt and equity financing and other transactions. She helps clients across the business lifecycle — from the earliest stages to maturity — navigate market conditions and devise effective capital structures.

Shagufa brings commercial perspective and extensive experience to advise clients on leveraged buyout transactions and high-yield and investment-grade notes offerings, initial public offerings, liability management transactions, De-SPAC transactions, cross-border transactions, and public company representation and corporate governance.

Earlier in her legal career, Shagufa worked in Hong Kong, where she represented foreign private issuers in equity and debt offerings. She was previously an analyst in the London office of an international investment bank.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Shagufa’s experience included representing:

IPOs and Public Company Representation

  •  Bandwidth in its IPO and listing on Nasdaq, as well as a subsequent follow-on offering and convertible notes offering
  • Multi Packaging Solutions International in its IPO and listing on the NYSE
  • The underwriters in PRA Health Sciences’ IPO and listing on Nasdaq
  • SIG Combibloc Group in its IPO and listing on the SIX Swiss Exchange, as well as subsequent sales by its private equity owner

LBO and Debt Transactions

  •  Costar Group in various debt and equity offerings
  • Hammerhead Resources in a high yield notes offering
  • Host Hotels & Resorts in various debt and equity offerings
  • One Rock in financing its acquisitions of Innophos, as well as a subsequent PIK toggle notes offering
  • Onex in financing its acquisition of Clarivate Analytics
  • Onex in financing its acquisition of SIG Combibloc
  • Rockpoint Gas Storage in a series of high yield notes offerings

SPAC Transactions

  • Capitol Investment Corp. IV in its merger with Nesco Holdings
  • Clarivate Analytics and Onex Corporation in Clarivate’s merger with Churchill Capital
  • Embark Trucks in its merger with Northern Genesis
  • Group Nine Acquisition Corp. in its IPO and listing on Nasdaq
  • Leonard Green & Partners, as a shareholder in MultiPlan, in Multiplan’s merger with Churchill Capital Corp. III
  • Opendoor Labs in its merger with Social Capital Hedosophia Holding Corp. II
  • Starry in its de-SPAC merger with FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp.
  • The underwriters in VG Acquisition Corp. and Virgin Group Acquisition Corp. II’s IPOs and listings on the NYSE
  • Vivid Seats in its merger with Horizon Acquisition Corporation

Representative Clients

 Prior to joining Kirkland, Shagufa also represented the following clients:

  • Bank of America
  • Barclays
  • The Carlyle Group and its portfolio companies
  • Credit Suisse
  • JPMorgan
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Platinum Equity
  • Riverstone Holdings

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • District of Columbia
  • New York

Education

  • University of Miami School of LawJ.D.2006
  • University of LondonLL.M.2003
  • Georgetown UniversityB.S.B.A.2001