Darren Skinner

Darren Skinner focuses his practice on corporate and securities matters. He has represented private and sovereign clients in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia in connection with a variety of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and business structuring and formation transactions. Mr. Skinner serves as a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Mr. Skinner has advised issuers, selling securityholders, venture capital and private equity investors, underwriters, and placement agents in public offerings and private placements covering equity, debt, and hybrid securities, including IPOs, follow-ons, registered directs, secondaries, exchange offers, and unregistered transactions pursuant to Regulation D, Regulation S, and Rules 144 and 144A under the Securities Act. He has also represented buyers, sellers, and special committees of boards in merger and acquisition transactions, including stock and asset deals, mergers, and reorganizations. In addition, Mr. Skinner regularly counsels clients on corporate and securities compliance matters, including Securities Exchange Act reporting and corporate governance issues. Mr. Skinner was named a 2024 Thomson Reuters Stand-Out Lawyer following an independent global survey of senior in-house counsel who were asked to identify the most outstanding lawyers they had worked with in the last three years. In 2020 and 2018, Mr. Skinner was named an Acritas Star Lawyer based on independent global surveys of general counsel and other senior leaders at legal departments. Mr. Skinner is included on the inaugural BTI Consulting Group’s Client Service All-Star Team for Corporate Transactions, which, based on a survey of corporate counsel at large and FORTUNE 1000 companies, identifies a very limited number of US attorneys who provide superior client service in corporate transactions