Demetrius Watson

DEMETRIUS WATSON focuses his practice on corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets transactions.

Demetrius received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2021, where he served as an editor of the Virginia Tax Review and a B.A. from the University of Iowa in 2017, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Representative transactions and experience include: 

• AptarGroup, Inc. in an SEC-registered offering of US$600 million aggregate principal amount of 4.750% Senior Notes due 2031.
• The underwriters in connection with Deere Funding Canada Corporation’s inaugural debt offering of US$500 million of 4.150% Senior Notes due 2030.
• The initial purchasers in connection with a Rule 144A offering by Pebblebrook Hotel Trust of US$400 million of 1.625% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030.
• Accelerant Holdings on its US$832.2 million upsized initial public offering.
• Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited on its US$457.1 million upsized initial public offering.
• The underwriters in connection with GlaxoSmithKline Capital Inc.’s and GlaxoSmithKline Capital plc’s offering of fixed and floating rate senior notes in the aggregate amount of US$2.6 billion.
• The underwriters in Deere & Company’s US$2 billion senior notes offering.
• The underwriters in connection with Atlantic Union Bankshares Corporation’s US$402.5 million forward equity offering in connection with its merger with Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.
• The underwriters in connection with InvenTrust Properties Corp.’s US$257.6 million inaugural equity offering.
• Invitation Homes Operating Partnership LP, the operating partnership of Invitation Homes Inc., in connection with a public debt offering of US$500 million aggregate principal amount of 4.875% Senior Notes due 2035.
• The underwriter, in connection with Liberty Media Corporation’s SEC-registered offering of 12,247,500 shares of Series C Liberty Formula One Common Stock (including the full exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional shares). The offering raised approximately US$938.5 million in net proceeds.
• The underwriters in connection with Service Properties Trust’s issuance of US$1.2 billion senior notes and advising Citigroup Global Markets Inc., as dealer manager, in connection with Service Properties Trust’s cash tender offer to purchase up to US$350 million aggregate principal amount of its outstanding 4.50% senior notes due 2025.
• Regal Rexnord Corporation in connection with its offering of US$4.7 billion of senior unsecured notes as part of the financing for its US$4.95 billion acquisition of Altra Industrial Motion Corp.
• Magna International Inc. in connection with its SEC-registered offering of US$400 million aggregate principal amount of 5.050% Senior Notes due 2029.
• Synchrony Financial in an SEC-registered offering of US$750 million of 5.935% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2030.
• The agents in connection with several medium-term note offerings by PACCAR Financial Corp.