Lucy W. Farr
Concentrates in the taxation of corporate finance, derivatives and structured finance, as well as on U.S. and international tax planning for financial institutions.
Lucy concentrates in the taxation of corporate finance, derivatives and structured finance, as well as on U.S. and international tax planning for financial institutions. She has advised financial institutions and issuers in the development and execution of complex public and private financial products designed to achieve capital raising, hedging or other objectives.
Lucy has also done significant work in bankruptcy and other restructuring matters and in representing investment funds.
She is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. She is the Secretary of the Tax Section of the New York State Bar Association and has held multiple leadership roles in the ABA Section on Taxation.
Experience
Recent Work
- Centrus Energy $402.5 million convertible senior notes offering
- Morgan Stanley £1 billion offering of senior notes
- Morgan Stanley Bank $2.75 billion senior notes offering
- Morgan Stanley $3 billion senior notes offering
- Guidewire Software $690 million convertible senior notes offering
- Gran Tierra Energy $150 million notes offering
- MicroStrategy $1.01 billion convertible notes offering
- CSX $550 million senior notes offering
- Deutsche Bank $2.5 billion notes offerings
- Mastercard $3 billion senior notes offering
- PPL Capital Funding $750 million senior notes offering
- Morgan Stanley $1 billion preferred stock offering
- Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF approval and $1.8 billion bitcoin seeding
- Grayscale Ethereum Trust approved as world’s largest Ether ETF
- Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF approval and seeding through Ether distribution
- Morgan Stanley Bank $2.5 billion senior notes offering
Insights
News
Recognition
Chambers USA – Tax, New York
Legal 500 U.S. – Tax: Financial Products
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) – Corporate Tax: Advisory
ITR World Tax – Transactional Tax, New York
Best Lawyers – Tax, New York
Education
- Editor in Chief, Yale Journal on Regulation
- cum laude
Qualifications and admissions
- State of New York