Mr. DiFiore’s transactional experience includes the following representations:

• Issuers and underwriters or initial purchasers on optional and mandatory convertible or exchangeable securities offerings of various structures (e.g., optionally convertible or exchangeable debt securities, mandatory convertible preferred stock, equity units and tangible equity units)

• Issuers and dealers in connection with various derivatives entered into in connection with a convertible securities offering (e.g., call spread, capped call and forward repurchase transactions)
• The largest structured margin loan on a publicly traded underlying security
• Issuers and dealers in connection with accelerated share repurchase programs
• Dealers in connection with various hedging, monetization and accumulation transactions, such as covered calls, collars, variable prepaid forwards, swaps and put/call combinations
• Dealers and underwriters in connection with SEC-registered forward sale transactions