Eve N. Howard
Senior Counsel Corporate & Finance
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Legal 500 US 2020Eve Howard focuses on debt offerings and is noted for her comprehensive coverage of regulated industries-related offerings.
With more than 30 years of experience structuring and negotiating complex corporate transactions, Eve Howard has been a trusted advisor to public company clients when they embark on financing and other strategic transactions. Eve is a Senior Counsel at Hogan Lovells, one of the world’s largest law firms and is the Global lead for Corporate & Finance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
Eve has represented both issuers and leading investment banking firms in the issuance of investment grade, high yield, and convertible notes offerings across a wide spectrum of industries in both public offerings and private placement transactions.
Most recently, Eve served as the Global Head of the firm's Capital Markets practice, combining a client-focused business practicality with substantial knowledge of the structuring and negotiation of debt securities. From 2016 to 2020, Eve served on the firm's senior leadership team as the Regional Managing Partner for the Washington, D.C. region, which includes the D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, Northern Virginia, Boston, and Louisville offices. Eve has also held a number of other roles at Hogan Lovells, leading on important firm issues such as agile working, diversity and inclusion, partner development and advancement, as well as recruitment in the D.C. office. For her work on agile working, she has been recognized by the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance and continues to serve on their Advisory Council.
Eve is currently on the board of Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CCOI), where she serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and sits on two nonprofit boards, DirectWomen and Reading Partners DC. She also served as Chair of the Board of Lowell School, an independent K-8 school in Washington, D.C. where she also served as trustee for seven years.
Eve is a graduate of Duke Law School, where she currently serves on the Board of Visitors, and Dartmouth College.
Legal 500 US 2021Eve Howard … has an outstanding record in big-ticket transactions.
Representative experience
Led a leading global technology company's debut debt issuance of US$17bn in bonds, the largest DCM issuance ever done at that time, and over US$50bn in follow-on offerings in multiple currencies.
Represented Marvell Technology Group in its debut US$1bn bond offering to fund the acquisition of Cavium Inc.
Represented Equifax Inc. in its recent US$1bn investment grade bond offering.
Represent Anthem Inc. in all debt capital markets activity since 2012, including US$11bn in senior notes, convertible bonds and equity units.
Represented long-time client Orbital Sciences Corp. in a transformative US$5bn merger with ATK Inc., the first forward Morris Trust deal in 15 years.
Represented underwriters and issuers in multiple debut REIT debt issuances involving both investment grade and high-yield debt.
Represented multiple private equity portfolio companies in the structuring and negotiation of debut high yield debt issuances.
Represented Playa Resorts & Hotels in its high-yield debt issuance and restructuring transaction, several follow on offerings, and its pending merger transaction.
Represented Quality Technology Services in its IPO and subsequent high-yield debt offering.
Representing various media companies (including 21st Century Fox and CBS Corp.) in their recent debt capital markets transactions.
Credentials
- J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1987
- A.B., Dartmouth College, 1984
- District of Columbia
- New York
- Member, Business Law Section, American Bar Association
- Member, Diversity Flexibility Alliance Advisory Council