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Christopher has recently represented

• an agricultural mortgage corporation
  • in its offering of an aggregate of US$135 million of senior cumulative perpetual preferred stock
  • in its US$475 million notes offering
  • in its US$1 billion notes offering
  • on its compliance with the Exchange Act
• a Bavarian bank
  • in the annual update of its New York branch’s US$30 billion medium-term note program
  • in the update of its commercial paper program
• the designated underwriters for a major financial institution
  • in its offering of US$437.5 million of FDIC-Guaranteed floating rate notes
  • in its offering of US$250 million of FDIC-Guaranteed floating rate notes
  • in its offering of US$1 billion of FDIC-Guaranteed senior bank notes
• a major U.S. beverage company
  • in its US$350 million and US$250 million notes offering
  • in its US$275 million floating rate notes offering
• a global sportswear and sports equipment company on its ADR program updates and its compliance with Rule 12g3-2(b)
• the underwriters for a healthcare products and services company’s US$350 million floating rate notes and US$500 million notes offerings
• the underwriter for a credit and debit card-based payment processing company
  • in its US$75 million senior notes offering
  • in its US$205 million senior subordinated notes offering
• the underwriter for an advertising company’s US$1 billion senior notes offering
• the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in its US$150 million notes offering
• the placement agents in an oil sands development company’s private placement of US$50 million of common stock pursuant to Regulation S
• a global entertainment content company in its US$50 billion separation of a mass media company
• a major alternative asset management firm in its US$1.4 billion acquisition by a global asset management company
• a major European energy company in its US$1.25 billion divestiture of an electricity and water metering company
• a Germany-based electronics and electrical engineering company in its US$1 billion acquisition of a major U.S. water treatment company
• a major market and securities data company in its US$525 million acquisition of an electronic securities trading network
• a leading global pharmaceutical company in its US$993 million divestiture of certain of its U.S., German and Japanese subsidiaries to a global, specialty biopharmaceutical company

Christopher is pro bono corporate counsel to RightRides for Women’s Safety, Inc., a non-profit corporation that provides free late-night transportation for women in the New York area. He has incorporated and obtained tax-exempt status for RightRides, and has provided ongoing corporate and corporate governance advice since 2004.

Before joining Torys, Christopher was a senior corporate associate at another New York firm.