Douglas A. Tanner

dtanner@milbank.com

+1-212-530-5505 (T)
+1-212-822-5505 (F)

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New York
1 Chase Manhattan Plaza
New York, NY 10005
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Education
Stanford University, J.D.
Stanford University, M.B.A.
Stanford University, A.B.

Admissions
New York
California
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Clerkships
Honorable Joseph T. Sneed, United States Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit (August 1978 - August 1979)

Douglas Tanner is a partner in the New York office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy and a member of the firm's Securities Group, where he served as Practice Group Leader from 2004 to 2010.  A partner since 1989, from 2001 to 2004 Mr. Tanner was the founding Managing Partner of Milbank’s Silicon Valley Office. From 1996 to 2001 he was the Managing Partner of Milbank’s Hong Kong Office and head of Milbank’s Asia corporate and securities practice. He was previously resident in the firm’s Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Palo Alto offices and has practiced in San Francisco.

Primary Focus & Experience

Mr. Tanner’s has a highly diversified corporate and capital markets practice. He regularly represents issuers and underwriters in SEC-registered and private offerings of equity, convertible and debt securities, including substantial experience with complex initial public offerings and offerings of high yield debt securities. He also represents private equity and other fund investors in investments in equity and mezzanine debt instruments.

His recent representations include:

  • a major financial institution in over $1 billion of mezzanine debt investments in connection with acquisition finance transactions 
  • SEC-registered initial public offerings and a follow-on secondary offering
  • underwriters in exempt offerings of notes guaranteed by the US Export-Import Bank
  • a private company in restructuring its outstanding equity and debt and merger-affiliated but separately-owned businesses
  • a private company based in China in a merger with an affiliated Hong Kong public company and the underwriters of the resulting Hong Kong listed company in a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of high yield debt securities

  • underwriters in over $2 billion of secured high yield debt securities offered in Rule 44A/Regulation S offerings

Recognition & Accomplishments

Mr. Tanner has been a frequent speaker internationally on corporate and securities topics. He is a past member of the California State Bar Corporations Committee and served as Senior Note Editor of the Stanford Law Review.