Jeffrey D. Karpf is a partner based in the New York office.
Mr. Karpf’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions. He represents investment banks and issuers in a variety of SEC-registered and private debt and equity offerings, as well as tender and exchange offers. He has extensive experience in the development of new financial instruments and structured equity derivatives products. Mr. Karpf also advises on securities regulatory and corporate governance matters, including board structure and practices.
Mr. Karpf is distinguished as a leading lawyer by
Chambers Global, Chambers USA,
The Legal 500 U.S.,
IFLR and the
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook. In addition, Mr. Karpf was honored in 2009 as a "Dealmaker of the Week" by
The American Lawyer.
Mr. Karpf recently represented the underwriters in a series of transactions that enabled AIG to re-access the capital markets, including AIG's "re-IPO" in May 2011 and the largest secondary equity offering in U.S. history in September 2012. The firm's role in the re-IPO was distinguished as a standout for finance by the
Financial Times' U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report in 2011.
Mr. Karpf is a Co-Chair of PLI's Directors' Institute on Corporate Governance. He is also co-author of
PLI's Guide to the Securities Offering Reforms (2005), "The SEC's Securities Offering Reform Proposals: Will this Ship Sail?,"
The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulations (March 2005), "When Time of Sale Disclosure Turns Out to be Wrong: Reforming the Securities Sale Contract,"
The Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation (February 21, 2007), "Impact of Revised Rule 144 on Registration Rights,"
Derivatives Financial Products Report (April 2008), and "Pipes and Dribble-Outs,"
IFLR (April 1, 2010).
Mr. Karpf joined the firm in 1994. He received a J.D. degree, Order of the Coif, from Stanford University Law School in 1994 and an undergraduate degree,
magna cum laude, from Yale University in 1989.
Mr. Karpf is a member of the Bar in New York.