Joe Bauerschmidt has over 30 years of capital markets and M&A experience. He has worked on more than 400 deals, successfully raising a combined total of USD70 billion. His principal focus is on representing leading international investment banks and corporate issuers with securities offerings, mergers, liability management and restructurings in the public and private capital markets.
Joe has completed a large number of venture capital and mid-size private equity deals, with a particular focus on Fintech and technology-driven disruptive businesses. He has worked on numerous NASDAQ, NYSE, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia IPOs and more than 90 high-yield financings throughout Asia.
Joe’s work in Singapore includes IPOs, SPACs, and other offerings for Temasek, CapitaCommercial Trust, K-REIT, Starhill Global REIT, Pacific Internet, OCBC, SATS, SIAEC, UTAC, ARA, and Abbey National, and proposed offerings for Singapore Power, Samudra Energy, PT Bank Mandiri (Persero) Tbk, ECnet, BexCom, First Shipping Lease Trust and Catcha.com.
He has been engaged in Indonesian transactions since 1992, advising companies including PT Berau Coal Energy Tbk, PT Antam, PT Karyadibya Mahardika, PT Freeport Indonesia, PT Bukit Makmur Mandiri Utama (BUMA), PT Pertamina (Persero), PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk, Niko Resources Indonesia, PT Yudistira Bumi Energi, PT Bumi Serpong Damai Tbk, PT Ciliandra Perkasa, PT Alam Sutera, PT Medco Energi International, and PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper (RAPP).
Joe advises issuers and underwriters in structuring, negotiating and restructuring high yield bonds, IPOs and SPACs. He has worked with clients throughout Asia, including Indonesia, China, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, India, and Vietnam, and in Mexico, Canada, the UK and the US. He represented the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka on its maiden sovereign bond offering, Finance Asia's bond deal of the year for 2007.
Joe spent several years working as an engineer in the oil and gas industry and then began his legal career on Wall Street before moving to Asia in 1997.
