Taft partner John Stapleton will speak at the Japan Go IPO Summit on Sept. 16 in Tokyo, Japan. He will be a panelist for the session, “Tapping the Markets: Shelf Offerings, PIPEs, ATMs, and M&A.” The discussion will include options to tap the equity and debt markets, including registered directs, ATMs, PIPEs, and convertibles, as well as the “toxic” structures that can destroy shareholder value.

Taft is a sponsor of the Japan Go IPO Summit, a one-day conference for senior management teams and board members of innovative Japanese companies seeking to raise growth capital and build global brands. Learn more about the conference here.

Stapleton lived in Japan for six years and is a leading capital markets and M&A attorney in cross-border Japanese legal matters. He has extensive experience representing Japanese and U.S. companies in a variety of cross-border corporate and capital markets transactions.