Philip J. Boeckman is a partner in Cravath’s Corporate Department and Managing Partner of the Firm’s London office. He has been based in the Firm’s London office since 2000, when he relocated to London from the New York office.
Mr. Boeckman’s general corporate practice covers capital markets, including IPOs, rights issuances and other equity offerings, U.S. listings and high-yield bridge, bond and other leveraged financings, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He has represented several of Cravath’s European clients, including AXA, Bacardi, BAT, the European Investment Bank, KPN, Saipem, TNT and Unilever, and several Indian and South African companies. He has also represented Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan and, as designated underwriters’ counsel, Prudential plc and the Republic of Poland, and several private equity firms, including Lion Capital, Permira and Terra Firma.
Mr. Boeckman is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the AFME High Yield Division. He is also co-editor of European Securities Law. Mr. Boeckman is a member of the Editorial Board of Capital Markets Law Journal, as well as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Practising Law Institute’s Eighth Annual Institute on Securities Regulation in Europe. From 2007 to 2009, Mr. Boeckman was Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Securities Law Committee.
Mr. Boeckman has been repeatedly cited as one of the leading practitioners in capital markets by Chambers UK: A Client’s Guide to the UK Legal Profession; Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business; IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms; The Legal 500; The Best Lawyers in UK; The International Who’s Who of Capital Market Lawyers; and PLC Which Lawyer?
Mr. Boeckman was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He received a B.A. cum laude from Westminster College in 1988 and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Missouri in 1991, where he was a Notes Editor on the Law Review. Mr. Boeckman joined Cravath in 1991 and became a partner in 1999.