Sunyi Snow
Biography
Sunyi Snow is a counsel in the Capital Markets and Securities Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s Dallas office.
Sunyi focuses on a broad spectrum of corporate transactions, including U.S. and cross-border capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, financing, securities regulation, and corporate governance for both public and private companies. Sunyi represents issuers, investors and underwriters in public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, ATMs, PIPEs, structured and restructured issuances of mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, and other strategic transactions.
Sunyi advises clients across diverse industries, including technology, real estate, financial services, healthcare, energy and hospitality. She often operates as an outside general counsel for many of her clients, helping them navigate fiduciary duties, corporate governance and planning, and SEC reporting and compliance.
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- Represented Innovative International Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in its merger with Zoomcar, Inc.
- Represented CHW Acquisition Corporation, a SPAC, in its merger with Wag! Group Co.
- Represented Newcourt Acquisition Corp., a SPAC, in its merger with Psyence Biomedical Ltd.
- Represented a beverage maker in registered follow-on offerings.
- Represented a healthcare services company in its Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings of high-yield debt.
- Represented a technology company in its Rule 144A offering of convertible notes.
- Represented a brand management company in its Rule 144A offering of convertible notes.
- Represented a publicly traded mortgage real estate investment trust (REIT) in its at-the-market (ATM) equity program and its ATM preferred equity program.
- Represented a publicly traded hotel REIT in its ATM equity program.
- Represented multiple REITs in their preferred stock offerings.
- Represented an environmental services company in its sale to a private equity investment firm in an all-cash transaction that valued the company at approximately $1.2 billion.
- Represented a mortgage REIT in its merger with another mortgage REIT, a deal that created the nation’s fourth largest publicly traded commercial mortgage REIT.
- Represented a publicly traded hotel REIT in its acquisition of interests in a property management firm for approximately $331.65 million consisting of nonvoting stock, convertible preferred stock and promissory notes.
- Represented a musical instrument company in its strategic alternatives review and its acquisition by a private equity investment firm for approximately $512 million in cash.
- Represented a private video game company in its sale to a German company for approximately $212 million.
- Represented a Chinese information technology and services company and a Hong Kong private equity firm in their acquisition of retail chain stores.
- Represented multiple investment management firms in asset-backed bond securitization transactions totaling tens of billions of dollars.
- Represented multiple private equity firms, real estate developers and service providers in credit facilities secured by single family properties worth billions of dollars.
- Represented public companies in “going private” transactions.
- Advised boards of directors and special committees in strategic alternatives reviews, and in defense strategies against stockholder activists.
- Extensive experience with reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
- Extensive experience with annual proxy statements and proxy statements in connection with mergers and acquisitions and stockholder activist defense.
Some of these representations were handled by Sunyi prior to joining Haynes Boone.
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- State Bar of Texas, Member
- Dallas Bar Association, Member
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, 2019 Fellow
- DBA WE LEAD: Women Empowered to Lead in the Legal Profession, Member
- Society for Corporate Governance, Member
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- Texas Super Lawyers "Rising Stars," Thomson Reuters, 2015-2021
- The Legal Aid Society – Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award, 2014
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- “New York Fed Releases Frequently Asked Questions on the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF),” co-author, May 2020.
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Education
- J.D., Columbia Law School, 2010, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
- B.A., Georgetown University, 2007, magna cum laude, John Carroll Scholar
Languages
- Chinese (Mandarin)
Admissions
- Texas
- New York