Eric Scarazzo

Eric M. Scarazzo is a partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.  He is a member of the firm’s Capital Markets Practice Group and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Group.  He also is a member of the firm’s Public Company Industry Group and Cleantech Industry Group.  The broad range of clients that Mr. Scarazzo represents includes issuers and underwriters, public, private, and private equity portfolio companies, and businesses from development-stage to blue chip.  Clients span the geographic spectrum from U.S.-based to foreign and multinational.

Mr. Scarazzo is involved in some of the firm’s most complicated and high-profile securities transactions.  Additionally, he has been a certified public accountant for over 20 years.  His deep familiarity with both securities and accounting matters permits Mr. Scarazzo to play an indispensable role supporting practice groups and offices throughout the firm.  He provides critical guidance to clients navigating the intersection of legal and accounting matters, principally as they relate to capital markets financings and M&A disclosure obligations.

Mr. Scarazzo’s practice covers both the conduct of securities offerings and service as clients’ outside corporate counsel.  He advises in a wide range of areas, such as capital raising transactions, reporting obligations under the Exchange Act (including significant advisory work with respect to acquisition reporting), prospective and remedial stock exchange compliance, and Section 13 and 16 beneficial ownership reporting.  As day-to-day outside counsel he also assists clients in communicating with investors and the U.S. stock markets, and ensuring they fulfill their disclosure obligations with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

His recent and ongoing experience includes advising:

• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. (TSX: AQN) (NYSE: AQN), a Canadian-based energy company, in the remarketing of $1,150,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2026
• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. in a public offering of 23,000,000 equity units with proceeds of $1,150,000,000
• Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. in a $500 million at-the-market offering of common shares
• Coeur Mining, Inc., a U.S.-based diverse precious metals producer, in a $50 million at-the-market offering of common stock
• Enovis Corporation in a private offering of $460 million of Convertible Senior Notes due 2028
• IperionX Limited, an Australia-based titanium company, in its U.S. listing and private offerings of ordinary shares
• Liberty Utilities Co., a subsidiary of Algonquin Power, in a private offering of $850 million of Notes due 2029 and due 2034
• Piedmont Lithium, Inc., a U.S.-based lithium company, in a $50 million at-the-market offering of common stock
• SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., a global energy technology company, in a public offering of 2,300,000 shares of common stock
• South Jersey Industries, Inc., a U.S.-based energy company, in its remarketing of equity units
• StepStone Group Inc., a global private markets investment company, in its initial public offering and subsequent secondary offerings
• Stem, Inc. in a private offering of $240 Million of Green Convertible Senior Notes due 2030

Mr. Scarazzo received his Juris Doctor, with a concentration in Corporate Law, in 2005 from the University of California, Los Angeles.  He earned a master’s degree in Accounting, with a concentration in Tax Consulting, in 2000, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, Economics and Accounting in 1999, from the University of Virginia.

Mr. Scarazzo is a certified public accountant in California and Virginia.  Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, in the Dispute Analysis & Investigations Practice, primarily working in the Securities and Exchange Commission Group.

Mr. Scarazzo is admitted to practice in the State of New York.