Robyn Zolman

Robyn E. Zolman is partner in charge of the Denver office of Gibson Dunn, where she practices in the firm’s Capital Markets and Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance Practice Groups. Robyn represents clients in connection with a broad range of capital markets transactions. She advises clients with respect to SEC registered and Rule 144A offerings of investment grade, high-yield and convertible notes, as well as initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, at-the-market equity offering programs, PIPE offerings and issuances of preferred securities. In addition, she has extensive experience with tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations and corporate restructurings. Robyn also regularly advises clients regarding securities regulation and disclosure issues and corporate governance matters, including Securities and Exchange Commission reporting requirements, stock exchange listing standards, director independence, counseling boards of directors, and insider trading compliance. She provides disclosure counsel to clients in a number of industries, including energy, life sciences, home building, consumer products and telecommunications.

Robyn is ranked by Chambers USA for Energy & Natural Resources – Colorado. She has been listed in Best Lawyers in America® – Denver Corporate Law, Securities / Capital Markets for many years, and was named a 2021 Lawyer of the Year for Securities/Capital Markets Law, Denver. She is also listed as a Notable Practitioner for Debt and Equity Capital Markets by IFLR1000 and has been recognized as a Top Lawyer: Securities by 5280 Magazine for many years. Additionally, Robyn has been selected as a “Next Generation Lawyer in Capital Markets: Debt Offerings” by The Legal 500 U.S. and has received accolades from Lawdragon and Women in Business Law, among others. She has been named a Top Woman in Energy multiple times by the Denver Business Journal and to its Who’s Who in Energy list and was one of the Denver Business Journal’s 40 under 40 in 2017. In 2015, Law360 selected Robyn as one of eight “Rising Star” capital markets attorneys under 40 to watch nationwide.

Her recent and ongoing experience includes:

Capital Markets Transactions

• Advising The Williams Companies on numerous issuances, tender offers and exchange offers involving over $60 billion of debt and equity securities, including its 2024 issuances of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes across three tranches and $2.2 billion aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes across two tranches.
• Advising Atmos Energy Corporation on issuances of over $10 billion of debt securities and $7 billion of shares of common stock in numerous transactions, including registered debt issuances, at-the-market equity offerings and equity forward sale transactions.
• Advising D.R. Horton, Inc. on issuances of over $6 billion of debt securities in numerous transactions, including most recently its issuance of $700 million aggregate principal amount of 5.000% Senior Notes due 2034.
• Advising Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. on the issuance of $575 million aggregate principal amount of its Convertible Senior Notes due 2028.
• Advising Vail Resorts, Inc. on the issuance of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its $6.500% Senior Notes due 2032.
• Advising Jabil Inc. on numerous issuances of senior notes, including its inaugural green bond offering.
• Advising Forestar Group Inc. on issuances of $1.4 billion of debt and equity securities, including through at-the-market equity offering programs.
• Advising Zayo Group on its initial public offering and numerous debt issuance and liability management transactions.
• Advising numerous life sciences and pharmaceutical companies with respect to issuances of common stock and pre-funded warrants.

Corporate Counseling

• Advising publicly traded clients across various industries regarding SEC reporting, securities regulatory matters and corporate governance.
• Advising boards of directors of publicly traded companies regarding governance matters and significant transactions.

Strategic Transactions

• Advising publicly traded clients with respect to spin-offs and IPO carve out transactions.
• Advising publicly traded clients with respect to corporate restructurings, including MLP simplification transactions.
• Advising publicly traded clients with respect to acquisitions and divestitures and related financings.

Robyn graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2002, where she served as an executive editor of the Harvard Law Review. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies summa cum laude from the University of Colorado in 1999.

Capabilities

• Capital Markets
• Energy Regulation and Litigation
• Energy and Infrastructure
• Life Sciences
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Oil and Gas
• Power and Renewables
• Securities Regulation and Corporate Governance

Credentials

Education:

• Harvard University - 2002 Juris Doctor
• University of Colorado, Boulder - 1999 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Colorado Bar