Biography
Lidia Kurganova is an associate in Weil's Capital Markets practice and is based in New York. Lidia participates in advising issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors in connection with public and private offerings of securities and other capital markets transactions. She has been involved in investment grade and high-yield debt offerings as well as primary and secondary equity offerings.
Lidia has been part of the teams advising on the following matters:
- AYR Wellness Inc., as issuer, in connection with its plan of arrangement, which included the issuance $243 million of Senior Secured Notes and warrants to purchase subordinate voting shares.
- The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. in its $650 million offering of investment grade senior unsecured notes
- Mizuho Securities USA LLC, as sales agent, in an at-the-market offering program for $75 million of common stock by Sonida Senior Living, Inc.
- Morgan Stanley, as underwriter, in a $2.9 billion block trade of approximately 100,000,000 shares of common stock of Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. by JAB BevCo B.V. and a concurrent repurchase of 35,000,000 shares of common stock by Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.
- Morgan Stanley, RBC Capital Markets and another financial institution, as representatives of the underwriters, in its $116 million offering of common stock by Sonida Senior Living, Inc.
- Truist, Wells Fargo, and a leading financial institution, as representatives of the underwriters, in $500 million offering of senior notes by McCormick & Company, Inc.
- The underwriters in connection with a marketed secondary offering of 18,000,000 shares of Fluence Energy, Inc.’s Class A common stock by Siemens, AES and QIA as selling stockholders
Lidia received her J.D. from Washington and Lee University School of Law, where she was the Managing Online Editor of Law Review. Lidia received her B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, and her B.A. in Economics, cum laude, from the University of Florida.