O’Melveny Worldwide

C. Brophy Christensen

Corporate Department Co-Chair / Partner

C. Brophy Christensen is Co-Chair of O’Melveny’s Corporate Department and a boardroom-level advisor to sophisticated dealmakers. He counsels public and private companies, financial investors, and investment banks on growth strategies, transformative M&A and investments, significant capital-raising transactions, and business and governance matters.

Brophy has been recognized by The Legal 500 as one of the nation’s top M&A lawyers. Over his more than 25 years in practice, he has advised some of the market’s most active and sophisticated dealmakers on high-profile transactions, including some of the largest completed in recent years. He is also a trusted advisor to innovative private companies, providing full-cycle counseling on venture and growth financings, corporate matters, and IPO and sale transactions.

The Legal 500 similarly recognizes Brophy as a leading Equity Capital Markets and Debt Capital Markets lawyer. In addition to representing corporate issuers and major bank underwriters in the full array of public and private offerings and exchange offers, he advises companies and their boards on corporate governance, securities, and Sarbanes-Oxley issues, as well as investment bank clients on securities law matters.

To further serve clients, Brophy frequently taps his strong network of contacts in the executive, entrepreneur, banker, and investor communities, drawing on those connections to facilitate introductions, identify investment and fund opportunities, and help select the best investors and financial advisors to fit each client’s specific needs.

  • AFC Gamma in its US$100 million initial public offering
  • AFC Gamma in the spin-off of its commercial real estate portfolio into an independent, publicly traded REIT, Sunrise Realty Trust
  • Atlanta Braves Holdings in its secondary public offering of shares of its Series C common stock
  • B. Riley Securities as underwriter of numerous public offerings, including by Bed Bath & Beyond, Lilium N.V., and Ribbon Communications
  • Centrus Energy in its private offering of US$455 million of convertible senior notes
  • Coinbase in its acquisition of FairX
  • CTI BioPharma in more than US$300 million of equity offerings and more than US$300 million of public offerings of convertible securities
  • Electronics For Imaging in corporate and transactional counseling, including more than a dozen strategic acquisitions, numerous capital-raising transactions, and the company’s US$1.7 billion acquisition by Siris Capital Group
  • EPIQ Capital Group in its acquisition by IEQ Capital
  • Formula 1 in the refinancing of its Term Loan B in an aggregate principal amount of US$1.7 billion and the maturity extension of its Term Loan A and revolving credit facility in aggregate principal amounts of US$689 million and US$500 million, respectively
  • Francisco Partners in its acquisition of Foundation 9 Entertainment and in subsequent tack-on acquisitions by Foundation 9 Entertainment, including of Amaze Entertainment and Shiny
  • Liberty Broadband in its acquisition by Charter Communications
  • Liberty Broadband in its private offering of US$1.2 billion of exchangeable senior debentures and its tender offers for US$1.4 billion aggregate principal amount of debentures
  • Liberty Broadband in its private offering of US$1.1 billion of exchangeable senior debentures
  • Liberty Media in its split-off of Atlanta Braves Holdings and in the reclassification of Liberty Media’s existing common stock and the creation of the new Liberty Live Group common stock
  • Liberty Media in its €4.2 billion acquisition of Dorna Sports, S.L., the exclusive commercial rights holder to the MotoGP World Championship, from Bridgepoint and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
  • Liberty Media in the combination of its Liberty SiriusXM tracking stock group with SiriusXM to create a new public company
  • Liberty Media in its US$313 million acquisition of QuintEvents
  • Liberty Media in its private offering of US$575 million of convertible senior notes
  • Liberty TripAdvisor in its acquisition by Tripadvisor
  • Morgan Stanley and other underwriters in the US$1 billion initial public offering of LendingClub
  • Nkarta in its US$252 million initial public offering
  • Palantir Technologies in a US$200 million private placement
  • Surf Air Mobility in its proposed (but ultimately abandoned) US$1.42 billion merger with the Tuscan Holdings Corp. II SPAC, and in its subsequent successful direct listing
  • Western Digital in two secondary public offerings totaling US$1.355 billion

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • California

Education

  • University of California at Los Angeles, J.D.: Order of the Coif, 1997
  • University of California at Los Angeles, B.S., Civil Engineering, 1994

Honors & Awards

  • Recognized by The Legal 500 US in Capital Markets: Equity Offerings (2011-2017, 2024), Capital Markets: Debt Offerings (2011-2017, 2020), and M&A: Middle-Market ($500M-999M) (2020) 

Professional Activities

Publications

  • “Accessing Capital Through Customised PIPE Offerings,”  Eurekahedge e-newsletter (November 15, 2016)