Apostolos Gkoutzinis is a partner in the capital markets group of the London office of Shearman and Sterling, with a focus on US federal securities laws, high yield debt offerings and international capital markets transactions in general. He is recognized as one of the leading lawyers in the European debt capital markets in general and high yield market in particular, and has represented issuers, sponsors and underwriters in a wide variety of corporate and leveraged buy-out high yield bond offerings, investment grade debt offerings, equity offerings and other transactions. He has also played a central role in several liability management transactions involving investment grade and high… yield debt securities.