Alaina DeBona

Alaina DeBona focuses her practice on general corporate and securities law matters, including representing issuers and investment banks in capital markets transactions and advising publicly-traded companies and their boards of directors regarding disclosure, corporate governance and other securities law issues. Alaina has experience in a variety of industries, including technology, trade and services, real estate and construction, manufacturing, and automotive, among others. Alaina also has experience representing issuers and underwriters on securities transactions involving real estate investment trusts (REITs).

Alaina represents issuers and investment banks in initial public offerings and follow-on equity offerings (primary and secondary), as well as debt offerings (investment grade and high yield). Alaina has represented issuers throughout all phases of their life cycle, beginning with initial public offering preparations, through the initial public offering process and going on as a reporting public company.

On the compliance and corporate governance side, Alaina regularly counsels public companies on SEC compliance and corporate governance matters, including Exchange Act periodic reports and earnings materials, proxy statements, annual and special meeting processes, Section 16 and Section 13 reporting obligations, stock exchange requirements, disclosure issues and other corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Cooley, Alaina was a corporate associate at Winston & Strawn LLP.

Representative Matters

• Skillz in its $835 million follow-on offering*
• Sprout Social in its $190 million follow-on offering*
• NETSTREIT in its $233 million private placement of common stock pursuant to Rule 144A, Regulation D and Regulation S, subsequent $255 million IPO and $200 million follow-on offering*
• Jefferies and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company as representatives of the underwriters, in the $77 million IPO of Class A Common Stock of Postal Realty Trust and subsequent $52 million and $57 million follow-on offerings*
• William Blair & Company in its $56 million follow-on offering for VSE Corporation*

*Matter handled prior to joining Cooley