Law360, New York ( May 10, 2013, 5:05 PM EDT) -- Yvan-Claude Pierre is a partner in Reed Smith LLP's New York office and chairman of the firm's capital markets group. He is a capital markets and M&A practitioner who has worked on a full range of securities offerings, with a particular focus on foreign company listings based in Europe, China, India, Australia, Japan, Brazil and Israel. He represents privately held and publicly traded companies, investment banks, financial institutions and private equity sponsors and venture capital firms, in particular emerging and public growth companies, with a strong emphasis on global companies. Pierre provides representation in general corporate matters, corporate finance and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, including advising boards of directors and related committees (and special committees for major transactions). His corporate finance practice includes experience with both private and public offerings. He has been involved in more than 200 capital markets offerings and 100 public and private M&A transactions....