Giles Detwiler

Beal IV

Position: Associate
Office: New Orleans

Det Beal is an associate in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group, where he advises clients across the corporate life cycle, from formation to general corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, venture financings and related liquidity events, and other corporate transactions.

Det advises domestic and international businesses, business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors on a wide variety of corporate transactions and debt and equity investments. He has worked with incubators such as Idea Village and helped form startups and other business enterprises across the country with interests and operations in healthcare, technology, data services, cannabis, and other leading industries. Det counsels clients at every stage of the corporate life cycle, from corporate formations and early-stage and angel financing through initial public offerings and secondary capital raises, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and leadership transitions.

He understands the interests and objectives of parties on all sides of the negotiating table. Before entering private practice, Det served in the legal department of a global investment bank, where he assisted in drafting and structuring fund-of-fund credit facilities, bank holding company regulatory submissions, and fixed-income and equity derivative trading documentation. He also helped structure funds to comply with regulatory restrictions and advised on bank regulatory issues involving domestic and international new business initiatives, among other responsibilities.

Prior to joining Jones Walker, Det was an associate in the Charlotte office of an Am Law 100 firm, where he assisted clients with a broad range of securities offerings, corporate governance matters, and mergers and acquisitions. His clients ranged from multinational, publicly traded corporations and global investment banks to privately held companies, family offices, and startups.

Throughout the course of his professional career, Det has served as issuer’s and underwriter’s counsel for private and Securities and Exchange Commission registered offerings and has provided counsel on billions of dollars of debt and preferred stock issuances, including serving as issuer’s counsel for a $15 billion senior debt issuance that was, at the time, the largest in US bank history.