John is a Capital Markets, Public Company Advisory & Governance, and Special Situations partner with more than 25 years of experience advising issuers, underwriters, and other market participants in a wide range of equity and debt financing transactions. He has significant experience advising on initial public and follow-on equity offerings, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, and private placements. John also regularly advises on structuring and executing cross border financing, liability management, and special situation transactions, having advised on matters involving a wide range of jurisdictions, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, France, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.  

John has worked with a wide variety of companies across many industries, including consumer products, technology, life sciences, energy, telecommunications, and financial services. He has advised on transactions for issuers as diversified as Arm Holdings, Riot Platforms, RH (formerly Restoration Hardware), PepsiCo, Monster Beverage, Omnicom, Tate & Lyle, and Vonage.  

In addition to routinely advising issuers, investors, and other market participants on the structuring and execution of debt capital markets transactions, John also frequently collaborates with cross-practice teams to advise on and structure in-court and out-of-court restructuring and other liability management transactions. 

John has completed coursework at the University of Cambridge on sustainable finance and serves on the firm’s ESG steering committee. He also co-leads the MoFo Proud Affinity Network and serves on the firm’s New York hiring committee. John has regularly been recognized as an IFLR1000 notable practitioner and by The Legal 500 for his work on capital markets transactions.

Representative Experience

Capital Raising Transactions

• Arm Holdings plc, the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, in its blockbuster $5.22 billion USD IPO on Nasdaq, the largest IPO of 2023
• Riot Platforms, Inc., a leading Bitcoin-driven infrastructure platform, on its $594 million offering of 0.75% convertible senior notes due 2030
• Sprint Corp. in connection with its $1.0 billion guaranteed notes offering
• Celadon Partners as lead investor in a $47.6 million PIPE investment in Nasdaq-listed Senti Biosciences, Inc.
• Vonage in its $300 million convertible note offering
• RH’s issuance of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of convertible notes
• FTI Consulting in its $316.25 million convertible note offering
• Lodha Developers, a leading developer of luxury real estate in India, in its $200 million secured bond offering by its UK subsidiary
• Counsel to A Paradise Acquisition Corp. on its $200 million IPO

Special Situations and M&A Transactions

• SoftBank Group’s refinancing of $530 million of outstanding debt of Better Home & Finance Holding Co., together with a new investment in $155 million of secured debt issued by Better.
• SoftBank Group’s investment in 6% senior notes issued by Fair Technologies
• Counsel to an institutional senior secured noteholder in connection with an out-of-court exchange offer and recapitalization transaction by Associated Materials
• Counsel to an ad hoc group of former noteholders in connection with the proposed initial public offering of Southeastern Grocers, following its chapter 11 bankruptcy
• Counsel to the ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders, in the chapter 11 cases of EP Energy
• Counsel to the ad hoc group of first lien noteholders, as noteholders and backstop DIP lenders, in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Sanchez Energy
• Sprint in connection with its $1.7 billion tender offers for 9.000% Guaranteed Notes and 8.375% Notes