John is a Capital Markets, Public Company Advisory & Governance, and Special Situations partner with more than 20 years of experience advising issuers, underwriters, and other market participants in a wide range of special situations, equity, and debt financing transactions. He has significant experience advising on refinancing and liability management transactions, initial public 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, 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, 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, having advised on aggregate financing transactions in excess of $50 billion in the last ten years, 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 course work at the University of Cambridge on sustainable finance and serves on the firm’s ESG steering committee. He also serves on the firm’s diversity and inclusion committee as well as its 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

• Sprint Corp. in connection with its $1.0 billion guaranteed notes offering

• 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

• TransDigm Group in its offering of $500 million Senior Subordinated Notes by its UK subsidiary

• Lodha Developers, a leading developer of luxury real estate in India, in its $200 million secured bond offering by its UK subsidiary

Special Situations

• 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

• Lodha Developers International in its consent solicitation relating to $200 million of 12% Guaranteed Senior Notes

• Sprint in connection with its $1.7 billion tender offers for 9.000% Guaranteed Notes and 8.375% Notes

• Frontier Communication in the concurrent fixed price tender offers to purchase any and all of its 6.625% Senior Notes and any and all of its 7.875% Senior Notes, and in a modified Dutch auction tender offer to purchase up to $225 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.250% Senior Notes