James focuses his practice on representing public and private companies, investment banks, sponsors and investors in securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. James also regularly advises public companies on securities law compliance, disclosure and corporate governance matters.

Experience

Capital Markets

  • Represented the underwriters in $350 million notes offering by Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.
  • Represented Acushnet Holdings Corp in its $350 million senior notes offering.
  • Represented the underwriters in $300 million notes offering by Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.
  • Represented Blackstone Life Sciences in a strategic financing collaboration with PTC Therapeutics.
  • Represented the underwriters in secondary offering of Altus Power common stock.
  • Represented the initial purchasers in $350 million notes offering by Barings BDC, Inc.
  • Represented Rallybio in its $92 million initial public offering and subsequent follow-on equity offering.
  • Represented Dragoneer Investment Group in the initial public offering of Dragoneer Growth Opportunities Corp III.
  • Represented the underwriter in follow-on equity offering by TherapeuticsMD.
  • Regularly advises issuers and sales agents in connection with at-the-market offering programs.

M&A

  • Represented Vapotherm, Inc. in in its merger with a newly-formed entity organized and funded by an affiliate of Perceptive Advisors, LLC and its Perceptive Discovery Fund.
  • Represented Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of the Critical Care business of Edwards Lifesciences.
  • Represented Paratek Pharmaceuticals in its sale to Gurnet Point Capital and Novo Holdings.
  • Represented Silver Lake and ServiceMax in the sale of ServiceMax to PTC, Inc.
  • Represented Becton Dickinson in its acquisition of the MedKeeper business of Grifols (Spain).
  • Represented The Michaels Companies in its sale to investment funds managed by Apollo Global Management at an enterprise value of approximately $5.0 billion.

Areas of Practice