John J. Harrington

Experience

Capital Markets

• Counsel to a Nasdaq-listed restaurant industry client in connection with IPO and subsequent follow-on equity offerings, with aggregate value of more than $1 billion. Also represented client in its $230 million Rule 144A convertible notes offering and $300 million Rule 144A senior notes offering.
• Counsel to Nasdaq-listed home furnishings retailer in connection with $168 million IPO.
• Counsel to a NYSE-listed energy industry master limited partnership in a registered $1.6 billion senior notes offering and $300 million common unit offering.
• Counsel to a NYSE-listed insurance industry client in multiple registered senior notes and preferred stock offerings aggregating more than $4 billion.
• Counsel to a NYSE-listed energy industry client in connection with the refinancing of more than $1 billion of subordinated notes through a combination of tender offers and redemptions, issuances of new common shares, convertible notes and secured notes in privately negotiated exchange transactions and the registered offering of new notes.
• Counsel to NYSE-listed industrial packaging company in connection with $500 million Rule 144A senior notes offering to provide acquisition financing.
• Counsel to Nasdaq-listed clinical stage biopharmaceutical company in IPO and subsequent at-the-market offering aggregating approximately $25 million.
• Counsel to privately held steel manufacturer in a $600 million Rule 144A secured notes offering, which was the initial debt securities offering for the issuer.
• Counsel to energy-efficient lighting company in connection with initial listing on Nasdaq and subsequent $50 million underwritten common stock offering.

Mergers and Acquisitions

• Counsel to electric vehicle developer in connection with going public and listing on Nasdaq through a business combination with a SPAC. Also represented client in subsequent equity line of credit financing.
• Buyer counsel to NYSE-listed insurance industry client in strategic acquisition of publicly listed company in approximately $338 million transaction.
• Buyer counsel to NYSE-listed aerospace industry client in multiple strategic acquisitions of publicly listed companies with an aggregate transaction value of over $4 billion.
• Counsel to SPAC sponsors in multiple business combination transactions.
• Company counsel in $800 million “going private” management buyout of a NYSE-listed consumer products industry client.
• Counsel to NYSE-listed aerospace industry client in numerous acquisitions and dispositions of private businesses.
• As part of a cross-practice business and litigation team, represented minority shareholder and director of a Nasdaq-listed insurance company in opposition to an unsolicited tender offer by majority shareholder.

Memberships

• TheCorporateCounsel.net: Board of Advisors