James P.C. Barri

James Barri is a partner, Co-Chair of the Capital Markets practice and Co-Chair of the Debt Capital Markets practice. James works on a variety of corporate and securities matters, including public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, tender and exchange offers, securities law compliance for public and private companies and other general corporate matters.

James’ experience in corporate finance transactions includes representing underwriters, placement agents, initial purchasers, dealers and issuers in public and private high yield, convertible and investment grade debt and equity offerings, and equity derivatives in a broad array of industries, including technology, life sciences, REITs, media, manufacturing, energy and retail. James has recently represented:

• Wayfair Inc. in connection with multiple 144A or 4(a)(2) offerings of more than $3.5 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes and concurrent call spread transactions
• Okta, Inc. in connection with multiple 144A offerings of more than $2.4 billion aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes, concurrent call spread transactions and multiple private exchange offers for existing convertible notes
• Global Blood Therapeutics in connection with a 144A offering of $345 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes and a concurrent call spread transaction
• Atlassian Corporation Plc in connection with a 144A offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of cash exchangeable senior notes and a concurrent call spread transaction
• Medical Properties Trust in connection with multiple 144A, Regulation S and registered offerings of more than $10 billion aggregate principal amount of high yield and investment grade notes in various currencies
• Gaming and Leisure Properties in connection with multiple registered offerings of more than $7.0 billion aggregate principal amount of high yield and investment grade notes and multiple tender offers
• Boyne USA, Inc. in connection with multiple 144A and Regulation S offerings of $580 million aggregate principal amount of senior secured high yield notes and $540 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured high yield notes and related refinancing transactions
• PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. in connection with multiple 144A and Regulation S offerings of more than $1.8 billion aggregate principal amount of high yield notes
• Several leading investment banks, as initial purchasers and dealers, in connection with multiple 144A offerings of $2.3 billion aggregate principal amount convertible senior notes by Snap, Inc. and concurrent call spread transactions
• Several leading investment banks, as initial purchasers and dealers, in connection with multiple 144A offerings of more than $2 billion aggregate principal amount convertible senior notes by RingCentral, Inc. and multiple concurrent call spread transactions
• Several leading investment banks, as initial purchasers, in connection with a 144A offering of €145 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes by Talend S.A., which represents the first U.S. convertible note offering by a French organized company
• Several leading investment banks, as initial purchasers and dealers, in connection with a 144A offering of $750 million aggregate principal amount convertible senior notes by Lyft, Inc. and a concurrent call spread transaction

James is recognized by Chambers USA (2021-2024) as Band 1, for Capital Markets: Nationwide Convertible Debt. The Legal 500 recognizes James as a recommended lawyer for Capital Markets: Debt Offerings as well as Capital Markets: Equity Offerings (2021-2024).