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About Jeremy Barr
Jeremy focuses on capital markets matters.
His practice focuses on the representation of issuers and underwriters in public and private debt, equity and hybrid securities offerings. He regularly advises on the US securities law aspects of public and private M&A transactions. He also advises on corporate governance matters, periodic reporting, listing requirements and other general corporate matters.
In 2023/24 Jeremy was seconded to the legal department of Morningstar, Inc., a leading global provider of independent investment insights.
Jeremy is actively involved in pro bono matters. He represents veterans with disability claims before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2019 he received the Jeremy G. Epstein Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Service from the City Bar Justice Center of the New York City Bar Association.
Recent work
Capital Markets & Finance Highlights
- Multiple debt offerings by Republic Services and Kroger.
- Multiple debt and equity offerings by Ares Capital.
- Convertible notes offerings by Cazoo, DocuSign, Ares Capital, Granite Point Mortgage Trust, Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation, Capitala Investment Corp. and TPG Specialty Lending.
- Secondary listings on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and SEC-registered offerings of Alibaba, ZTO Express, Baozun and Huazhu Group.
- Dual primary listing on the Hong Stock Exchange and SEC-registered offering of XPeng.
- Canaan Inc.'s $90 million IPO and listing on Nasdaq.
- La Française des Jeux on its €1.6 billion IPO and listing on Euronext.
- 21Vianet’s $340 million offering of ADSs.
- 111, Inc.’s $100 million IPO and listing on Nasdaq.
- Coupa Software's $516 million public offering of common stock.
- SPAC IPOs of bleuacacia ltd, Sports Entertainment Acquisition Corp., PROOF Acquisition Corp I, Southport Acquisition Corporation, Nebula Acquisition Corp., Legacy Acquisition Corp., Matlin & Partners Acquisition Corporation, Gores Holdings II, Inc., Saban Capital Acquisition Corp. and Silver Run Acquisition Corporation.
- Team Inc. on its $250 million term loan, $150 million ABL facility and repurchase of $137 million of convertible notes.
M&A Highlights
- Blackstone portfolio company, Schenck Process Group, on the sale of its food and performance materials business to Hillenbrand, Inc.
- CarLotz on its sale to Shift Technologies.
- Cazoo on its $7 billion business combination with US SPAC AJAX I, including a concurrent $800 million PIPE.
- KLX Energy Services on its all stock merger with Quintana Energy Services.
- International General Insurance on its Nasdaq listing, PIPE capital raise and merger with SPAC Tiberius Acquisition Corp.
- London Stock Exchange on its $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv from a consortium including Blackstone, CPPIB, GIC and Thomson Reuters.
- Henderson Group on its $6 billion all-stock merger of equals with Janus Capital and listing on the NYSE.
- Wincor Nixdorf on its $1.8 billion business combination with Diebold.
- Interoute Communications on the financing aspects of its sale to cloud networking company GTT Communications.
Qualifications
- JD, Stanford University Law School.
- AB, University of Chicago.
- Admitted to practice in the State of New York.