John G. O'Connell

John O’Connell is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department. John focuses his practice on corporate finance, particularly in capital markets and securities law matters. He has experience in a wide range of financing transactions including high yield and investment grade debt offerings, IPOs, pre-IPO financings, primary and secondary offerings, acquisition financings, liability management transactions and other types of capital markets transactions. His practice covers a broad range of industries, including media and technology, healthcare, industrials, consumer retail and travel and leisure. He has deep market knowledge of covenant and product terms and regularly advises on corporate governance and other general corporate finance matters.

Representative examples of John’s capital markets experience include:

• high yield offerings by Carnival, Raising Canes, Avis Budget, Hertz, Endo, TelevisaUnivision, Exeter, OI Glass, Brink’s, CPI Card Group, MasterBrand, Deluxe, Mativ, Alta Equipment Group, EnerSys, Knife River, Hanes, Cimpress, Bloomin’ Brands, Brinker, Lithia Motors, USA Compression, Lonestar Resources, Vivint Smart Home, Hilton Grand Vacations and others
• acquisition financings for Arcosa, Vertiv, Global Auto Holdings, STERIS, Baxter International, Rent-A-Center, CommScope, WPX Energy, Diebold and others
• exchange offers or other liability management transactions for Endo, United Site Services, Anywhere Real Estate, Five Point Holdings, Carnival, Empire Communities, InterDigital, Johnson Controls, Hovnanian and others
• equity offerings by Nuvalent, Zai Lab Ltd., Sotera Health Company, CompoSecure, AST SpaceMobile and others
• the re-IPO of Hertz and IPOs of U.S. Xpress and The Container Store as well as Bentley Systems in its IPO and follow-on offerings
• investment grade debt offerings by Walmart, Equifax, Waste Connections, Kimberly-Clark and others