Barret Jackson Nye

Mr. Nye’s transactional work includes advising on initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, high-yield debt offerings, debt exchange offers, and tender offers and consent solicitations.

Notable going-public transactions include:

• American Integrity Insurance ($125 million IPO)
• American Savings Bank ($150 million IPO)
• Casper Sleep ($100 million IPO)
• Centuri ($300 million IPO)
• Circle Internet ($1.1 billion IPO)
• Clearwater Analytics ($600 million IPO)
• FaZe Clan (de-SPAC)
• First Carolina Financial Services ($75 million IPO)
• Forbright ($150 million IPO)
• Gain Therapeutics ($50 million IPO)
• Gemini Space Station ($450 million IPO)
• Orion180 Insurance (240 million IPO)
• Riskified ($425 million IPO)
• Rivian Automotive ($11.9 billion IPO)
• Signa Sports United (de-SPAC)
• SmileDirectClub ($1.3 billion IPO)
• Squarespace (direct listing)
• Vertex ($450 million IPO)
• Zeta Global ($200 million IPO)

Other notable equity and debt offerings include:

• BlackRock ($13.3 billion equity offering, over $3 billion of debt offerings)
• Invesco Mortgage Capital (over $550 million of equity offerings)
• Las Vegas Sands ($2 billion equity offering)
• Lucid Group ($1.5 billion funding, convertible preferred stock and term loan)
• Party City (restructuring/recapitalization)
• Rivian Automotive ($1.2 billion equity offering, over $3.2 billion of convertible notes)
• Royal Caribbean Cruises (over $2 billion of equity offerings, over $7.5 billion of debt offerings)
• SharkNinja (inaugural U.S. transaction, over $1.3 billion of equity offerings)

Mr. Nye serves on Skadden’s Recruiting Committee and is actively involved in the firm’s corporate training program. Outside of his legal practice, Mr. Nye has lectured on IPOs and venture capital exit options at Columbia Law School. During law school and business school, he worked with Duke Capital Partners, where he sourced, screened, conducted diligence on and executed early-stage investments in Duke-affiliated startups.