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    James M. Shea Jr.

    Special Counsel

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    New York

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    sheaj@sullcrom.com

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    James Shea is a special counsel in the Firm’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. His practice covers a broad range of corporate and transactional matters in markets across North America and Europe. His experience includes advising public and private clients on capital markets, mergers and acquisitions transactions, and providing corporate governance and U.S. securities law advice. He regularly advises special purpose acquisition companies, their underwriters and their placement agents in IPOs and “de-SPAC” business combinations. He has represented issuers, investors, underwriters and buyers and sellers in public and private capital-raising and acquisition transactions in a variety of contexts. He advises clients in the technology, media and telecommunications space, as well as in a wide range of other industries, including consumer and retail, financial institutions, healthcare and life sciences, oil and gas and transportation.

    Speaking Engagements

    • Spoke on a panel titled “ESG: Putting Theory into Practice” as part of the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s 57th Annual Corporate Counsel Institute (September 27, 2018)
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    S&C Advises SoftBank Group in Formation of the First Bitcoin-Native Public Company

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    Experience

    Experience

    Capital Markets

    • APA Group in its initial U.S. offering of $750 million guaranteed senior notes
    • AST SpaceMobile in common stock offerings aggregating over $200 million and establishing at the market offering program and committed equity facility
    • the underwriters of AT&T Inc. in capital markets transactions totaling over $100 billion of SEC-registered debt
    • Chrysler Group LLC (now known as FCA US LLC) in its initial public offering (transaction abandoned), initial registration statement with the SEC, and multiple refinancings
    • Coronado Global Resources Inc. in its initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange

    • DISH Network in spectrum-backed high yield financings
    • Ferrari N.V. and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (now Stellantis N.V.) as its principal shareholder in Ferrari’s initial public offering and de-merger
    • Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (now Stellantis N.V.) in its listing on the New York Stock Exchange and Mercato Telematico Azionario organized by the Borsa Italiana, and multiple capital markets offerings including debt, equity and mandatory convertible securities
    • Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in its debt capital markets transactions
    • LSC Communications, Inc. and Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc. in their respective secondary offerings of shares of common stock held by former parent R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
    • the underwriters of Mobileye Global Inc. in its initial public offering and follow-on offering
    • Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group Pty Ltd. in its initial $325 million senior secured notes issued in the U.S. private placement market
    • Popular, Inc. in its initial public offering of EVERTEC, Inc. common stock (emerging growth company) as selling stockholder and follow-on public offerings of EVERTEC, Inc. common stock
    • Protara Therapuetics, Inc. in its $45 million PIPE financing and in its $100 million common stock offering
    • Quality Care Properties, Inc. in its spin-off from HCP Inc.
    • R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company in spin-off transactions of LSC Communications, Inc. and Donnelley Financial Solutions, Inc.
    • TelevisaUnivision in its high-yield debt offerings
    • Vector Group Ltd. in its high-yield debt offerings
    • the underwriters of Visa Inc. in debt and equity capital markets transactions
    • Woolworths Limited in its spinoff and initial public offering of SCA Property Group

    M&A

    • AST SpaceMobile in its strategic investments from and commercial arrangements with wireless industry companies
    • Better HoldCo in its $6.9 billion acquisition by SPAC Aurora Acquisition Corp.
    • DISH Network in its merger with EchoStar, its agreement with T-Mobile, Sprint and the U.S. Department of Justice under which DISH acquired Sprint’s prepaid wireless business and entered the U.S. wireless market as the fourth nationwide facilities-based provider, its $800 million acquisition of EchoStar’s Broadcast Satellite Service Business, its transaction with Liberty Latin America’s $256 million acquisition of DISH spectrum assets in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and prepaid mobile subscribers in those markets and numerous strategic transactions and investments to build out and deploy its wireless network
    • Fiat S.p.A. in acquiring 100% ownership of Chrysler Group LLC
    • Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. in its cross-border merger and redomiciliation
    • Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan as financial advisers to Twitter in its $44 billion acquisition by an entity wholly owned by Elon Musk
    • Goldman Sachs as financial adviser to Zynga in its $12.7 billion acquisition by Take-Two Interactive
    • Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in its acquisition financing for acquisitions of NYSE Euronext and Interactive Data Holdings Corporation
    • LSC Communications, Inc. in its proposed acquisition by Quad/Graphics, Inc. (later terminated)
    • LSC Communications, Inc. in its acquisition of the print logistics business of R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
    • Popular, Inc. in its spin-off of EVERTEC, Inc. into a joint venture with funds affiliated with Apollo (September 2010), subsequent reorganization of ownership interest in EVERTEC, Inc. (April 2012) and continuing ownership of minority interest in EVERTEC, Inc.
    • Quality Care Properties, Inc. in its acquisition of HCR ManorCare, Inc.
    • SoftBank Group in connection with Twenty One’s pending business combination with Cantor Equity Partners, a SPAC sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, through which Twenty One will become a public company majority-owned by Tether and Bitfinex, with significant minority ownership by SoftBank
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises SoftBank Group in Formation of the First Bitcoin-Native Public Company

      April 25, 2025
    • S&C Advises TelevisaUnivision on $755 Million Notes Offering 

      October 21, 2024
    • S&C Advises TelevisaUnivision on $500 Million Notes Offering as Part of $1 Billion Debt Refinancing

      June 20, 2024
    • S&C Advises AST SpaceMobile in Strategic Investment to Support the Commercial Rollout of First of Its Kind Space-Based Cellular Broadband Network

      January 31, 2024
    • S&C Advises DISH Network in Merger Agreement with EchoStar

      August 24, 2023
    • S&C Advises Underwriters in Mobileye IPO

      October 28, 2022
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    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    Publications, Videos and Podcasts

    • Sustainability Reporting: What Should Companies Be Doing?

      Podcasts February 25, 2019
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Fordham University School of Law, J.D., 2009
    • Georgetown University, B.A., 2004

    Bar Admissions

    • California
    • New York
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    Related Practices

    Related Practices

    • General Practice
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Capital Markets
    • M&A Financial Advisory and Valuation
    • Media & Telecommunications
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
    • Technology
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