Foley Adds Finance Partner in Boston
Foley & Lardner announced that Jamie Class has joined the firm’s Business Law Department and Finance Practice Group as a partner in its Boston office.
In a release, the firm said Class has more than 20 years’ experience representing U.S. and global clients as issuers of and investors in debt instruments in a wide variety of debt financing and restructuring transactions. She works with clients in a range of industries, including financial services, real estate investment, life sciences, high-tech, emerging energy technology, health care, retail and manufacturing.
The firm said Class has worked with multiple parties to close syndicated secured and unsecured credit facilities, private placements and public offerings of securities, second lien notes, tender offers, exchange offers, consent solicitations, project finance transactions, tax-exempt bond financings, acquisition financings, venture debt and convertible notes, and mezzanine financings. In addition to traditional finance, Class has derivative/swap experience, and more general note purchase agreement and private placement lending experience.
In the past year alone, Class has helped close transactions totaling in excess of $10 billion. Her experience includes representing a publicly traded company in securing committed financing for an acquisition through the issuance of credit agreement debt and a tranche of notes. Class has also represented a client in the purchase and sale of royalty interests, has closed several rounds of senior, junior and mezzanine investments, and has advised clients on London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) transition matters and debt agreement provisions.
Class joined Foley from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP in Boston, where she was a member of the Corporate Practice Group. She received her BA from Hampshire College and her JD from Harvard Law School, from which she graduated cum laude.
