Overview
James Parry focuses his practice on public and private mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions. He regularly advises corporations and private equity sponsors on a broad range of domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts, carve-outs, restructurings, joint ventures and minority investments and corporate governance matters.
Results
- Represented Global Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of MAP® RE/ES, the renewable energy business of MAP® Energy*
- Represented Palladium Equity Partners in its investment in Quirch Foods, one of the largest distributors of food products in the Southeastern US, Latin America and the Caribbean*
- Represented Palladium Equity Partners portfolio company Quirch Foods in its acquisitions of Butts Foods, a protein distributor serving the Southeast and Midwest, and Colorado Boxed Beef, one of the leading suppliers of protein products in the US*
- Represented Carlyle in its acquisition of The Hilb Group, a leading national insurance broker*
- Represented Carlyle portfolio company Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, in its acquisition of York Risk Services Group, a provider of risk management, claims administration, managed care and absence management solutions*
- Represented Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Venture Global LNG, Inc.’s Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility*
- Represented KKR in its investment in Covenant Physician Partners (formerly known as Covenant Surgical Partners), a leading acquirer and operator of ambulatory surgery centers and physician practices*
- Represented Solus, the largest shareholder of Bristow Group, a provider of offshore oil and gas transportation, search and rescue and aircraft support services, in Bristow’s merger with Era Group, a NYSE-listed helicopter operator*
- Represented EQT in the restructuring of its portfolio company Data Intensity, a leading independent managed services provider for enterprise applications, databases, business intelligence solutions and analytics*
- Represented Livingston International, an international trade-services firm, which specializes in customs brokerage, freight forwarding and trade consulting, in its sale to Platinum Equity*
- Represented IO Data Centers, a leading colocation data center services provider, in its sale to Iron Mountain*
- Represented Radial, a leading player in omnichannel commerce technology and operations, in its sale to bpost*
- Represented Lexington Partners in a secondary liquidity transaction for capital commitments of approximately $1 billion to TPG’s fifth and sixth Asia funds*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott.
Credentials
Education
Columbia Law School, LLM, James Kent Scholar, 2017
BPP University Law School, LPC, 2005
BPP University Law School, GDL, 2004
University of Cambridge, BA with honors, 2003
Admissions
New York
England and Wales
