Jennifer Ybarra Taylor
Associate
Jennifer represents clients on a broad range of corporate matters including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance matters, disclosure obligations and other public company advisory matters.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Represented Chuy’s Holdings, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed owner and operator of Tex-Mex restaurants, in its $605 million sale to Darden Restaurants, Inc., a NYSE listed restaurant company.
- Represented Granite Construction Incorporated, a NYSE listed construction company, in connection with multiple private offerings of convertible senior notes totaling $747.75 million.
- Represented American States Water Co., a NYSE-listed water and electric utility provider, in connection with its "at-the-market" equity offering program pursuant to which it may sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate sales price of up to $200 million.
- Represented Ducommun, Inc., a NYSE listed provider of value-added innovative manufacturing solutions to customers in the aerospace, defense, and industrial markets, in connection with its public offering of common stock for gross proceeds of $92 million in which Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. RBC Capital Markets LLC and B. Riley Securities, Inc. acted as joint book-running managers.
- Represented NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, in connection with multiple public offerings of its 5.75% Senior Notes due 2026 totaling $170 million in which Raymond James & Associates, Inc. served as sole book-running manager.
- Represented NexPoint Real Estate Finance, Inc., a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, in connection with public offering of 2 million shares of its common stock.
- Represented Ranger Energy Services, Inc., a NYSE-listed independent provider of well service rigs and associated services, in connection with a private placement of $42 million Series A Preferred Stock to fund the acquisition of Basic Energy Services, Inc. assets sold as part of Basic's bankruptcy process.
- Represented Benson Hill, Inc., a NYSE listed food technology company, in connection with its business combination with Star Peak Corp II, a SPAC.
- Represented Farmer Bros., a Nasdaq listed coffee company, in connection with its $100 million sale of its direct-ship business to TreeHouse Foods, Inc., a NYSE listed private label manufacturer.
- Represented a publicly traded telecommunications provider in connection with $6.7 billion take-private sale to a publicly traded owner and operator of communications businesses.
- Represented a publicly traded security technology provider in connection with $275 million acquisition of cloud cybersecurity firm and related private placement of preferred stock totaling $100 million.
- Represented publicly traded distributed commerce network provider in connection with $1.1 billion take-private sale to private equity firms.
- Represented publicly traded telecommunications provider in connection with the sale of $1 billion stake in publicly traded online lending marketplace provider.