Mr. Farris is a general corporate and securities attorney with broad experience in corporate finance matters, including representations involving public and private, domestic and international offerings of debt, equity and hybrid securities and secured and unsecured financed transactions. He has worked on over 150 significant capital markets securities offerings during the course of his career. Mr. Farris also is experienced in mergers, acquisitions, going private and going dark transactions as well as representations of Boards of Directors and special committees in M&A and conflict situations in addition to general corporate and compliance representations.

Mr. Farris has also been active in transactions involving corporate and high-yield debt restructuring work, representing bondholders, issuers, bondholder committees, collateral agents and trustees. Such restructuring work has included public and private, domestic and cross border exchange offers, consent solicitations, indenture amendments and new money issuances for troubled debt restructurings.

Mr. Farris has substantial international experience in Europe, Asia and Latin America with particular country experience in China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Norway, Portugal, Russia and the United Kingdom.