Jimmy Lacey is a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright's New York office and is a member of the firm's Corporate, M&A, Securities group. Jimmy represents sellers and buyers in public and private domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and restructurings with a focus on private equity transactions for fund sponsors and their portfolio companies and related corporate governance matters. His experience in this sector focusses on representing private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in structuring and executing platform investments, add-on acquisitions and full and partial exit transaction together with related corporate governance and shareholder matters and financings.

Additionally, Jimmy also handles US equity and debt securities issuances and other capital markets transactions. While he has represented both US and non-US clients, Jimmy has substantial experience advising entities from across Canada in making acquisitions, divestitures and investments in the US, advising on transactions that may be subject to US regulation and in raising capital in the US through publicly offered and privately placed debt and equity. He is familiar with the cross-border elements of these transactions, including the SEC rules, interpretations and accommodations for foreign private issuers and for Canadian companies eligible to use the MJDS system.