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MoFo Advises Augmedix in Uplisting to Nasdaq and $40 Million Underwritten Public Offering

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Morrison & Foerster advised Augmedix, Inc., a leading provider of virtual medical documentation and live clinical support, in connection with the company’s underwritten public offering of 10 million shares of its common stock at a public offering price of

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Morrison & Foerster advised Augmedix, Inc., a leading provider of virtual medical documentation and live clinical support, in connection with the company’s underwritten public offering of 10 million shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $4 per share. Augmedix’s common stock began trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol “AUGX” on October 26, 2021.Augmedix offers virtual medical documentation and live clinical support to large healthcare systems and physician practices, supporting medical offices, clinics, hospitals, emergency departments, and telemedicine practices nationwide. Its Ambient Automation Platform converts the natural conversation between physicians and patients into timely and comprehensive medical notes, and provides a suite of related services. Augmedix plans to use the net proceeds it receives from the offering to fund increased investment in sales and marketing, research and development, and general and administrative costs as Augmedix increases its scale.The MoFo deal team advising Augmedix was led by San Francisco corporate partner John Rafferty, New York corporate partner John Owen, Washington, D.C. partner David Lynn, Washington, D.C. associate Mary Katherine Rawls, and San Francisco associate Ken Taylor.Read more about the transaction in Augmedix’s <a target="_blank" href="https://ir.augmedix.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/38/augmedix-inc-announces-uplisting-to-nasdaq-and-pricing-of">press release</a>.

MoFo Advises Augmedix in Uplisting to Nasdaq and $40 Million Underwritten Public Offering

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John Rafferty focuses his practice on representing emerging growth companies in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters. John's practice includes private financings, public financings, mergers, tender offers, and strategic and financial investments.John advises emerging growth companies backed by venture capital and private equity firms on all corporate, transactional and financing matters. He also advises early and late-stage investors in capital raising transactions. John's practice also includes extensive experience in preferred stock financings, debt financings, and secondary offerings.John led the launch of MoFo’s <a href="https://scaleup.mofo.com/" target="_blank">ScaleUp website</a> which is focused on providing resources to start-up companies, entrepreneurs, and early-stage investors.John also regularly counsels boards of directors of public companies on corporate governance issues, fiduciary duty matters (both generally and in the M&A context), compliance with the U.S. federal securities laws, and compliance with the listing standards of NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.John's transactional and counseling background has involved matters for clients in a broad range of industries, including technology and Internet-based businesses; life sciences and healthcare; communications and media; and retail.

John M. Rafferty

Partner

John is a Capital Markets, Public Company Advisory & Governance, and Special Situations partner with more than 20 years of experience advising issuers, underwriters, and other market participants in a wide range of special situations, equity, and debt financing transactions. He has significant experience advising on refinancing and liability management transactions, initial public offerings, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, and private placements. John also regularly advises on structuring and executing cross border financing, liability management, and special situation transactions, having advised on matters involving a wide range of jurisdictions, including China, Hong Kong, Japan, France, India, Indonesia, Israel, Singapore, and the United Kingdom.  John has worked with a wide variety of companies across many industries, including consumer products, technology, life sciences, energy, telecommunications, and financial services. He has advised on transactions for issuers as diversified as Arm Holdings, RH (formerly Restoration Hardware), PepsiCo, Monster Beverage, Omnicom, Tate & Lyle, and Vonage.  In addition to routinely advising issuers, investors, and other market participants on the structuring and execution of debt capital markets transactions, having advised on aggregate financing transactions in excess of $50 billion in the last ten years, John also frequently collaborates with cross-practice teams to advise on and structure in-court and out-of-court restructuring and other liability management transactions. John has completed course work at the University of Cambridge on sustainable finance and serves on the firm’s ESG steering committee. He also serves on the firm’s diversity and inclusion committee as well as its New York hiring committee. John has regularly been recognized as an IFLR1000 notable practitioner and by The Legal 500 for his work on capital markets transactions. <h4>Representative Experience</h4><h5>Capital Raising Transactions</h5><ul><li>Arm Holdings plc, the world’s leading semiconductor IP company, in its blockbuster $5.22 billion USD IPO on Nasdaq, the largest IPO of 2023</li><li>Sprint Corp. in connection with its $1.0 billion guaranteed notes offering</li><li>Vonage in its $300 million convertible note offering</li><li>RH’s issuance of $300 million in aggregate principal amount of convertible notes</li><li>FTI Consulting in its $316.25 million convertible note offering</li><li>TransDigm Group in its offering of $500 million Senior Subordinated Notes by its UK subsidiary</li><li>Lodha Developers, a leading developer of luxury real estate in India, in its $200 million secured bond offering by its UK subsidiary</li></ul><h5>Special Situations</h5><ul><li>SoftBank Group’s investment in 6% senior notes issued by Fair Technologies</li><li>Counsel to an institutional senior secured noteholder in connection with an out-of-court exchange offer and recapitalization transaction by Associated Materials</li><li>Counsel to an ad hoc group of former noteholders in connection with the proposed initial public offering of Southeastern Grocers, following its chapter 11 bankruptcy</li><li>Counsel to the ad hoc group of senior secured noteholders, in the chapter 11 cases of EP Energy</li><li>Counsel to the ad hoc group of first lien noteholders, as noteholders and backstop DIP lenders, in the chapter 11 bankruptcy of Sanchez Energy</li><li>Lodha Developers International in its consent solicitation relating to $200 million of 12% Guaranteed Senior Notes</li><li>Sprint in connection with its $1.7 billion tender offers for 9.000% Guaranteed Notes and 8.375% Notes</li><li>Frontier Communication in the concurrent fixed price tender offers to purchase any and all of its 6.625% Senior Notes and any and all of its 7.875% Senior Notes, and in a modified Dutch auction tender offer to purchase up to $225 million aggregate principal amount of its 8.250% Senior Notes</li></ul>

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Ken Taylor is a corporate associate in the firm's San Francisco office.Ken earned his J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law. Prior to attending law school, Ken worked as a paralegal. He holds a B.A. from UC San Diego.Before joining Morrison & Foerster’s Corporate Department, Ken was a summer associate in the Tokyo office during the summer of 2019.Ken is proficient in Japanese.

Ken Taylor

Associate

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Emerging Companies + Venture Capital