John W. Sheridan

Public M&A

• Turn/River Capital in its $4.4 billion acquisition of SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE: SWI).
• Blackstone Inc., in its $2.3 billion acquisition of Rover Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROVR).
• Vista Equity Partners:
  
  • in its $1.9 billion sale of Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS).
  • in its $8.4 billion acquisition of Smartsheet Inc. (NYSE: SMAR).
  • in its $5.6 billion sale of PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PWSC).
  • in its $8.4 billion acquisition of Avalara, Inc. (NYSE: AVLR).
• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE: SIX) in its $8 billion merger of equals with Cedar Fair, LP (NYSE: FUN).
• CORE Industrial Partners, in its acquisition of Fathom Digital Manufacturing Corporation (NYSE: FATH).

Private M&A

• Dahlia Equity Partners, in its carveout acquisition of Ticketure LLC from TixTrack, Inc.
• CORE Industrial Partners, in its sale of J&K Ingredients to SK Capital.
• Unity Partners:
  
  • in its acquisition of The Byng Group Inc.
  • in its acquisition of Vigil Contracting, LLC.
• Vista Equity Partners:
  
  • in its growth equity investment in Benchmark Gensuite.
  • in its sale of Social Solutions Group to Apax Funds.
  • in its sale of Numerator to Kantar Group.
  • in connection with its partial sale and recapitalization of Aptean, Inc.
  • and its portfolio company iCIMS, Inc., in its acquisition of Altru Labs Inc.
• HGGC:
  
  • in its strategic investment in True North Advisors.
  • in its investment in Warren Averett Asset Management.
  • in its sale of Dealer-FX to Snap-on Inc. (NYSE: SNA) for $200 million.
• K1 Investment Management:
  
  • and its portfolio company Smarsh Inc., in its acquisition of TeleMessage.
  • and its portfolio company Smarsh Inc., in its acquisition of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.
• Serent Capital:
  
  • in its sale of Real Green Systems to WorkWave.
  • in its sale of Docutech, Inc. to First American Financial (NYSE: FAF) for $350 million.
• Gryphon Investors, and its portfolio company PRN, in its acquisition of Spine & Sport.
• Olympus Partners, in its sale of The Foodware Group to CFS Brands.
• TA, in its recapitalization of Advantive and its accompanying growth equity investment.
• FFL Partners, in its acquisition of Abacus Group, LLC.
• Accel-KKR, in its sale of TEAM Software to Workwave.
• Integrity Marketing Group, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners and HGGC, in multiple transactions.
• Software Acquisition Group Inc.:
  
  • in its merger with Otonomo Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: OTMO).
  • in its merger with CuriosityStream Inc. (Nasdaq: CURI).

Capital Markets

• Vista Equity Partners, and its portfolio company Integral Ad Science (Nasdaq: IAS) in its initial public offering.
• Neiman Marcus:
  
  • in its $1.1 billion private offering of 7.125% senior secured notes due 2026.
  • and affiliates in their pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases.
• Arctos NorthStar Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ANAC), a special purpose acquisition company, in its $275 million initial public offering.
• Paya Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: PAYA), in its primary and secondary offerings of common stock.

Teach for America (San Jose Corps)

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John has advised several clients in their immigration proceedings, and has experience briefing and arguing before the Federal circuit, as well as the Executive Office of Immigration Review, including the following:

• Represented a woman from Iraq in her asylum claims and adjustment of status petition.
• Presented oral argument in the Ninth Circuit asserting constitutional challenge on behalf of an immigrant pursuant to her removal proceedings.*
• Represented a woman from Mexico in her asylum, withholding of removal and convention against torture claims.*

*John’s involvement in this matter was prior to joining Kirkland.