Ian G. John, P.C.

Chemicals and Agriculture

• Huntsman Corporation in its:
  • $300 million acquisition of CVC Thermoset Specialties
  • $350 million acquisition of Icynene-Lapolla
  • $2.1 billion sale of its chemical intermediates and surfactants businesses to Indorama Ventures
  • $350 million acquisition of Demilec Inc.
  • merger with Clariant with a combined enterprise value of approximately $20 billion
• CF Industries in its:
  • $4.7 billion unsolicited acquisition of Terra Industries and simultaneous defense of a hostile offer by Agrium. In its inaugural issue on innovative lawyers in the United States, the Financial Times recognized the Terra acquisition and Agrium defense as the most innovative M&A transaction in 2010*
  • $1.4 billion sale of its phosphate business to The Mosaic Co.*
  • $910 million acquisition of a stake in Canadian Fertilizers Limited, owned by Viterra*

Energy

• SemGroup Corporation in its pending $5.1 billion sale to Energy Transfer LP
• Callon Petroleum Company in its $3.2 billion acquisition of Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc.
• C&J Energy Services in an approximately $1.8 billion merger-of-equals with Keane Group
• Amplify Energy Corp. in an all-stock merger-of-equals with Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. 
• H.I.G. Capital in its sale of Enerwise Global Technologies, Inc. d/b/a CPower to LS Power
• Talen Energy in its $1.6 billion sale to Riverstone
• Chevron in its $4.3 billion acquisition of Atlas Energy*
• XTO Energy in its $41 billion sale to Exxon Mobil*
• Coastal Corporation in its $16 billion acquisition by El Paso Energy*

Food and Beverage

• Butterfly-backed Orgain, a plant-based functional nutrition platform, in its sale of a majority stake to Nestlé Health Science
• Ahold Delhaize in its acquisition of FreshDirect 
• L Catterton and Ainsworth Pet Nutrition in the $1.9 billion sale of Ainsworth Pet Nutrition to The J.M. Smucker Company
• Mead Johnson Nutrition in its $17.9 billion sale to Reckitt Benckiser Group plc.
• Roundy’s Inc. in its $800 million sale to Kroger Co.
• Centerbridge Partners L.P. in connection with the acquisition of Splenda by Heartland Food Products from McNeil Nutritionals, LLC.
• Anheuser-Busch InBev in its $21 billion acquisition of the remaining stake of Grupo Modelo it did not already own, including participating on the defense team in related private and public litigation*
• Archer Daniels Midland Company in its $3.1 billion acquisition of WILD Flavors GmbH (Switzerland)*
• JBS S.A. in its acquisitions of Smithfield Beef Group and Five Rivers Ranch Cattle Feeding LLC*

Life Sciences

• Francisco Partners-backed Capsule Technologies in its $635 sale to Royal Philips
• Radiology Partners in its $885 million acquisition of MEDNAX Radiology Solutions, a division of MEDNAX, Inc.
• Riverchase Dermatology in its merger with Water’s Edge Dermatology; deal cleared in 60 days 
• TerSera Therapeutics LLC in the purchase of XERMELO® from Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc. 
• Kinderhook Industries in its acquisition and merger of PharMedQuest Pharmacy Services and Tailwind Capital-backed Long’s Drugs
• Cambrex Corporation in its $2.4 billion agreement to be acquired by Permira
• Paragon Bioservices Inc., a contract development and manufacturing organization backed by NewSpring Health Capital and Camden Partners, in its $1.2 billion sale to drug development and delivery technology company Catalent Inc.
• TowerBrook Capital Partners and its portfolio company TriMedx in its $300 million acquisition of Aramark's Healthcare Technologies management division
• Thomas H. Lee Partners and Curo Health Services LLC in its $1.4 billion sale of Curo to Humana Inc., TPG Capital LP and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe LP
• VWR in its $6.4 billion sale to Avantor
• CoverMyMeds, LLC in its $1.1 billion sale to McKesson Corporation
• The Gores Group in its $1.3 billion sale of Therakos, an immunotherapy company, to a subsidiary of Mallinckrodt plc
• Express Scripts in its $29.1 billion acquisition of Medco Health Solutions, including participating on the litigation defense team in a last-minute private antitrust challenge to the transaction. This acquisition was recognized in the 2012 Financial Times "US Innovative Lawyers" report*
• Genesis HealthCare Corporation in its acquisition of Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. and its $275 million acquisition of Sun Healthcare*
• Stryker Corporation in its $1.7 billion acquisition of MAKO Surgical Corp., its $1.5 billion acquisition of the neurovascular division of Boston Scientific, its $500 million acquisition of Ascent Healthcare Solutions, its $318 million acquisition of Orthovita and various other matters*
• Endo Pharmaceuticals in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Qualitest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from Apax Partners*
• Guidant Corporation in connection with its proposed acquisitions by Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific*
• Amerigroup in its $4.9 billion merger with WellPoint*
• HealthSpring in its $3.8 billion sale to Cigna*
• Deere & Company in the sale of its health plan to UnitedHealth Group*
• PacifiCare Health Systems in its merger with UnitedHealth Group*
• UnitedHealth Group in its acquisition of Oxford Health Plans*

Media and Telecom

• Avaya Holdings Corp. in its strategic partnership with RingCentral, Inc. 
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in its $1.3 billion sale of nineteen stations in fifteen markets to TEGNA and The E.W. Scripps Company
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in its $6.4 billion acquisition of Tribune Media Co.
• Charter Communications in its formation of a 50/50 operating platform partnership with Comcast Corporation
• Harland Clarke Holdings, the parent company of Valassis, on Valassis' acquisition of Maxpoint Interactive 
• Clear Channel Outdoor in its sales of assets of its Americas Outdoor segment in certain non-strategic outdoor markets
• Blackstone in its acquisition of SESAC Holdings, a leading music rights organization, from Rizvi Traverse Management
• Tribune Publishing Co. (n/k/a tronc, Inc.) in its defense of an unsolicited acquisition proposal from Gannett Co.
• Nexstar Broadcasting Group in connection with its $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General, ending a six-month public takeover battle during which Nexstar jumped Media General’s previously announced transaction with Meredith Corp.

Technology

• Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $2.5 billion sale of Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. to CDW Corporation 
• Grubhub in its $7.3 billion acquisition by Just Eat Takeaway.com
• Optimal Blue in its $1.8 billion sale to Black Knight
• Sagent Auto in its merger with defi SOLUTIONS
• Ten-X in its sale to CoStar Group
• Blackstone in its $22 billion merger of Kronos Incorporated and Ultimate Software
• MDSL and Sumeru Equity Partners in the merger of MDSL with Calero Software 
• Alight Solutions in its acquisition of Wipro's Workday and Cornerstone OnDemand business
• GTCR and GreatCall, Inc. in the $800 million sale of GreatCall, Inc. to Best Buy Co., Inc.
• Silver Lake in its:
  • $500 million investment in Credit Karma
  • $700 million acquisition of Cast & Crew Entertainment Services and subsequent acquisition of CAPS Payroll
• Micro Focus International plc in its $8.8 billion acquisition of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company’s software business
• Epiq Systems in its $1 billion sale to OMERS Private Equity and Harvest Partners
• EQT on its sale of Automic Software to CA Technologies
• IGATE Corporation in its $4.04 billion merger with Cap Gemini S.A.
• ASML in its $2.5 billion acquisition of Cymer and its $5.2 billion sale of a 25 percent equity stake to three major customers (Intel Corporation, Samsung and TSMC) and their associated commitment to provide ASML with at least $1.7 billion in R&D funding*
• GTCR in its:
  • sale of Convergex to Cowen
  • and Convergex in the combination of LiquidPoint and Dash Financial
  • $390 million acquisition of Fundtech*
• Novell in its acquisition by Attachmate and in the concurrent sale of its intellectual property assets to CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organized by Microsoft*

Transportation

• Blackstone Infrastructure Partners, Blackstone Core Private Equity, Cascade and Global Infrastructure Partners, in the $4.73 billion proposed take private of Signature Aviation 
• General Motors in its:
  • $2.8 billion investment from Honda in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, GM’s autonomous vehicle (AV) business, at a $14.6 billion valuation
  • $2.25 billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund in GM Cruise Holdings LLC, GM’s autonomous vehicle (AV) business, at an $11.5 billion valuation
• Swift Transportation in its $6 billion stock-for-stock merger with Knight Transportation
• Consolidated Aviation Services, a portfolio company of ICV Partners, in its sale to Worldwide Flight Services, a portfolio company of Platinum Equity
• Bain Capital Private Equity in its:
  • acquisition of Big Tex Trailers from HIG Capital
  • acquisition of American Trailer Works from Southlake Equity Group and subsequent merger with Big Tex Trailers
• Warburg Pincus in its $1.8 billion sale of Coyote Logistics to UPS
• Laidlaw International, an operator of school and passenger buses, in its $36 billion acquisition by FirstGroup, an operator of passenger trains, passenger buses and school buses*

Other

• Global Infrastructure Partners in its pending $12.5 billion sale to BlackRock
• BAE Systems in its $5.55 billion acquisition of Ball Corp.'s defense and commercial space unit Ball Aerospace
• Amer Sports, along with its investor consortium, in its $420 million sale of Amer’s Precor division to Peloton
• Ingersoll-Rand plc in its $1.45 billion acquisition of Precision Flow Systems
• Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation in its $4.7 billion acquisition of ILG
• SoftBank in its $3 billion acquisition of Fortress Investment Group
• Boise Cascade in its acquisition of wood products production facilities from Georgia Pacific
• Building Materials Holding Corporation in its all-stock merger with Stock Building Supply Holdings, Inc., valued at approximately $1.5 billion
• OAO Severstal, a producer of steel based in Russia, in the $2.3 billion sale of its subsidiaries Severstal Columbus, LLC and Severstal Dearborn, LLC to Steel Dynamics Inc. and AK Steel Corporation*
• BlackRock Inc. in its $9.7 billion acquisition of the Merrill Lynch Investment Management business from Merrill Lynch*
• Oakley in its $2.1 billion acquisition by Luxottica Group*
• Stillwater Mining Company in its $341 million sale of a 51 percent stake to MMC Norilsk Nickel, a mining company in Russia*
• TRW in its:
  • $11.8 billion merger with Northrop Grumman*
  • $1.5 billion sale of Aeronautical Systems Group to Goodrich*
• Honeywell in its $14 billion business combination with AlliedSignal and its attempted $45 billion acquisition by General Electric*

*Prior to Kirkland