Austin Whan

Senior Associate
Corporate
New York +1 212 556 2243
Experience
  • Advised R1 RCM, a leader in healthcare revenue cycle management, in its sale of par8o, a 340B referral capture business, to NuvemRx
  • Represented Eagle Corporation in its $675 million sale of Concrete Pipe & Precast, LLC, a supplier of precast concrete solutions to the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic regions, to Commercial Metals Company
  • Advised Rick Schnall on the acquisition of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team
  • Represented SIMS Software, an industrial security software provider, in its business combination with TechnoMile, a transaction led by Capital Meridian Partners
  • Advised ENGEL Austria, a leading injection molding machine manufacturer, in its acquisition of certain assets of Trexel, Inc.
  • Advised Delaware Valley Floral Group on its sale to Staple Street Capital
  • Represented Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of Detechtion Holdings
  • Represented Trive Capital on its acquisitions of West Agile Labs and Wavelabs Technologies with co-investor BayLink Capital
  • Advised Wellspring Worldwide, a portfolio company of Resurgens Technology Partners, on its cross border acquisition of IP Pragmatics
  • Represented AgencyBloc, a portfolio company of Resurgens Technology Partners, on its acquisition of Simple Shapes
  • Advised Virtus Real Estate on its sale of a minority ownership interest to Almanac Realty Investors
  • Represented Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Eskola Roofing
  • Advised Resurgens Technology Partners and EnergyCAP in their cross border acquisition of Wattics Limited
  • Represented Resurgens Technology Partners and AgencyBloc in their acquisition of Form Fire
  • Advised Resurgens Technology Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in Wellspring Worldwide
  • Represented Trive Capital in its acquisition of a controlling interest in BPS Supply Group
  • Advised Scofflaw Brewing in its acquisition of Bearded Iris Brewing Company
  • Represented Trive Capital in its acquisition of a controlling interest of Allcat Claims Service
  • Advised Level 5 Capital Partners in its acquisition of various Orangetheory Fitness franchise locations
  • Represented Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Code Ninjas
  • Advised Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of a controlling interest in AgencyBloc
  • Represented Rubicon Bakers, a portfolio company of Trive Capital, in its acquisition of Just Desserts
  • Advised Resurgens Technology Partners in its acquisition of a controlling interest in EnergyCAP
  • Represented MeridianLink in its acquisition of Tazworks
  • Advised Novelis, Inc. as it entered into a definitive agreement with American Industrial Partners to divest a portion of its recently acquired rolled aluminum products manufacturing business for an enterprise value of $330 million
  • Represented Aaron’s, Inc. (NYSE: AAN) in its $1.2 billion spin-off of The Aaron’s Company, Inc. (NYSE: AAN) and the $3.8 billion creation of PROG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRG)
  • Advised Jernigan Capital (NYSE: JCAP) in its $900 million going-private sale to NexPoint Advisors, L.P.
  • Represented H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of a controlling stake in USALCO, LLC
Bio

Austin Whan is an associate in the New York office of King & Spalding and is a member of the Corporate Practice Group.  Austin represents public and private companies, as well as private equity funds, in a wide range of M&A and general corporate matters. Austin is admitted only in Georgia.

Austin received his law degree from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he was an Articles Editor for the Florida Law Review, graduated magna cum laude and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Prior to law school, Austin graduated summa cum laude and received Bachelor of Science degrees in both Economics and Political Science from Texas Christian University. Austin spent his first three years at the Atlanta office of King & Spalding before moving to New York.