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Austin Whan is an associate in the New York office of King & Spalding and is a member of the Corporate, Finance and Investments 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. 

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Credentials

J.D., University of Florida, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.S. Economics, Texas Christian University, summa cum laude

B.S. Political Science, Texas Christian University, summa cum laude

Georgia

Matters

Advised Delaware Valley Floral Group on its to Staple Street Capital

Represented Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of Detechtion Holdings

Advised Rick Schnall on the acquisition of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team

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Advised Delaware Valley Floral Group on its to Staple Street Capital

Represented Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of Detechtion Holdings

Advised Rick Schnall on the acquisition of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team

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

Matters

Advised Delaware Valley Floral Group on its to Staple Street Capital

Represented Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of Detechtion Holdings

Advised Rick Schnall on the acquisition of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team

See more

Close

Matters

Advised Delaware Valley Floral Group on its to Staple Street Capital

Represented Resurgens Technology Partners on its acquisition of Detechtion Holdings

Advised Rick Schnall on the acquisition of the Charlotte Hornets NBA team

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

Credentials

J.D., University of Florida, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

B.S. Economics, Texas Christian University, summa cum laude

B.S. Political Science, Texas Christian University, summa cum laude

Georgia