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John M. Anderson represents strategic companies and financial sponsors in a variety of complex business transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, carveouts and joint ventures, and has advised on well over $100 billion in transactions. His deal experience spans the range of M&A activity, including LBOs, strategic mergers, cross-border deals, activist investors and other special situations, SPAC transactions and REIT M&A. John began his career as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.
John counsels clients in a wide variety of industries, including in the infrastructure, real estate, chemicals, healthcare and technology sectors. John also advises private equity funds in growth capital investments and in the management of their portfolio companies, including debt and equity financings, follow-on acquisitions and liquidity events.
Selected transactions include representing:
Xerox in its $35 billion takeover bid for rival HP
Darwin Deason and Carl Icahn on their litigation to block Xerox's $6.1 Billion sale to FujiFilm, which resulted in a settlement and takeover of Xerox by stockholders
Post Properties in its $4 billion merger of equals with Mid-America Apartment Communities
Americold 20+ M&A transactions (all M&A activity since its IPO), with in excess of $4 billion in capital deployed
Roper Technologies in 20+ M&A transactions, including in $2.44 billion in divestitures of legacy business lines
Brookfield in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AT&T’s colocation business
comScore in its settlement with activist investor Starboard Value
Representative PE clients include:
ACON Investments
Brookfield
H.I.G. Capital
Northlane Capital
Thomas H. Lee
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
A.B. Economics, Davidson College
Georgia
New York
December 3, 2020
King & Spalding Elects 16 New Partners and Promotes Five Counsel Across Nine Cities
October 16, 2020
K&S advises Americold on $1.74B acquisition of Agro Merchants Group
October 13, 2020
Americold to Acquire Agro Merchants Group for $1.740 billion
Infrastructure, Real Estate and Energy
Transocean (NYSE: RIG) in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG)
Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AT&T's (NYSE: T) colocation business
Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) in its $4 billion all-stock merger with Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA)
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April 10, 2019
Additional Lessons From AT&T/Time Warner: Self-Help Remedies in Merger Challenges
May 1, 2017
Purchase Price Adjustments for Tax Benefits
October 13, 2016
Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Litigation Arising from Controller Buyout of Books-A-Million Under "MFW" Framework
December 3, 2020
King & Spalding Elects 16 New Partners and Promotes Five Counsel Across Nine Cities
October 16, 2020
K&S advises Americold on $1.74B acquisition of Agro Merchants Group
October 13, 2020
Americold to Acquire Agro Merchants Group for $1.740 billion
Infrastructure, Real Estate and Energy
Transocean (NYSE: RIG) in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG)
Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AT&T's (NYSE: T) colocation business
Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) in its $4 billion all-stock merger with Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA)
See more
April 10, 2019
Additional Lessons From AT&T/Time Warner: Self-Help Remedies in Merger Challenges
May 1, 2017
Purchase Price Adjustments for Tax Benefits
October 13, 2016
Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Litigation Arising from Controller Buyout of Books-A-Million Under "MFW" Framework
December 3, 2020
King & Spalding Elects 16 New Partners and Promotes Five Counsel Across Nine Cities
October 16, 2020
K&S advises Americold on $1.74B acquisition of Agro Merchants Group
October 13, 2020
Americold to Acquire Agro Merchants Group for $1.740 billion
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
A.B. Economics, Davidson College
Georgia
New York