John advises a broad range of clients on U.S. and cross-border M&A transactions, including strategic and private equity acquisitions and dispositions, leveraged buyouts and other transactional and corporate governance matters. He also regularly counsels many of the world’s leading investment banks on financial advisory matters. Co-managing partner of Ropes & Gray’s New York office, John has been a frequent speaker on M&A and tender offer transaction topics and has served as adjunct professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he led a class on private equity transactions.
John is recognized as a leading lawyer for M&A and private equity transactions by numerous industry guides, including Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Legal 500 and International Financial Law Review where he is described as “a fantastic, hands-on attorney" who is “always available to us, incredibly thorough and offers practical, solutions-oriented advice” and as “an extremely skillful practitioner” with a “reputation for work in leveraged buyouts.”
Experience
Advised
- New Mountain Capital in its
- Take-private acquisition proposal for R1 RCM
- Strategic investment in The Emmes Company, a tech-enabled clinical research organization
- Acquisition of Aegion, a provider of infrastructure maintenance, rehabilitation and protection solutions
- Sale of majority interest in OneDigital to Onex
- Acquisition of Aceto’s chemicals business in a sale pursuant to Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
- Partnership with MAG Aerospace, a leading turnkey provider of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance solutions to the US government, intergovernmental organizations and allied governments
- Majority investment in a combination of IMA Consulting and Revint Solutions, creating a leading platform offering a full suite of technology-enabled revenue integrity and recovery solutions as well as complex revenue cycle management consulting and interim management services for health care providers
- Partnership with Cytel, Inc., the leading global provider of innovative analytical software and services to the life sciences industry
- Investment in Topix Pharmaceuticals, a leading provider of innovative therapeutic and cosmetic skin care products
- Acquisition of publicly-traded consumable chemical packaged goods company Zep Inc.*
- Acquisition of Covidien’s specialty chemicals business, now called Avantor*
- Signify Health in its sale to CVS Health for approximately $8 billion in total consideration
- CloudMed, a leader in revenue intelligence solutions for healthcare providers, in its $4.1 billion sale to R1 RCM
- Ciox Health in its merger with Datavant in a transaction valued at $7 billion, creating the nation’s largest health data ecosystem
- Revint Solutions in its acquisition of Naveos, a market leader in specialized government reimbursement technology and services for health care providers
- Convey Health Solutions, a leading provider of technology and services for the Medicare Advantage and Part D markets, in its acquisitions of Gorman Health Group, HealthScape Advisors and Pareto Intelligence and its sale to TPG Capital
John also serves as outside counsel to a number of investment banks in their capacity as financial advisor in a wide variety of M&A transactions, including the following recent transactions:
- Sale of Beacon Roofing Supply to QXO
- Rocket Companies’ acquisition of Redfin Corporation
- Sale of Global Blue to Shift4 Payments
- Sale of Playa Hotels & Resorts to Hyatt Hotels
- Sale of Akoya Biosciences to Quanterix
- Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp II’s merger with Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp
- Acquisition of United Development Funding IV by Ready Capital Corporation
- Atlantic Union Bancshares’ acquisition of Sandy Spring Bancorp
- Sale of Arcadium Lithum to Rio Tinto
- Sale of The Shyft Group to Aebi Schmidt Holding
- Playtika’s acquisition of SuperPlay
- Tadano’s acquisition of Manitex International
- Sale of CommScope’s distributed antennas system business and outdoor wireless networks business to Amphenol Corporation
- Victory Capital’s acquisition of Amundi Holdings US
- Sonoco’s acquisitions of Eviosys and Ball Metalpack
- Sale of Alimera to ANI Pharmaceuticals
- Millicom International Cellular S.A’s defense of an unsolicited offer by Atlas Luxco S.à r.l.
- Sale of Macatawa Bank Corporation to Wintrust Financial Corporation
- Golub Capital BDC, Inc. in its merger with Golub Capital BDC 3
- Sale of majority stake in Grant Thornton to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital
- Sale of International Game Technology’s gaming and digital business to an affiliate of Apollo (and prior transaction pursuant to which such business would have been merged with Everi Holdings)
- Sale of Truist’s remaining stake in Truist Insurance Holding to Stone Point Capital and CD&R
- Wyndham Hotels & Resorts’ defense of an unsolicited takeover proposal by Choice Hotels
- Acquisition by Conn’s Inc. of W.S. Badcock
- Bristol-Myers Squibb’s acquisition of Mirati
- Sale of Chase Corporation to an affiliate of KKR
- Sale of Heap Inc. to Content Square SAS
- John Bean Technologies’ sale of its Aero Tech business to Oshkosh Corporation
- Acquisition of Validus by RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd.
- Sale of Univar Solutions to an affiliate of Apollo
- Sale of Aveo Pharmaceuticals to LG Chem Ltd.
- Estée Lauder’s acquisition of Tom Ford and investment in DECIEM Beauty Group
- Quidel’s acquisition of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
- Deere & Company’s acquisition of a majority stake in Kreisel Electric
- Oasis Petroleum’s sale of Oasis Midstream Partners
- ThermoFisher’s acquisition of PPD
- Qualtrics International’s acquisition of Clarabridge
- Frank's International’s merger with Expro Group
- Rice Acquisition Corp.’s business combination with Aria Energy and Archaea Energy
- Sale of Luminex to DiaSorin
- Sale of Golar LNG Partners to New Fortress Energy
- Sale of Oxford Immunotec to Perkin Elmer
- Sale of WildHorse Resource Development Corporation to Chesapeake Energy Corporation
- Comstock Resources’ acquisition of oil and gas interests of Arkoma Drilling, L.P. and Williston Drilling, L.P.
*Representations completed prior to joining Ropes & Gray.