John M. Anderson
<p>John M. Anderson represents strategic companies and financial sponsors in a variety of complex business transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures,&nbsp;carveouts
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Real Estate, Infrastructure and Energy

Jamestown, an investment firm with $13 billion in AUM, in its 50/50 strategic partnership with Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG)

Preferred Apartment Communities (NYSE: APTS) in its $5.8 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust

CatchMark Timber Trust (NYSE: CTT) in its $5 billion all-stock merger with PotlatchDetic Corporation (Nasdaq: PCH)

Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AT&T's (NYSE: T) colocation business

Transocean (NYSE: RIG) in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG)

Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) in its $4 billion all-stock merger with Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA)

Cortland Partners in its $1.2 billion take-private acquisition of Pure Multi-Family REIT LP (TSX: RUF.U)

Vertical Cold Storage on its acquisition of the cold storage business of Dothan Warehouse

Vertical Cold Storage in its acquisition of MWCold Holdings

Vertical Cold Storage in its acquisition of cold storage facilities from United States Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $1.74 billion acquisition of Agro Merchants from Oaktree Capital (NYSE: OAK-A)

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $1.24 billion acquisition of Cloverleaf from Cloverleaf management and an investor group led by private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE: BX)

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $480 million acquisition of Hall's Warehouse

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $376.5 million acquisition of Forem Facilities Management

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its CAD$337 million acquisition of Nova Cold Logistics from Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE: BBU)

Americold (NYSE:COLD) in its acquisition of PortFresh Holdings from an affiliate of Tengelmann Group

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Lanier Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of MHW Group's cold storage business

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Newport Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of AM-C Warehouses

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Caspers Distribution

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of KMT Brrr

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of ColdCo

MMA Capital (NASDAQ: MMAC) in its $161.7 million going-private sale to Fundamental Advisors

Jernigan Capital (NYSE: JCAP) in its $900 million going-private sale to NexPoint Advisors

Prologis (NYSE: PLD) in its $890 million 20/80 joint venture with Ivanhoé Cambridge in Brazil

Virtus Real Estate in its minority sale to Almanac Realty Investors, the PE-real estate arm of Neuberger Berman

BrightView Landscapes (NYSE: BV) in its acquisitions of Marina Landscape Maintenance, Inc., Urban Tree Care, Girard Environmental Services, The Groundskeeper, Signature Coast Holdings, Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Baytree Maintenance and Intermountain Plantings,

Special Situations

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) in its abandoned $35 billion tender offer and proxy fight for HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ)

Darwin Deason in Xerox's (NYSE: XRX) settlement with Deason and Carl Icahn

Darwin Deason in his shareholders agreement with Conduent (NYSE: CNDT)

comScore's Special Committee (NASDAQ: SCOR) in its settlement with Starboard Value

Books-A-Million's Special Committee (NASDAQ: BAMM) in a going private 13e-3 transaction

Ormat Technologies' Special Committee (NYSE: ORA) on its merger with its parent entity

Industrials and Chemicals

H.I.G. Capital in its pending sale of USALCO to TJC (formerly The Jordan Company)

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of American Rental Company

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of a specialty chemicals business of Brenntag Southwest

Cerberus Capital Management on its acquisition of Mina Group FZCO, an Omani petroleum storage business

Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its acquisition of an 85% controlling interest in Cardone Industries

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the $2.5 billion sale of its Waterworks business to CD&R

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the $825 million sale of its Power Solutions business to Anixter International Inc. (NYSE: AXE)

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the sale of its Interior Solutions business to Littlejohn & Co.

Zep Inc. (NYSE: ZEP) in its $692 million going-private sale to New Mountain Capital

BlueLinx (NYSE: BXC) in its $413 million acquisition of Cedar Creek from Charlesbank

Georgia-Pacific in the $325 million sale of its pine chemicals business to Ingevity (NYSE: NGVT), and the sale of its paper chemicals business to Nalco

Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA) in its $140 million acquisition of Krausz Industries

ACON Investments in its acquisition of Pine Environmental Services

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Tesco Controls

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Altivia Chemicals

H.I.G. Capital in the merger of its portfolio company USALCO with G2O Technologies, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of MISCOwater

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of The Henry P. Thompson Company

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of a controlling stake in USALCO, LLC

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisitions of Al Chem Specialties and CalCHEM

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of LANSCO Colors

Apollo Industries in its sale to an affiliate of The Pritzker Group

Suprajit Engineering in its acquisition of Wescon Controls from Nova Capital

Brighton Partners in its sale of US Tarp to Shur-Co

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Eskola Roofing

Healthcare

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its pending $550 million going-private sale to Altaris

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its $3.9 billion SPAC merger with Falcon Capital

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its acquisition of doc.ai

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its acquisition of CareLinx from Generali Global Assistance

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of AYA Medical Spa

Arbor Pharmaceuticals, a portfolio company of KKR, in its $700 million sale to Azurity Pharmaceuticals

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $350 million sale of ZETEC, its nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions business, to Eddyfi/NDT

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $120 million sale of its CIVCO Radiotherapy to Blue Wolf Capital

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $925 million sale of its Gatan business to Thermo Ametek (NYSE: AME)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in the now-terminated $925 million sale of its Gatan business to Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $365 million acquisition of the EPSi business from Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in the $225 million sale of its scientific imaging business to Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of PCI Medical, Inc.

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of GeneInsight

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of UNIConnect

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Team TSI

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Horizon Lab Systems, LLC from The F. Dohmen Co.

EndoChoice (NYSE: GI) in its $210 million sale to Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX)

Change Healthcare (NASDAQ: CHNG) in its acquisition of Nucleus.io, the technology business of NucleusHealth

Change Healthcare (NASDAQ) in its acquisition of Prometheus Analytics and Payformance Solutions TrustHub

Highland Capital Management in its sale of American HomePatient, Inc. to an affiliate of The Linde Group

Tellus in its acquisition by Netsmart Technologies

Sharp Details in its acquisition by PrimeFlight Aviation Services, a portfolio company of Carlyle

Retail and Consumer

IQV Ventures in its pending $504 million take-private acquisition of The Aaron's Company

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Impact, a Neighborly franchisee of Mr. Electric, Mr. Rooter and Precision Garage Door

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of AmeriSpec and Furniture Medic from Roark Capital

CCF Holdings in its acquisition of TitleMax

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (NASDAQ: PLKI) in its $1.8 billion sale to Restaurant Brands International (NYSE: QSR)

Roark Capital in its $730 million sale of Atkins Nutritionals to Conyers Park Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company

Carter’s (NYSE: CRI) in its $140 million acquisition of Skip Hop, a portfolio company of Fireman Capital Partners, and the acquisitions of its Mexican licensees, Industrias Bunny Baby and Operación Eficaz

The management team of Oakbridge Insurance Agency in its sale to Audax Private Equity

Thomas H. Lee Partners in its sale of Prime Risk Partners

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Roblin Insurance

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Old National Insurance

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Cook Maran

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

NCR Voyix (NYSE: VYX) in its pending $2.45 billion sale of its digital banking business to Vertias Capital

Dude Perfect in its strategic partnership with Highmount Capital and HL Investments

Carmike Cinemas (NASDAQ: CKEC) in its $1.1 billion cash-stock sale to AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), and in its acquisition of Sundance Cinemas

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $640 million of Kount from CVC Capital

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $1.825 billion acquisition of Appriss Insights from Clearlake Capital

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its acquisition of HIRETech

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $63 million acquisition of ID Watchdog (TSX: IDW)

Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) in its $475 million purchase of MyFitnessPal

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $675 million acquisition of Aderant Holdings from Madison Dearborn

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of MGA Systems from Polaris Partners

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Avitru from Alpine Investors

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of American LegalNet

Northlane Capital in its sale of SMG to Onex

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of OnCenter Software from Accel-KKR

Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC in stadium development and sponsorship matters.

Real Estate, Infrastructure and Energy

Jamestown, an investment firm with $13 billion in AUM, in its 50/50 strategic partnership with Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG)

Preferred Apartment Communities (NYSE: APTS) in its $5.8 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust

CatchMark Timber Trust (NYSE: CTT) in its $5 billion all-stock merger with PotlatchDetic Corporation (Nasdaq: PCH)

Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AT&T's (NYSE: T) colocation business

Transocean (NYSE: RIG) in its $2.7 billion acquisition of Ocean Rig UDW (NASDAQ: ORIG)

Post Properties (NYSE: PPS) in its $4 billion all-stock merger with Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA)

Cortland Partners in its $1.2 billion take-private acquisition of Pure Multi-Family REIT LP (TSX: RUF.U)

Vertical Cold Storage on its acquisition of the cold storage business of Dothan Warehouse

Vertical Cold Storage in its acquisition of MWCold Holdings

Vertical Cold Storage in its acquisition of cold storage facilities from United States Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $1.74 billion acquisition of Agro Merchants from Oaktree Capital (NYSE: OAK-A)

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $1.24 billion acquisition of Cloverleaf from Cloverleaf management and an investor group led by private equity funds managed by Blackstone (NYSE: BX)

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $480 million acquisition of Hall's Warehouse

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its $376.5 million acquisition of Forem Facilities Management

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its CAD$337 million acquisition of Nova Cold Logistics from Brookfield Business Partners (NYSE: BBU)

Americold (NYSE:COLD) in its acquisition of PortFresh Holdings from an affiliate of Tengelmann Group

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Lanier Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of MHW Group's cold storage business

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Newport Cold Storage

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of AM-C Warehouses

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of Caspers Distribution

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of KMT Brrr

Americold (NYSE: COLD) in its acquisition of ColdCo

MMA Capital (NASDAQ: MMAC) in its $161.7 million going-private sale to Fundamental Advisors

Jernigan Capital (NYSE: JCAP) in its $900 million going-private sale to NexPoint Advisors

Prologis (NYSE: PLD) in its $890 million 20/80 joint venture with Ivanhoé Cambridge in Brazil

Virtus Real Estate in its minority sale to Almanac Realty Investors, the PE-real estate arm of Neuberger Berman

BrightView Landscapes (NYSE: BV) in its acquisitions of Marina Landscape Maintenance, Inc., Urban Tree Care, Girard Environmental Services, The Groundskeeper, Signature Coast Holdings, Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Baytree Maintenance and Intermountain Plantings,

Special Situations

Xerox (NYSE: XRX) in its abandoned $35 billion tender offer and proxy fight for HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ)

Darwin Deason in Xerox's (NYSE: XRX) settlement with Deason and Carl Icahn

Darwin Deason in his shareholders agreement with Conduent (NYSE: CNDT)

comScore's Special Committee (NASDAQ: SCOR) in its settlement with Starboard Value

Books-A-Million's Special Committee (NASDAQ: BAMM) in a going private 13e-3 transaction

Ormat Technologies' Special Committee (NYSE: ORA) on its merger with its parent entity

Industrials and Chemicals

H.I.G. Capital in its pending sale of USALCO to TJC (formerly The Jordan Company)

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of American Rental Company

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of a specialty chemicals business of Brenntag Southwest

Cerberus Capital Management on its acquisition of Mina Group FZCO, an Omani petroleum storage business

Brookfield (NYSE: BAM) in its acquisition of an 85% controlling interest in Cardone Industries

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the $2.5 billion sale of its Waterworks business to CD&R

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the $825 million sale of its Power Solutions business to Anixter International Inc. (NYSE: AXE)

HD Supply (NASDAQ: HDS) in the sale of its Interior Solutions business to Littlejohn & Co.

Zep Inc. (NYSE: ZEP) in its $692 million going-private sale to New Mountain Capital

BlueLinx (NYSE: BXC) in its $413 million acquisition of Cedar Creek from Charlesbank

Georgia-Pacific in the $325 million sale of its pine chemicals business to Ingevity (NYSE: NGVT), and the sale of its paper chemicals business to Nalco

Mueller Water Products (NYSE: MWA) in its $140 million acquisition of Krausz Industries

ACON Investments in its acquisition of Pine Environmental Services

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Tesco Controls

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of Altivia Chemicals

H.I.G. Capital in the merger of its portfolio company USALCO with G2O Technologies, a portfolio company of Arsenal Capital

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of MISCOwater

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of The Henry P. Thompson Company

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of a controlling stake in USALCO, LLC

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisitions of Al Chem Specialties and CalCHEM

H.I.G. Capital in its acquisition of LANSCO Colors

Apollo Industries in its sale to an affiliate of The Pritzker Group

Suprajit Engineering in its acquisition of Wescon Controls from Nova Capital

Brighton Partners in its sale of US Tarp to Shur-Co

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Eskola Roofing

Healthcare

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its pending $550 million going-private sale to Altaris

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its $3.9 billion SPAC merger with Falcon Capital

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its acquisition of doc.ai

Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) in its acquisition of CareLinx from Generali Global Assistance

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of AYA Medical Spa

Arbor Pharmaceuticals, a portfolio company of KKR, in its $700 million sale to Azurity Pharmaceuticals

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $350 million sale of ZETEC, its nondestructive testing (NDT) solutions business, to Eddyfi/NDT

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $120 million sale of its CIVCO Radiotherapy to Blue Wolf Capital

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $925 million sale of its Gatan business to Thermo Ametek (NYSE: AME)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in the now-terminated $925 million sale of its Gatan business to Thermo Fisher Scientific (NYSE: TMO)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $365 million acquisition of the EPSi business from Allscripts (Nasdaq: MDRX)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in the $225 million sale of its scientific imaging business to Teledyne Technologies (NYSE: TDY)

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of PCI Medical, Inc.

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of GeneInsight

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of UNIConnect

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Team TSI

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Horizon Lab Systems, LLC from The F. Dohmen Co.

EndoChoice (NYSE: GI) in its $210 million sale to Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX)

Change Healthcare (NASDAQ: CHNG) in its acquisition of Nucleus.io, the technology business of NucleusHealth

Change Healthcare (NASDAQ) in its acquisition of Prometheus Analytics and Payformance Solutions TrustHub

Highland Capital Management in its sale of American HomePatient, Inc. to an affiliate of The Linde Group

Tellus in its acquisition by Netsmart Technologies

Sharp Details in its acquisition by PrimeFlight Aviation Services, a portfolio company of Carlyle

Retail and Consumer

IQV Ventures in its pending $504 million take-private acquisition of The Aaron's Company

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of Impact, a Neighborly franchisee of Mr. Electric, Mr. Rooter and Precision Garage Door

Eagle Merchant Partners in its acquisition of AmeriSpec and Furniture Medic from Roark Capital

CCF Holdings in its acquisition of TitleMax

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (NASDAQ: PLKI) in its $1.8 billion sale to Restaurant Brands International (NYSE: QSR)

Roark Capital in its $730 million sale of Atkins Nutritionals to Conyers Park Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company

Carter’s (NYSE: CRI) in its $140 million acquisition of Skip Hop, a portfolio company of Fireman Capital Partners, and the acquisitions of its Mexican licensees, Industrias Bunny Baby and Operación Eficaz

The management team of Oakbridge Insurance Agency in its sale to Audax Private Equity

Thomas H. Lee Partners in its sale of Prime Risk Partners

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Roblin Insurance

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Old National Insurance

Prime Risk Partners in its acquisition of Cook Maran

Technology, Media and Telecommunications

NCR Voyix (NYSE: VYX) in its pending $2.45 billion sale of its digital banking business to Vertias Capital

Dude Perfect in its strategic partnership with Highmount Capital and HL Investments

Carmike Cinemas (NASDAQ: CKEC) in its $1.1 billion cash-stock sale to AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC), and in its acquisition of Sundance Cinemas

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $640 million of Kount from CVC Capital

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $1.825 billion acquisition of Appriss Insights from Clearlake Capital

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its acquisition of HIRETech

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) in its $63 million acquisition of ID Watchdog (TSX: IDW)

Under Armour (NYSE: UAA) in its $475 million purchase of MyFitnessPal

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its $675 million acquisition of Aderant Holdings from Madison Dearborn

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of MGA Systems from Polaris Partners

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of Avitru from Alpine Investors

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of American LegalNet

Northlane Capital in its sale of SMG to Onex

Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) in its acquisition of OnCenter Software from Accel-KKR

Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC in stadium development and sponsorship matters.