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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS EXPERIENCE
Seth King is a member of the firm's business transactions group, working primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, commercial finance and general corporate and business law.
Mr. King has participated in over 70 merger and acquisition transactions for public and private clients totaling over $6 billion in value, including stock and asset sales and purchases, mergers, leveraged buyouts and public and private tender offers. He has significant experience in all aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, including purchase agreement drafting and negotiation, due diligence investigations and disclosure schedule preparation, ancillary agreement drafting and transaction closings. He has had primary responsibility for several transactions totaling nearly $400 million in value.
Mr. King has participated in filing several Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) forms and exemption applications with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in connection with antitrust compliance for transactions totaling over $4 billion in value and has overseen the filing of all HSR forms made by the firm since 2003.
Representative M&A Transactions
- Merit Medical Systems, Inc. acquisition of BioSphere Medical, Inc. for approximately $96 million
- Barrick Gold Corporation’s acquisition from Rio Tinto of its 40% joint venture interest in the Cortez mining venture for approximately $1.7 billion.
- SkyWest’s acquisition of Atlantic Southeast Airlines from Delta Air Lines for approximately $1.7 billion (including assumption of liabilities).
- Sale of publicly held VitalStream Holdings to Internap Network Services, a publicly held technology services company, for $217 million.
- Kinross Gold Corporation’s acquisition of publicly held Crown Resources Corporation for $218 million.
- SBI Holdings’ sale to aQuantive for $160 million.
- Nevada Chemicals’ sale, through a public tender offer and merger, to Oaktree Capital Management for approximately $95 million.
- Franklin Covey’s sale of Premier Agendas subsidiary to School Specialty for $165 million.
- Arkona, Inc.’s sale, through a public tender offer and merger, to Dealertrack Holdings for approximately $62 million.
- Acquisition by major global mining company of a power plant in the Caribbean for $53 million.
- Sale of Sizzling Platter to Valor Equity Partners (private equity fund) in a leveraged buyout transaction.
- Access Long Distance’s sale to McLeod USA for $237 million.
Other Representative M&A Clients
- Merit Medical Systems
- Ralcorp Holdings
- Nu Skin Enterprises
- Arysta Lifescience
- CHG Healthcare
- The Woodside Group
- Nevada Chemicals
- Dynamic Confections
- The Salt Lake Stingers
- The Layton Companies
- Batteries and Bands
- Neilson Elggren
- Granite Construction Co.
- Sentry Financial
- Lofthouse Foods
- The SCO Group
- Jacobsen Construction Co.
