John W. Sheridan

Public M&A

• Turn/River Capital in its $4.4 billion acquisition of SolarWinds Corporation (NYSE: SWI).
• Vista Equity Partners, in its $8.4 billion acquisition of Smartsheet Inc. (NYSE: SMAR).
• Vista Equity Partners, in its $5.6 billion sale of PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PWSC).
• CORE Industrial Partners, in its acquisition of Fathom Digital Manufacturing Corporation (NYSE: FATH).
• Blackstone Inc., in its $2.3 billion acquisition of Rover Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROVR).
• Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (NYSE: SIX) in its $8 billion merger of equals with Cedar Fair, LP (NYSE: FUN).
• Vista Equity Partners in its $8.4 billion acquisition of Avalara, Inc. (NYSE: AVLR).

Private M&A

• K1 Investment Management, and its portfolio company Smarsh Inc., in its acquisition of TeleMessage.
• HGGC, in its strategic investment in True North Advisors.
• CORE Industrial Partners, in its sale of J&K Ingredients to SK Capital.
• Olympus Partners, in its sale of The Foodware Group to CFS Brands.
• TA, in its recapitalization of Advantive and its accompanying growth equity investment.
• Vista Equity Partners, in its growth equity investment in Benchmark Gensuite.
• FFL Partners, in its acquisition of Abacus Group, LLC.
• HGGC, in its investment in Warren Averett Asset Management.
• Accel-KKR, in its sale of TEAM Software to Workwave.
• Vista Equity Partners, in its sale of Social Solutions Group to Apax Funds.
• Software Acquisition Group Inc. II, a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with Otonomo Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: OTMO).
• Vista Equity Partners, in its sale of Numerator to Kantar Group.
• Serent Capital, in its sale of Real Green Systems to WorkWave.
• HGGC, in its sale of Dealer-FX to Snap-on Inc. (NYSE: SNA) for $200 million.
• K1 Investment Management, and its portfolio company Smarsh Inc., in its acquisition of Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc.
• Serent Capital, in its sale of Docutech, Inc. to First American Financial (NYSE: FAF) for $350 million.
• Vista Equity Partners, in connection with its partial sale and recapitalization of Aptean, Inc.
• Software Acquisition Group Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, in its merger with CuriosityStream Inc. (NASDAQ: CURI).
• Vista Equity Partners and its portfolio company iCIMS, Inc., in its acquisition of Altru Labs Inc.
• Integrity Marketing Group, a portfolio company of Harvest Partners and HGGC, in multiple transactions.

Capital Markets

• Vista Equity Partners, and its portfolio company Integral Ad Science (NASDAQ: IAS) in its initial public offering.
• Neiman Marcus, in its $1.1 billion private offering of 7.125% senior secured notes due 2026.
• Arctos NorthStar Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: ANAC), a special purpose acquisition company, in its $275 million initial public offering.
• Neiman Marcus Group, and affiliates in their pre-arranged Chapter 11 cases.
• Paya Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYA), in its primary and secondary offerings of common stock.