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    John W. Karol

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    New York

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    karolj@sullcrom.com

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    John W. Karol is an associate in Sullivan & Cromwell’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups within the Firm’s General Practice Group. He advises clients on a range of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, including M&A transactions, joint ventures, capital raises, spin-offs, public and private offerings of equity and debt securities and other capital markets transactions. He also regularly advises public and private clients on corporate governance, disclosure and general corporate matters.

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    Experience

    Experience

    • Biohaven Ltd. in its spin-off from Biohaven Pharmaceuticals in connection with Biohaven Pharmaceuticals’ $11.7 billion acquisition by Pfizer
    • Booking Holdings in its $1.2 billion acquisition of Getaroom from Court Square Capital Partners and its investment in and strategic partnership with Yanolja
    • Recruit Holdings, 51job’s largest shareholder in connection with the $4.3 billion LBO of 51job by a buyout group that included 51job’s CEO Rick Yan, Recruit, DCP Capital Partners and Ocean Link Partners
    • Symbotic Inc. in its $5.5 billion merger with SVF Investment Corp. 3 , a SPAC sponsored by an affiliate of Softbank Investment Advisers, that resulted in Symbotic becoming a public company, its inaugural capital markets offering and other corporate governance and disclosure matters
    • Tillman Global Holdings in connection with Tillman FiberCo’s strategic partnership with Northleaf Capital Partners, under which funds managed by Northleaf have made an initial investment of $200 million, and in its partnership with Carlyle, in which funds managed by Carlyle’s Global Infrastructure platform have committed up to $1 billion to accelerate Tillman Global’s investments in Tillman Infrastructure
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    News

    News

    • S&C Advises Symbotic in Acquisition of Walmart’s Advanced Systems and Robotics Business

      January 23, 2025
    • S&C Advises FGS Global in Acquisition by KKR Valued at $1.7 Billion

      August 8, 2024
    • S&C Advises Symbotic in Formation of AI-Focused Warehouse Joint Venture with SoftBank

      July 27, 2023
    • S&C Advises FGS in Growth Investment from KKR

      April 13, 2023
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    Credentials

    Credentials

    Education

    • Duke University School of Law, J.D., 2018
    • University of Notre Dame, B.A., 2012

    Bar Admissions

    • New York
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    • General Practice
    • Capital Markets
    • Mergers & Acquisitions
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