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    Minjae (John) Jo

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    John Jo is a partner in the Firm’s Tax Group. He advises both U.S. and non-U.S. clients on a broad range of planning and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, internal and external restructurings, securities offerings and cross-border financings. His clients include a wide-range of sponsor, financial institution and corporate clients in consumer, financial, healthcare, oil and gas, infrastructure, renewable energy and other sectors. He has also represented clients in IRS audits and the United States Tax Court.

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    Experience

    • Ares Management and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in their acquisition of a majority interest in TricorBraun
    • Bakkt in its $48.12 million SEC-registered offering of common stock and pre-funded warrants
    • Baxter International in the $3.8 billion acquisition of its Kidney Care Segment, Vantive, by Carlyle
    • BHP Group in the unification of its dual-listed company structure, and in the divestiture of its oil and gas business to Woodside Petroleum Ltd. for approximately A$20 billion in share consideration
    • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals in its $11.6 billion acquisition by Pfizer; acquisition of Channel Biosciences, a subsidiary of Knopp Biosciences, and its Kv7 channel targeting platform
    • Broadcom on the establishment of the AI XPV Platform, designed to enable more than 20 GW of AI compute capacity, and its initial $35 billion capital commitment led by Apollo in partnership with Blackstone
    • Canadian Pacific Railway in its $31 billion acquisition of Kansas City Southern, creating the first rail network connecting the U.S., Mexico and Canada; sale of Panama Canal Railway Company to APM Terminals Panama Rail LP
    • Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, in acquiring an interest in the ACES Delta, LLC joint venture, which is developing a green hydrogen project in Utah financed by a Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee
    • Distributed Technologies Research in its acquisition by Bakkt
    • Enbridge in its acquisitions of The East Ohio Gas Company, Questar Gas Company and its related Wexpro companies and Public Service Company of North Carolina from Dominion Energy for $14 billion

    • Enhanced in its $1.2 billion merger with A Paradise Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company
    • Flagstar Financial in its restructuring to eliminate its holding company through its merger with its bank subsidiary, Flagstar Bank
    • Great-West Lifeco in the sale of its subsidiary Putnam Investments to Franklin Templeton; in connection with its subsidiary Empower Retirement’s $1 billion acquisition of Personal Capital
    • Haleon Group in its demerger from the GSK Group, making Haleon the world’s biggest stand-alone consumer health company
    • HelloFresh in its $277 million acquisition of Factor
    • L3Harris (formerly Harris Corporation) in the $35 billion merger of equals between Harris Corporation and L3 Technologies; $1.05 billion sale of its Military Training business to CAE
    • Liberty Strategic Capital in its acquisition of an equity stake in Grupo Financiero Banamex from Citigroup
    • Mitratech, an OTPP portfolio company, in over $1.24 billion of first lien, second lien and preferred equity transactions
    • Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) and SeaCube Container Leasing in connection with the sale of an equity stake in SeaCube to Wren House
    • SpotHero in its pending acquisition by Uber Technologies
    • Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) in its $60 billion 50/50 merger with Peugeot S.A.; its sale of its global cast iron automotive components business, which is operated through its subsidiary Teksid S.p.A., to Tupy S.A.
    • SVB Financial Group as Chapter 11 debtor’s counsel
    • The U.S. Department of Energy, through its Loan Programs Office, on a:
      • $17.5 billion conditional loan commitment to finance the procurement of long-lead time items required to construct and deploy 10 Westinghouse AP1000® nuclear reactor units across five sites in the United States
      • $584.5 million loan guarantee to subsidiaries of Convergent Energy and Power to finance the construction of a solar photovoltaic system with an integrated battery energy storage system (BESS) and three stand-alone BESS projects across Puerto Rico
      • $861.3 million loan guarantee to a subsidiary of the AES Corporation to finance the construction of two solar photovoltaic farms equipped with battery storage and two standalone BESS in Puerto Rico
    • TricorBraun, a portfolio company of Ares and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, in various acquisitions including its acquisition of Veritiv Containers
    • Confidential corporate clients in relation to tax planning and other advice (including cross-border planning)

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    Credentials

    Education

    • Yale Law School, J.D., 2017
    • Yale University, M.B.A., 2017
    • The University of Chicago, A.B., 2013

    Bar Admissions

    • New York

    Languages

    • Korean

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