John C. Godfrey

• ADT Inc. in its $450 million investment from Google in connection with the companies’ establishment of a long-term commercial partnership.
• Air Methods Corporation in its $2.5 billion sale to affiliates of American Securities LLC.
• Apollo Global Management and its portfolio companies in various matters, including:
  • its $8.1 billion take-private acquisition of Univar Solutions;
  • Intrado Corporation, a portfolio company of Apollo, in the $2.4 billion sale of Intrado’s safety business to Stonepeak;
  • a $1.2 billion equity investment by State Farm in ADT, a portfolio company of Apollo;
  • its $338 million take-private acquisition of The New Home Company;
  • Shutterfly, a portfolio company of Apollo, in its $225 million acquisition of Spoonflower; and
  • its $2.2 billion take-private acquisition of Diamond Resorts International.
• ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its $5.2 billion sale to Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited.
• Chesapeake Lodging Trust in its $2.7 billion sale to Park Hotels & Resorts Inc.
• Crescent Communities in its sale to Sumitomo Forestry America, Inc.
• Encana Corporation (now known as Ovintiv) in its $7.7 billion acquisition of Newfield Exploration Company.
• Hemisphere Media Group in its take-private sale to a subsidiary of Gato Investments, a portfolio investment of Searchlight CapitalPartners, including the company’s sale of Pantaya to TelevisaUnivision.
• Mortgage Assets Management, LLC and its affiliate in connection with the acquisition of Ditech’s reverse mortgage business, ReverseMortgage Solutions, Inc.
• Mosaic Acquisition Corp. (SPAC) in its combination with Vivint Smart Home, Inc. to form a publicly listed company with an enterprise value of approximately $4.2 billion.
• North Mountain Merger Corp. (SPAC) in its proposed combination with Corcentric to form a publicly traded company with a pro-forma enterprise value of $1.2 billion.
• Oakwood Homes in its sale to Clayton Properties Group, a division of Clayton Homes.
• Ply Gem Holdings in its $2.4 billion sale to affiliates of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice.
• Qualcomm Incorporated in its successful defense against a $142 billion hostile takeover offer from Broadcom.
• Reservoir Holdings, Inc. in its $788 million combination with Roth CH Acquisition II Co. (SPAC).
• Searchlight Capital Partners in its $1 billion acquisition, in partnership with fintech company Rêv Worldwide, Inc., of Netspend’sconsumer business from Global Payments.
• South Mountain Merger Corp. (SPAC) in its $1.3 billion combination with Billtrust.
• Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. in its $1.25 billion sale of its Global Auto Care business to Energizer Holdings, Inc.
• Trine Acquisition Corp. (SPAC) in its combination with Desktop Metal to form a publicly listed company with an estimated post-transaction equity value of up to $2.5 billion.
• Virtu Financial in its $1.4 billion acquisition of KCG Holdings and its $400 million sale of its fixed income trading venue BondPoint to Intercontinental Exchange.

The above matters were handled prior to joining Sidley.