John D. Kauffman

Experience

John has represented investors, entrepreneurs and corporate management in a variety of business and strategic matters. His work has included start-up formation and growth, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, commercial and other private financings, public securities offerings and public company reporting and compliance. One focus of John's practice is representing Alaska Native Corporations from his office in Anchorage in their complex M&A transactions in Alaska and throughout the United States.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS AND TRANSACTIONS
Mergers and Acquisitions for Alaska Native Corporations

• Calista Corporation: Acquisition of Brice, Inc. and its related companies from its family ownership group
• NANA Development Corporation
• Acquisition of Grand Isle Shipyard, Inc., a Louisiana based services company primarily focused on maintenance and repair of more than 700 offshore platforms off the Louisiana Gulf Coast, from Huntsman Gay Global Capital
• Acquisition of Pegasus Aircraft Maintenance, an Anchorage-based provider of maintenance, passenger, ramp and cargo services to the aviation industry, from its founders
• Koniag Development Corporation
• Sale of Washington Management Group and FedSources to Deltek
• Acquisition of Open Systems Technologies, an IT services company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, from its founders
• Arctic Slope Regional Corporation: Acquisition of the business assets of McGraw Custom Construction, Inc. by ASRC Construction Holding Company
• Afognak Native Corporation: Acquisition of Community Power Corporation, a Colorado based developer of small, modular bioenergy gasification systems, from its founders

Additional Representative Mergers and Acquisions

• The Jim Pattison Group: Acquisition of Alaska based fish processing companies and Washington state based juice companies by subsidiaries of The Jim Pattison Group, Canada's third largest privately held company
• ERM Group: Acquisition of Oasis Environmental Inc., an environmental services company headquartered in Anchorage

Equity Investments

• Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI): Acquisition of majority equity interest in Cruz Energy Services LLC, a company providing heavy construction and oilfield services to the oil industry in North Dakota and other Lower 48 markets, and majority equity investment in Cruz Marine LLC, a company providing tug and barge services for resource development projects
• NANA Development Corporation: Equity investment in Evergreen Films, Inc., an independent film production studio headquartered in Anchorage

Joint Ventures

• AuruMar Alaska: Entity formation and governance for partnership of DeBeers and AngloGold Ashanti Limited for acquisition and development of offshore mineral leases near Nome, Alaska
• Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc.: Development of updated joint venture structure for ownership and operation of Goose Bay broadcast facility

Professional Honors & Activities

• Selected by the Alaska Journal of Commerce as one of Alaska's top "40 Under 40", 2013
• Co-Chair, Business Law Section, Alaska Bar Association
• Listed among Rising Stars^SM (Securities and Corporate Finance) by Washington Super Lawyers®, 2009, 2007, 2006

Publications

• Chief author, "Business Law Practice," Chapter XIII, Washington Lawyers' Practice Manual

Education

• Stanford Law School, J.D., 1999
  Member, Moot Court Board
• College of William and Mary, B.A., 1996, summa cum laude
  Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• Alaska
• Washington

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