Joshua Butler
Joshua Butler
Joshua Butler
Joshua Butler

Biography

Joshua Butler is an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group in the Firm's New York office. Josh represents public and private companies, boards, shareholders, private equity firms and other investors in domestic and cross-border public and private mergers, acquisitions, sales, spin-offs, joint ventures and related financing transactions. Previously working in the Silicon Valley and Melbourne, Australia offices of White & Case, Josh has international transactional experience across a breadth of transactional areas as well as governance, disclosure and compliance matters.

Experience

Shutterstock (NYSE: SSTK) on the negotiation and execution of a merger agreement with Getty Images (NYSE: GETY) providing for the acquisition of Shutterstock by Getty Images

Samsung Electronics in its acquisition of Xealth, a unique healthcare integration platform using diverse digital health tools and care programs to benefit patients and providers.

CVC Capital Partners and Mediaocean on the take-private acquisition of Innovid Corp. (NYSE: CTV), an omnichannel advertising and analytics platform built for television, by MediaOcean.

JTC plc (LON: JTC) in its acquisition of First Republic Trust Company of Delaware LLC.

Air France-KLM, in its consortium investment of $1.2 billion in restructuring aid to Scandinavian airline SAS AB, replacing previous debtor-in-possession Apollo Global Management.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), on its acquisition of Flow Security Ltd, the industry's first cloud data runtime security solution.

Autotalks Ltd. a fabless semiconductor company devoted to vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications for manned and autonomous vehicles, on its sale to Qualcomm Incorporated.

Siemplify, an Israeli cybersecurity and security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) provider, in its sale to Google LLC.

Falcon's Beyond Global, LLC, a leading fully integrated global entertainment development company specializing in intellectual property creation and expansion, in its merger with FAST Acquisition Corp. II (NYSE: FZT).

Presto Automation, Inc., a leading labor automation technology provider in the hospitality industry, in its merger with Ventoux CCM Acquisition Corp (NASDAQ: VTAQ).

Zanite Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: ZNTE, ZNTEU, ZNTEW), a SPAC, in its US$2.4 billion business combination agreement with Embraer S.A., a Brazilian multinational aerospace manufacturer, to acquire EVE UAM, LLC, an Urban Air Mobility business.

B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp. (NASDAQ: BRPM), a SPAC, in its US$1.0 billion business combination with FaZe Clan, Inc., a leading US gaming, lifestyle and digital content platform.

Qatar Investment Authority, sovereign wealth fund of the State of Qatar, on its participation in the US$110 million Series B financing of T-Knife Therapeutics, a T-cell receptor company building a pipeline of innovative therapeutics for solid tumor patients.

Biosight Ltd., a privately held pharmaceutical development company developing innovative therapeutics for hematological malignancies and disorders, in its reverse merger transaction with Advaxis, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADXS).

Harvest Partners, LP in its sale of Neighborly, a holding company of 21 service brands focused on repairing, maintaining and enhancing consumers' homes and businesses via various online platforms, to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P.

SoftBank and Eldridge in their funding of US$235 million in AnyVision, one of the largest-ever funding rounds in facial recognition software.

Fotowatio Renewable Ventures in the sell-down of part of its 640MWdc portfolio of Australian solar farms.

AMP Power Australia on the acquisition of 120MW Hillston Solar Farm Project from Overland Sun Farming.

New York
California
Victoria
High Court of Australia
Bachelor of Law (Honours)
Deakin University
Bachelor of Commerce
Deakin University
English

Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Australia, M&A Finalist, 2022 

Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Australia, M&A Finalist, 2020

Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Australia, M&A Finalist 2019

Law Institute of Victoria Rising Star 2019, M&A

"Strong Legal and Risk Protocols to Take Projects from Pilot to Production" International Blockchain TechForum, Swinburne University, September 2019

"Technology and Innovation: The Future of the Legal Profession" Deakin University, October 2019

Smart Legal Contracts: Computable Law in Theory and Practice | Lawyer Meets Developer: How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Builds Smarter Legal Contracts, Oxford University Press, April 2022

Living in Digital Harmony: Immutable Data Systems and the Right to be Forgotten, Law Institute Journal, October 2019

Blockchain for Government: are we there yet?, The Mandarin, September 2018

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