Overview
John P. Tamisiea represents private and public companies, family-owned businesses and private equity funds in transactional matters. John concentrates his practice in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and alliances, securities offerings, venture capital investing and family office and general corporate counseling. John has also served as outside general counsel and an advisor to boards of directors for a number of clients. His clients include privately-held, publicly-traded and family-owned companies, private equity funds and investments banks.
John has extensive experience in the healthcare software and IT, technology, general industrial and agricultural and food sectors, as well as a variety of service-based businesses. A responsive, solution-focused transactional lawyer, John seeks to solve problems rather than merely identify them. His experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting merger and acquisition transactions and understanding the client’s business strategy and goals enables him to more effectively serve his clients.
Results
- Represented Option Care Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPCH), the nation’s largest independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services, in its entry into a definitive merger agreement to combine with Amedisys, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMED), a leading provider of home health, hospice and high-acuity care.
- Represented Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDRX) (now Veradigm) in the sale of its CarePort Health business to WellSky Corp., a global health and community care technology company, for $1.35 billion.
- Represented Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, a global leader in Healthcare IT creating healthier lives by generating and providing insights that change the delivery of care, in its acquisition of Babel Health, Inc., a health data management company offering risk adjustment and encounter submission software tools on a single, cloud-based platform.
- Represented Young Innovations Inc., a leading global manufacturer and distributor of consumable dental supplies and equipment, in its sale to Linden Capital Partners, for $314 million.
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Represented Chicago Public Media/WBEZ, one of the largest and most respected public media organizations in the country, in its acquisition of the Chicago Sun-Times, the second largest newspaper circulation in Chicago.
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Represented Tony’s Fresh Market, a leading Chicago-based grocery retailer, in its sale to Apollo Funds, a collection of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, a high-growth, global alternative asset manager.
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Represented United States Sugar Corporation in its acquisition from Louis Dreyfus Company of the business and assets of Imperial Sugar Company, a port refiner with operations in Georgia and Kentucky.
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Represented Motorola Solutions, a global leader in mission-critical communications and analytics, in its acquisition of Openpath Security Inc., a cloud-based mobile access control provider.
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Represented Motorola Solutions, a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, in its acquisition of Futurecom Systems Group ULC. Futurecom designs and manufactures in-vehicle, fixed and portable radio frequency (RF) repeaters and extenders exclusively for Motorola Solutions.
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Represented Best Buy Co., Inc. in its acquisition of Current Health, a leading care-at-home technology platform that brings together patient monitoring , telehealth, and patient engagement into a single solution for healthcare organizations.
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Represented Munich Re, a leading global provider of reinsurance, primary insurance and insurance-related risk solutions, in its acquisition of MedVirginia, Inc., d/b/a Clareto, one of the leading medical record retrieval companies for the life insurance industry.
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Represented Dixon Midland, a Chicago-based private equity firm, in its sale of GoodVets, a next generation animal health platform, to SkyKnight Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.
Recognitions
- The Legal 500 US, 2019-2022
- IFLR1000, M&A, 2022-2023
Community
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Regina Dominican High School Board 2015 – 2022, Chairman of the Board 2021-2022
Credentials
Education
University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD
University of Iowa, BBA in Accounting, with highest distinction
Admissions
Illinois