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Seth King is a member of the firm's business transactions group, working primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, securities, commercial finance and general corporate and business law.

Mergers and Acquisitions Experience

Mr. King has participated in over 50 merger and acquisition transactions for public and private clients totaling over $3.5 billion in value, including stock and asset sales and purchases, mergers, leveraged buyouts and public and private tender offers. He has significant experience in all aspects of merger and acquisition transactions, including purchase agreement drafting and negotiation, due diligence investigations and disclosure schedule preparation, ancillary agreement drafting and transaction closings. He has had primary responsibility for several transactions totaling over $200 million in value.

Mr. King has participated in filing several Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) forms and exemption applications with the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice in connection with antitrust compliance for transactions totaling over $2 billion in value and has overseen the filing of all HSR forms made by the firm since 2003.

Representative M&A Transactions

• SkyWest's acquisition of Atlantic Southeast Airlines from Delta Air Lines for $1.7 billion (including assumption of liabilities)

• Sale of publicly held VitalStream Holdings to Internap Network Services, a publicly held technology services company, for $217 million.

• Kinross Gold Corporation's acquisition of publicly held Crown Resources Corporation for $218 million.

• SBI Holdings' sale to aQuantive for $160 million.

• Franklin Covey's sale of Premier Agendas subsidiary to School Specialty for $165 million.

• Sale of Sizzling Platter to Valor Equity Partners (private equity fund) in a leveraged buyout transaction.

• Access Long Distance's sale to McLeod USA for $237 million.

Other Representative M&A Clients

• Merit Medical Systems

• Nu Skin Enterprises

• Arysta Lifescience

• The Woodside Group

• Nevada Chemicals

• The Salt Lake Stingers

• The Layton Companies

• Neilson Elggren

• Granite Construction Co.

• Sentry Financial

• Lofthouse Foods

• The SCO Group

• Jacobsen Construction Co.

  NEWS & PUBLICATIONS

• "39 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2008 Legal Elite", Press Release, January 15, 2008
• "Parr Waddoups Ranks As Leading Utah Firm 5 Consecutive Years", Press Release, June 27, 2007
• "38 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named As 2007 Legal Elite", Press Release, November 27, 2006
• "Internap spends $217M for VitalStream", The Daily Deal, October 13, 2006
• "28 Parr Waddoups Lawyers Named Legal Elite in 2006", Press Release, January 2006