Clifford Chance advises Sedgwick on acquisition of JND Legal Administration

December 15, 2021

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Clifford Chance advises Sedgwick on acquisition of JND Legal Administration

Leading international law firm Clifford Chance has advised Sedgwick on its acquisition of JND Legal Administration, a legal management and administration services provider serving plaintiff and defendant law firms, corporations and government entities.

Sedgwick is a global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions with nearly 30,000 colleagues located across 65 countries. Sedgwick's majority shareholder is investment firm The Carlyle Group. Stone Point Capital LLC, La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Onex Corporation and other management investors are minority shareholders.

JND is the leading US provider of full-service class action administration, mass tort and lien resolution, eDiscovery, government redress and legal noticing services. Headquartered in Seattle, JND has over 250 employees and additional offices in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Washington, DC.

Partners Gary Boss and Neil Barlow led the deal, supported by law clerk Lily Phan. The wider team advising across multiple practice areas included:

M&A: associate Dean Agnos (New York)
Tax: partner Philip Wagman and associate Sean Smestad (New York)
Benefits & Employment: partner Howard Adler and associate David Walsh (New York)
IP: counsel Daryl Fairbairn (New York)
Cyber/Data Privacy: associate Benjamin Berringer (New York)
Antitrust: partner Sharis Pozen, counsel Tarica Chambliss and associate Lauren Sillman (Washington, DC)

Clifford Chance has advised Sedgwick on numerous M&A matters including its acquisitions of Temporary Accommodations, Stericycle's Expert Solutions' service line and York Risk Services Group, and the sale of its group health peer review and independent medical examination business to ExamWorks, LLC.