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 John A. Bates
John is a Principal at Arlington. He joined the firm in 2000, and focuses primarily and has led or co-led investments in each of the education, healthcare, information services, interactive marketing, and media sectors. During his sixteen year career in private equity and investment banking, John has completed over $100 billion of transactions in a variety of industries.
Before joining Arlington, John was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers. As a founding member of Lehman Brothers' Communications Mergers and Acquisitions Group, John focused on the communications, business services, media, and technology industries, and completed transactions ranging in size from $30 million to $56 billion. During John's seven years at Lehman Brothers, he executed several of the industry's most notable transactions, including multi-billion dollar transactions for each of the following clients: ADT Limited (Tyco), Ameritech (Tele Danmark), Digital Equipment (Compaq), EXCEL Communications (Telco), MediaOne Group (Microsoft/Telewest), Olivetti (Mannesmann/CCI), Pennzoil (Chevron), Teleglobe (BCE), and U S WEST (Qwest). During this time period, John also executed numerous other merger and acquisition transactions, strategic advisory and hostile defense assignments, and corporate financings, including initial public offerings, common stock and preferred stock financings, and debt financings. John began his business career as an analyst at Price Waterhouse.
John holds an M.B.A. degree in finance and is a Director's List recipient from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a graduate of Princeton University with a B.A. in Political Economics. John also previously was All-American Consideration for U.S. Swimming.
John currently serves on the Board of Directors of Advanced Health Media, Ad Venture Interactive (formerly PlattForm Holdings), BrightStar Education Group, Sports Information Group (Daily Racing Form), Virgo Holdings, and Capital Partners For Education.
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