SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* MEHRA SANJEEV K (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO. 200 WEST STREET (Street) NEW YORK NY 10282 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol KAR Auction Services, Inc. [ KAR ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 08/13/2013
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price
Common Stock	08/13/2013		S		4,371,975(2)(4)	D	$24.25(2)	10,614,057	I	See footnotes(1)(2)(3)(4)(5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

1. The Reporting Person is a managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. ("Goldman Sachs"). Goldman Sachs is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. ("GS Group"). The Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein, if any.

2. In connection with the secondary offering (the "Secondary Offering") of common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), of KAR Auction Services, Inc. (the "Company") by a selling stockholder pursuant to an underwriting agreement (the "Underwriting Agreement") and final prospectus supplement, each dated August 7, 2013, KAR Holdings II, LLC ("KAR LLC"), as selling stockholder, sold 15,000,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company at $24.25 per share, which represents the $25.00 Secondary Offering price per share of Common Stock, less the underwriting discount of $0.75 per share of Common Stock. The Secondary Offering closed on August 13, 2013.

3. The common interests of KAR LLC are held by a private investor group, which includes certain limited partnerships (the "Limited Partnerships"). Goldman Sachs is a wholly-owned subsidiary of GS Group. Goldman Sachs is the investment manager of the Limited Partnerships. Affiliates of Goldman Sachs and GS Group are the general partner, managing limited partner or managing partner of the Limited Partnerships.

4. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement and in connection with the Secondary Offering, the underwriters exercised their option (the "Over-Allotment Option") to purchase additional shares of Common Stock from the selling stockholder. Goldman Sachs is one of several underwriters under the Underwriting Agreement. The Over-Allotment Option closed simultaneously with the Secondary Offering on August 13, 2013. KAR LLC sold an additional 2,250,000 shares of Common Stock pursuant to the underwriters' exercise of the Over-Allotment Option.

5. As of August 13, 2013, as a result of the Secondary Offering and the exercise of the Over-Allotment Option, GS Group and Goldman Sachs may be deemed to beneficially own indirectly, in the aggregate, 10,614,057 shares of Common Stock of the Company by reason of the indirect beneficial ownership of such shares by the Limited Partnerships. The Limited Partnerships may be deemed to indirectly beneficially own 10,614,057 shares of Common Stock by reason of the direct beneficial ownership of such shares by KAR LLC. Each of Goldman Sachs and GS Group disclaims beneficial ownership of the securities reported herein except to the extent of its pecuniary interest therein.

Remarks:

	/s/ Yvette Kosic, Attorney-in-fact	08/15/2013
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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