Professional Profile
Robert M. Hayward is a partner in the corporate transactional group. His practice primarily involves counseling publicly-traded corporations, underwriters and leveraged buyout and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in all aspects of transactional, securities law and general corporate matters. Mr. Hayward has extensive experience representing both issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, buyers and sellers in public and private M&A and leverage buyout transactions and issuers and investors in venture capital and other private financing transactions.
In addition, Mr. Hayward regularly advises publicly-traded corporations, including Kellogg Company, Whirlpool Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Joy Global Inc., Molson Coors Brewing Company, Biomet, Inc., Walgreen Co., NightHawk Radiology Services, Tuesday Morning Corporation, and their executive officers and directors on corporate governance, SEC compliance and disclosure matters, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and fiduciary duties of directors and officers.
Mr. Hayward co-authored the following articles: The New Compensation Discussion and Analysis which appeared in Insights: The Corporate & Securities Law Advisor; What Every Compensation Committee Member Should Know About Corporate Governance Reforms which appeared in Corporate Counsel; and What Every Private Equity Professional Must Know About Sarbanes-Oxley Reforms which appeared in The Venture Capital Review. Mr. Hayward was a co-author for the treatise "A Practical Guide to SEC Proxy and Compensation Rules," published by Aspen in 2007. Mr. Hayward was a panelist at the June 2007 symposium entitled "Fundamentals of Capital Markets Transactions" and a panelist at the November 2004 symposium entitled "Looking Around the Corner: What's Next in Transaction Trends, Governance and Compliance," co-sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Mr. Hayward has been quoted or featured in Board Member Magazine, The Deal, The Daily Deal, The American Lawyer, IR Magazine and others.
Mr. Hayward is listed in Best Lawyers in America (Securities).Memberships & Affiliations
TheCorporateCounsel, Advisory Board Member
Northwestern Gridiron Network, Board Member
Music Institute of Chicago, Trustee
Northwestern University Leadership Circle, Regional Council Member
Northwestern University Alumni Association (various positions)
Chicago Bar Foundation's Young Professionals Board, Board Member
The Economic Club of Chicago
The Lawyers Club of Chicago
American Bar Association
Chicago Bar Association
State Bar Association of ArizonaPrior Experience
Packaging Corporation of America (NYSE: PKG), General Counsel (interim)
Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P., Phoenix, Arizona (1997-2000)Courts
Supreme Court of Illinois
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Supreme Court of Arizona
United States District Court for the District of Arizona
