Rodin M. Hai-Jew

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

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Rodin M. Hai-Jew

Practices

Overview

Rodin M. Hai-Jew is a partner in the Corporate Transactional Group, where he concentrates his practice on complex business transactions, including carve-out transactions, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, leveraged buyouts of public and private companies, debt and equity restructurings, recapitalizations, private equity and venture capital investments, minority equity investments, investment exits (including sales to financial or strategic acquirers or to the public markets), executive compensation and equity incentive arrangements, and related general corporate counseling. 

Rodin has represented public and private companies and private equity/venture capital funds in transactions ranging in size from several million dollars to billions of dollars, both domestically and in cross-border transactions. His practice covers a wide variety of industries, including software, food and consumer products, retail, chemicals, transportation, professional services, marketing, automotive supply, manufacturing, technology and data hosting. Representative clients include public companies, a wide range of private equity funds with hundreds of millions to billions of dollars under management and their subsidiaries or portfolio companies.

HGGC, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its $825 million take-private acquisition of Monotype Imaging Holdings
  • its strategic investment in American Megatrends International
  • the merger of Survey Sampling International and Research Now (now Dynata)
  • its acquisition of HelpSystems
  • its acquisition of RPX (NASDAQ: RPXC)
  • its acquisition of Nutraceutical (NASDAQ: NUTR)
  • its acquisition of FPX
  • its investment in Denodo

SoftBank Vision Fund and its affiliates, in numerous transactions, including:

  • Walmart Inc.’s (NYSE: WMT) approximately $16 billion purchase of a majority of the equity of Flipkart
  • its investment in ParkJockey and ParkJockey’s and Mubadala’s acquisition of Citizens Parking and Imperial Parking

Marlin Equity Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its sale of AdvancedMD to Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN)
  • its acquisition of the Arcserve division of CA, Inc.
  • its sale of Compass Learning to Edgenuity

FFL Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its investment in ALKU
  • its acquisition of Crisis Prevention Institute
  • its acquisition of Bacharach and the subsequent acquisition of Neutronics

Francisco Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its investment in Ericsson’s (NASDAQ: ERIC) iconectiv business
  • its sale of Paymetric to Vantiv (NYSE: VNTV)

Vista Equity Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its acquisition of NAVEX, the subsequent acquisition of The Network and its sale to BC Partners
  • its strategic investment in Vivid Seats and subsequent strategic investment by GTCR

Solera Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SLH), in numerous transactions, including:

  • its joint venture with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe related to the Service Repair Solutions business
  • its acquisition of DMEautomotive
  • its acquisition of the Insurance & Services division of Pittsburgh Glass Works

Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL), in its acquisition of Datalogix

Applied Predictive Technologies, in its $600 million sale to MasterCard

Accel-KKR, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its sale of The Endurance International Group for approximately $1 billion
  • its acquisition of National Electronic Attachment and Medical Electronic Attachment (now Vyne), and subsequent sale to The Jordan Company
  • its acquisition of Infinisource

Luminate Capital Partners, in numerous transactions, including:

  • its strategic investment in Thought Industries
  • its strategic investment in LiquidFrameworks
  • its strategic investment in Fintech

Thomas H. Lee Partners, in its acquisition of Phillips Pet Food & Supplies

Monomoy Capital Partners, in its acquisition and subsequent sale of Holley Performance Products

GTCR, in its sale of Landmark Aviation to The Carlyle Group

Cardno Limited (ASX: CDD), in its acquisition of TEC

TA Associates, in its sale of Bomgar to Thoma Bravo

KRG Capital Partners, in its acquisition of Ansira

Macquarie Global Opportunities Partners, in its sale of Petermann Partners

PILI Fellow, Center for Disability & Elder Law, Chicago, IL, May 2010–August 2010

Summer Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, IL, May 2009–July 2009

Summer Associate, Heller Ehrman LLP, Seattle, WA, May 2008–August 2008

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Memberships & Affiliations

Bar Association of San Francisco

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2010Illinois
  • 2014California

Education

  • Northwestern Pritzker School of LawJ.D.cum laude2010
    John Henry Wigmore Scholar
  • University of WashingtonB.S., Economics; B.A., Business Administration2006

    College honors

    Business degree departmental honors

    Admitted via the Early Entrance Program