Rodin M. Hai-Jew, P.C.

Partner Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity

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Rodin M. Hai-Jew, P.C.

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.

Rodin has acted as a guest lecturer at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and PLI.

HGGC in numerous transactions, including:

  • its sale of shares in Denodo in a $336 million investment by TPG
  • AutoAlert in its acquisition by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock
  • its 2023 preferred equity investment in PCF Insurance Services alongside Carlyle Global Credit at a valuation of $4.7 billion
  • Aventri in its combination with MeetingPlay
  • the management and partner-led buyout of PCF Insurance Services from HGGC at a valuation of $2.2 billion
  • the sale of Dealer-FX to Snap-On Incorporated (NYSE: SNA)
  • 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 and the subsequent investment in HelpSystems by TA and Charlesbank
  • its $555 million take-private acquisition of RPX (NASDAQ: RPXC)
  • its $446 million take private acquisition of Nutraceutical (NASDAQ: NUTR)
  • its acquisition of FPX and subsequent sale of FPX to TA Associates
  • its investment in Denodo

Vista Equity Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • its full exit from Aptean in connection with a strategic growth investment from TA and Insight Partners
  • its strategic investment in BetterCloud
  • its strategic investment in Critical Start
  • its strategic investment in Salesloft 
  • its strategic growth investment in StarRez
  • its $350 million investment in Assent Compliance
  • its strategic investment in Drift. Named Enterprise Software Deal of the Year for 2022 by Mergers & Acquisitions.
  • its investment in SmartBear
  • its majority investment in Pipedrive
  • its investment in Menlo Security
  • Aptean in its strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • its majority investment in Acquia and Acquia’s subsequent acquisition of Widen
  • 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

Luminate Capital Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • its strategic growth investment in Suralink
  • its strategic growth investment in Ease
  • its sale of LiquidFrameworks to ServiceMax
  • its strategic investment in Compliance & Risks
  • its sale of AutoQuotes to TA Associates
  • its sale of a majority-control interest of StarCompliance to Marlin Equity Partners
  • its sale of Comply365 to Liberty Hall Capital Partners
  • its sale of a majority interest of Oversight to TCV
  • Conexiom in a strategic growth investment from ICONIQ Capital and subsequent investment from Warburg Pincus
  • its strategic investment in Quantivate
  • its strategic investment in Thought Industries
  • its strategic investment in LiquidFrameworks
  • its strategic investment in Fintech

FFL Partners in numerous transactions, including:

  • its growth investment in Johnson County Clin-Trials
  • ALKU in its majority investment from New Mountain Capital
  • its strategic investment in Abacus Group
  • its investment in Optomi
  • its sale of Bacharach to MSA Safety Incorporated (NYSE: MSA)
  • its investment in ALKU
  • its acquisition of Crisis Prevention Institute
  • its acquisition of Bacharach and the subsequent acquisition of Neutronics 

Integrity Marketing Group in numerous transactions, including:

  • its acquisition of Heartland Financial Group
  • its acquisition of Gladstone Wealth Partners
  • its acquisition of Applied General Agency
  • its acquisition of Annexus
  • its acquisition of PHP Agency
  • its acquisition of HGI
  • its acquisition of Ritter Insurance Marketing
  • its acquisition of Ash Brokerage
  • Silver Lake’s investment in Integrity Marketing Group
  • its acquisition of Deft Research
  • its acquisition of Berwick Insurance Group
  • its acquisition of the Health Insurance Store
  • its acquisition of National Agents Alliance
  • its acquisition Tri-State Financial
  • its acquisition of Equis Financial
  • its acquisition of ThomasArts
  • its acquisition of Emrick Insurance Marketing Group
  • its acquisition of Family First Life

Parthenon Capital in its $900 million acquisition of Kroll Bond Rating Agency

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. and subsequent combination with StorageCraft
  • its sale of Compass Learning to Edgenuity

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 (now REEF Global) and ParkJockey’s and Mubadala’s acquisition of Citizens Parking and Imperial Parking

Katerra in its recapitalization by the SoftBank Vision Fund

Serent Capital in numerous transactions, including:

  • its sale of Real Green Systems to WorkWave
  • in its sale of DocuTech to First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) for $350 million. Named FinTech Real Estate Deal of the Year for 2021 by Mergers & Acquisitions.  

Accel-KKR in numerous transactions, including:

  • the combination of Kimble Applications and Mavenlink
  • its strategic investment in Vendavo
  • its sale of TEAM Software to WorkWave
  • 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

Solera Holdings Inc., 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

Francisco Partners in numerous transactions, including:

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

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

Applied Predictive Technologies in its $600 million sale to MasterCard 

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

Banner Ventures in its Series B Investment in MANSCAPED

Knox Lane in its investment in $225 million growth equity investment in Pattern

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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Recognition

Named a “Top Rising Star” by The Deal, 2021

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