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Robert Cardone
Biography
Bobby is the Managing Partner of Dallas and advises clients on M&A transactions.
Bobby advises US and international public and private companies and private equity firms on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters including corporate governance, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, tender offers and venture capital.
Bobby focuses on a broad range of industries including technology, manufacturing, financial services, consumer products and energy and has led transactions with an aggregate value in excess of USD200 billion.
His clients include companies such as Texas Instruments, SAP SE, CSW Industrials, Sunoco LP and LPL Financial and private equity firms such as J.F. Lehman and New Mountain Capital.
Bobby serves as the Chair of the M&A Section of the Dallas Bar Association and on the DFW Board of Directors of the Texas General Counsel Forum, and has been recognized by Chambers USA and other industry publications as a leading M&A practitioner.
Practice areas
- Corporate and M&A
- M and A JVs and corporate reorganizations
- Private client
- Private equity
- Tech transactions
- Emerging growth
- Funds and asset management
Sectors
- Private capital
- Energy
- Technology
- Industrials and manufacturing
- Infrastructure and transport
- Private equity
- Semiconductors
Selected experience
- Texas Instruments in its pending USD7.5 billion acquisition of Silicon Labs, its acquisition of the Lehi, Utah semiconductor manufacturing facility from Micron Technology and the sale of its Greenock, Scotland semiconductor manufacturing facility to Diodes Incorporated.
- SAP in its acquisition of Qualtrics International for USD8 billion, in Qualtrics’ initial public offering raising USD1.55 billion and concurrent USD670 million private placements, and in its subsequent USD12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics to Silver Lake; and Qualtrics in its acquisition of Clarabridge for USD1.125 billion.
- J.F. Lehman & Co. in its acquisitions of Heritage-Crystal Clean, BEI Systems, Northstar Group Services, Lone Star Disposal and various others.
- Hitachi, Ltd. in its acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc. for an enterprise value of USD9.5 billion.
- NVIDIA in its acquisition of Mellanox for USD6.9 billion.
- Frontier Waste Solutions in its sale to Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC and Concentric Equity Partners II, L.P.
- LPL Financial Holdings Inc. in its USD2.7 billion acquisition of Commonwealth Financial Network.
- Aegion Corporation in its USD1.1 billion acquisition by New Mountain Capital.
- Signature Aviation in the sale of its Ontic business to CVC Capital for USD1.365 billion.
- CSW Industrials in its USD360 million acquisition of T.A. Industries.
Education
- B.A., History, Yale University, 2006 J.D. ( with honors ), SMU Dedman School of Law, 2009
Admissions
- Texas, 2009