Bobby focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters for public and private companies and private equity firms.
Expertise
Industries
Experience
Representative matters
SAP in its acquisition of Qualtrics International for $8 billion, in Qualtrics’ initial public offering raising $1.55 billion and concurrent $670 million private placements, and in its subsequent $12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics to Silver Lake; and Qualtrics in its acquisition of Clarabridge for $1.125 billion
Texas Instruments in 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
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 $9.5 billion
NVIDIA in its acquisition of Mellanox for $6.9 billion
Frontier Waste Solutions in its sale to Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC and Concentric Equity Partners II, L.P.
Aegion Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition by New Mountain Capital
Signature Aviation in the sale of its Ontic business to CVC Capital for $1.365 billion
CSW Industrials in its $360 million acquisition of T.A. Industries
Capital Southwest in its tax-free spin-off of CSW Industrials
Teradyne, Inc. in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Energid
Patrón Spirits International in its sale to Bacardi with a $5.1 billion enterprise value
Reynolds American in its $49 billion acquisition by British American Tobacco
Reynolds American in its $5 billion sale to JT Group of the international rights to the Natural American Spirit brand name
Reynolds American in its $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard and related $7.1 billion asset divestiture to an Imperial Tobacco affiliate
Tokyo Electron in its attempted $29 billion merger-of-equals with Applied Materials
Bridgestone Americas in its proposed $947 million acquisition of Pep Boys
Ajinomoto in its $800 million acquisition of Windsor Quality Foods
Koch Industries and its affiliates in various acquisitions and divestitures, including the sale by Flint Hills Resources of its chemical intermediaries business to INEOS Enterprises and Georgia-Pacific’s sale of its European nonwovens business to Glatfelter
Oncor Electric Delivery Company in connection with Sempra Energy’s $18.8 billion enterprise value acquisition of Energy Future Holdings Corp., Oncor’s majority owner
Published Work
- Michael Dorf, Cody Wright, Robert J. Cardone, 2022, “USA Chapter for the inaugural issue of Chambers’ Technology M&A Global Practice Guide”, Chambers & Partners USA.
Awards
- “Rising Star”, Texas Super Lawyers, 2016-2019
- Dallas’ Best Lawyers Under 40, D Magazine, 2022
Qualifications
Admissions
Academic
J.D. (with honors), SMU Dedman School of Law, 2009