Robert Goedert

Robert Goedert concentrates his practice in capital markets transactions and public company mergers and acquisitions. Robert has extensive experience in all types of public and private securities transactions, including initial public offerings, block trades, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, tender offers and exchange offers. Robert also regularly advises both public companies as well as private equity funds on complex corporate transactions involving public companies, including going-private transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. In addition, Robert regularly advises publicly traded corporations and their executive officers and directors on corporate governance, SEC compliance and disclosure matters, stock exchange listing requirements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, Section 16 reporting, stockholder activism and proposals, executive compensation and fiduciary duties of directors and officers. · Kirkland & Ellis LLP

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Focuses on capital markets transactions, public company mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, complex corporate transactions, and corporate governance and SEC compliance.

Practice areas

Capital MarketsMergers and AcquisitionsSecuritiesCorporate GovernanceSEC ComplianceExecutive Compensation

Office

United States

Kirkland & Ellis LLP · Robert Goedert concentrates his practice in capital markets transactions and public company mergers and acquisitions. Robert has extensive experience in all types of public and private securities transactions, including initial public offerings, block trades, high yield and investment grade debt offerings, tender offers and exchange offers. Robert also regularly advises both public companies as well as private equity funds on complex corporate transactions involving public companies, including going-private transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. In addition, Robert regularly advises publicly traded corporations and their executive officers and directors on corporate governance, SEC compliance and disclosure matters, stock exchange listing requirements, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, Section 16 reporting, stockholder activism and proposals, executive compensation and fiduciary duties of directors and officers.

United States

Expertise

Initial public offeringsBlock tradesHigh yield debt offeringsInvestment grade debt offeringsTender offersExchange offersGoing-private transactionsMergers and acquisitionsDivestituresCorporate governanceSEC compliance and disclosureStock exchange listing requirementsSarbanes-Oxley ActDodd-Frank ActSection 16 reportingStockholder activism and proposalsExecutive compensationFiduciary duties of directors and officers

Education

Harvard Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2007
University of Notre Dame, B.A., Economics, summa cum laude, 2004