Overview
Hayden helps his clients achieve their strategic business objectives by using a sensible, business-centric approach gained during his time as in-house counsel with a Fortune 100 company.
Hayden’s practice focuses on a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, minority equity investments, debt and equity offerings, and general corporate matters. He regularly represents private investment funds in connection with minority equity investments and advises buyers and sellers in strategic and private equity-backed acquisitions and dispositions across a variety of industries, including manufacturing and healthcare. His general corporate practice includes advising clients on commercial contracts and corporate governance matters.
Over his career, Hayden has counseled a broad spectrum of clients ranging from founders seeking an exit to key stakeholders of publicly traded companies looking to make a strategic acquisition. This broad client base has provided Hayden with valuable insight into the various perspectives and considerations that often surface during the lifecycle of a transaction.
Education & Admissions
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law (J.D., 2018), cum laude; Articles Editor, SMU Science & Technology Law Review; 2018 Don M. Smart Directed Research Award
Washington State University (B.A., Political Science, 2014), magna cum laude
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Experience
Representative Experience
- Represented, as in-house counsel, an NYSE-listed Fortune 100 company in connection with various acquisitions and dispositions of operating businesses and assets. *
- Represented an NYSE-listed corporation in the $375 million all-equity sale of its highway products division to a private equity buyer. *
- Represented a Texas-based multiple-location home health provider in the $80 million all-equity sale of its business to a private equity buyer. *
- Represented the Related Party Transactions Committee of the Board of Directors of an NYSE-listed REIT in connection with the Board’s review and consideration of the REIT’s contribution of hotel assets to an affiliated private REIT in exchange for operating partnership equity. *
- Represented a private equity-backed portfolio company in its $10 million add-on acquisition of quarry assets. *
- Represented a national HVAC air filter manufacturer in its all-equity acquisition of one of its strategic distributors. *
- Represented a family office, as majority equity holder, in connection with the recapitalization of a portfolio investment, including the sale and issuance to a private credit fund of convertible preferred equity and warrants to acquire common equity. *
- Represented an NYSE-listed financial institution in its approximately $55 million acquisition of a debt facility secured by the world’s largest gas station, convenience store, and travel center. *
*Certain representations occurred prior to joining Dorsey.
News & Resources
News & Press Mentions
- Co-Author, Professional Liability, 6 SMU ANN. TEX. SURV. 259 (2020).
- Co-Author, Professional Liability, 5 SMU ANN. TEX. SURV. 291 (2020).
- Co-Author, Business Succession Planning for Baby Boomers, Dallas Bar Association Headnotes (November 2019).
- Author, Tales from the Crypt: The Securities Law Implications of Initial Coin Offerings and a Framework for a Compliant ICO, 46 SEC. REG. L.J. 309 (2018).
- Co-Author, Investor Fairness in Securities Arbitration: A Perceptional Issue?, 45 SEC. REG. L.J. 259 (2017).
- Co-Author, Luxottica Group, S.p.A. v. Greenbriar Marketplace II, LLC—Landlord is “Knocked Off” by Tenant’s Conduct, ICSC Shopping Center Legal Update (June 2017).
