Soheil Ebadat

M&A, Venture, Financing, Corporate Counsel

Managing Partner

Soheil Ebadat is the founder and Managing Partner of Ebadat, where he leads the firm’s corporate practice and manages firm strategy. He represents private companies, boards of directors, special committees, founders, investors and senior executives in high-stakes corporate and commercial matters.

Soheil’s work concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and growth equity financings, strategic joint ventures and partnerships, complex commercial and strategic contract negotiations, corporate governance, executive employment and compensation matters, and related transactional work. He routinely advises private equity and venture investors, strategic acquirers, founders and management teams, and boards and special committees across sports, energy, finance, consumer goods, industrials and emerging technology.

Prior to founding Ebadat, Soheil served as General Counsel of Redbud Brands, a fund that invests in and scales consumer brands. Earlier in his career he practiced at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP, and held roles at Pritzker Private Capital and Accenture.

Representative Transactions*

• Represented DIO Capital Partners on Acquisition of Prowire USA.
• Represented Blue Crow Sports Group in Acqusition of Le Havre Athletic Club (Ligue 1 France).
• Advised Buyer Group in Advanced Bid for Italian Serie A Club A.C. Monza (Serie A).
• Represented Swiss Energy Leader on Strategic, multi-million dollar, Partnership with Fortune 500 Company.
• Represented Redbud Brands on Joint Venture with Leading Global Food Company.
• Represented the Buyer in the Secondary Acquisition of Olipop, a Leading Probiotic Beverage
• Advised on Sale Transaction Involving MFK Vyškov (Czech Republic).
• Advised Vector Acquisition Corporation on its $4.1 billion merger with Rocket Lab USA.
• Represented KKR in its $5.3 billion acquisition of Cloudera, an enterprise data cloud company.
• Assisted MRO Corp. in its acquisition of Cobius Healthcare Solutions, a provider of reimbursement and compliance risk management tools.
• Guided Pike Corporation in securing a majority investment by Lindsay Goldberg.
• Advised Levine Leichtman Capital Partners on its sale of Caring Brands International.
• Counseled Bain & Company in acquiring Umbrage, a leading digital product studio.
• Advised Wander on securing a significant credit facility and launching Atlas REIT.
• Assisted Blue Crow Sports Group in its strategic acquisition of two professional football (soccer) teams, significantly expanding its sports portfolio.
• Represented Magnetar Capital in the $402 million IPO of Star Peak Corp II (NYSE: STPC).
• Assisted Rice Acquisition Corp. in its $1.15 billion business combination with Aria Energy LLC and Archaea Energy LLC, forming a renewable natural gas platform.
• Represented Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its $2.5 billion sale of Sirius Computer Solutions, Inc. to CDW Corporation.
• Advised Acosta in its definitive agreement to acquire Impact Group.
• Counseled Acosta in its acquisition of The CORE Group, a national foodservice sales agency.
• Represented MRO Corporation in its acquisition of FIGmd.
• Advised Audax-backed ICP Group in its acquisition of Choice Adhesives.
• Advised Magnetar Capital’s Energy & Infrastructure group in a $100 million preferred equity investment round in PosiGen, a renewable energy solutions provider.
• Advised Callon Petroleum Company in capital structure initiatives including a $140 million overriding royalty interest transaction and a $300 million issuance of secured second lien notes and warrants.
• Represented Magnetar Capital’s Energy & Infrastructure group in a $100 million preferred equity investment round in PosiGen, a renewable energy solutions provider.
• Advised Wander on securing a significant credit facility and launching Atlas REIT.
• Assisted Callon Petroleum Company in structuring a $140 million overriding royalty interest transaction and a $300 million secured second lien notes issuance.
• Represented a leading fintech company in its $250 million Series C financing round.
• Counseled institutional investors in secondary transactions involving late-stage consumer brand.

*Some of the transactions above represent matters handled by Soheil Ebadat at prior firms.

State Bar of Texas, Business Law and Corporate Counsel Sections

J.D., University of Chicago Law School

Doctoroff Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

B.S., Economics, summa cum laude, Texas A&M University