Robert Goldstein

Robert Goldstein guides private equity funds, independent sponsors and their portfolio companies in assessing investment options, risks and regulatory issues. He negotiates growth-oriented agreements that enable clients to deploy capital safely and positions them for future opportunities.

Rob is a go-to, trusted adviser with significant experience in U.S. and cross-border matters. His decades of experience have yielded long-standing relationships with clients who rely on his grounded, future-planning approach to guide them through the life cycle of investments, acquisitions, dispositions, financings and general corporate governance matters.

Ensuring transactions align with his clients' top priorities and long-term goals, Rob moves deals forward efficiently and cost-effectively. He counsels clients in the early identification of potential red-herring issues and develops practical solutions to potential deal-breakers. A skilled negotiator, he adapts his style to each situation, maintaining good relations with opposing counsel so common sense solutions that serve all parties' objectives can be reached.

Experience

• Facilitated the acquisition of a Mexican-based business that involved complex cross-border issues for a consortium of private equity and strategic buyers. The deal spanned almost 18 months and involved delicate negotiations and managing cultural differences between the parties, along with a host of issues relating to the target's highly regulated business. The matter required perseverance and patience in working through the challenges associated with the numerous buy-side and sell-side constituencies, managing local counsel, and completing a Mexican-sourced debt financing that was unfamiliar to many of the buy-side constituents.
• Negotiated an exit on behalf of a private equity firm from two minority investments with its partner, a Canadian public company. The client was in the midst of a contentious dissident shareholder proxy campaign against the Canadian partner based, in part, on the company's partnership with Rob's private equity client. The negotiation was fast-paced and required consideration of issues outside the arrangement between the client and its partner in light of the activist campaign, including delicate negotiations on cross-border tax and regulatory matters, particularly as both investments involved companies located in Europe and Asia. Ultimately, it was a win-win outcome for the client and its Canadian partner, allowing the client to focus on other investment opportunities.