Jakob Rendtorff

Jakob Rendtorff is a Partner in the Firm’s Corporate Department, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions. Jakob regularly advises public and private strategic companies and private equity firms on a broad range of transactions and corporate governance matters. He has experience representing clients in complex transactions including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, carve-outs and spin-offs. 

Named a 2020 “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer, Jakob was recognized for advising Versum Materials in its approximately $6.5 billion acquisition by Merck KGaA. Jakob was also named a “Rising Star” in M&A by The Deal, which recognized Jakob as one of the “most promising new M&A partners for 2019.” In addition, Jakob was named a 2019 “Rising Star” by Law360 and a 2020 Americas “Rising Star” in Corporate/M&A by Euromoney.

Recent transactions on which Jakob has advised include:

• Office Depot in its $1 billion acquisition by Atlas Holdings
• ProAssurance in its approximately $1.3 billion announced acquisition by The Doctors Company
• Radius Recycling in its approximately $1.34 billion acquisition by Toyota Tsusho America
• Brembo in its acquisition of Öhlins Racing from Tenneco
• Johnson Controls in its $13.2 billion sale of its Power Solutions business and its $8.1 billion sale of its Residential and Light Commercial HVAC business to the Bosch Group
• Karuna Therapeutics in its $14 billion acquisition by Bristol Myers Squibb
• Apax Partners in its investments in OPENLANE and Accurate Background
• AGCO in the sale of its Grain & Protein business to American Industrial Partners and its $2 billion acquisition of Trimble Ag assets and technologies through a joint venture
• CorePoint Lodging in its $1.5 billion sale to Highgate and Cerberus
• G-III Apparel Group in its acquisition of the remaining 81% interest in fashion brand Karl Lagerfeld
• Ferro Corporation in its $2.1 billion sale to Prince International Corporation
• Bentley Systems in its $1 billion acquisition of Seequent
• Laureate Education in its $1.5 billion sale of Walden University
• Versum Materials in its $6.5 billion acquisition by Merck KGaA 
• K2M Group Holdings in its $1.4 billion sale to Stryker Corporation
• Walgreens Boots Alliance in its $4.157 billion acquisition of 1,932 Rite Aid stores
• Capsugel in its sale to Lonza Group AG for $5.5 billion, as well as its earlier acquisition of Bend Research
• TD Bank in connection with TD Bank’s and TD Ameritrade’s $4 billion acquisition of Scottrade
• KKR and Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec in their $4.3 billion joint acquisition of USI Insurance Services
• The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of GGP in the $15 billion sale of GGP’s outstanding shares to Brookfield Property Partners
• KeyCorp in a $1.7 billion branch divestiture and its $4.1 billion acquisition of First Niagara
• Nets Sports and Entertainment (NSE) and its majority owner in NSE’s sale of its 55% interest in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and 20% interest in the Brooklyn Nets
• Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. in its $1.2 billion acquisition of the EdR Student Housing Portfolio in conjunction with its $4.6 billion acquisition of Education Realty Trust
• La Quinta Holdings Inc. in the spin-off of its real estate business into a new independent publicly traded company called CorePoint Lodging Inc. and the sale of La Quinta’s remaining hotel and franchise business to Wyndham Worldwide for $1.95 billion
• TE Connectivity in the $3 billion sale of its Broadband Network Solutions business to CommScope
• Polaris Industries Inc. in its $825 million acquisition of Boat Holdings, LLC
• Dover in the spin-off of Apergy, its upstream energy business, into a standalone, publicly traded company

Jakob received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2008 and his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from University of Chicago in 2005.