Robert J. “Bobby” Cardone is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practices.

His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other corporate matters for public and private companies and private equity firms. Bobby also helps clients with joint ventures, corporate governance, venture capital investments, spin-offs, tender offers, and the day-to-day legal aspects of their businesses.

Bobby has represented and advised national and international clients from industries such as technology, financial services, aviation, defense, energy, health care, telecommunications, consumer products, real estate, and software.

• SAP in its acquisition of Qualtrics International for $8 billion, in Qualtrics’ initial public offering raising $1.55 billion and concurrent $670 million private placements, and in its subsequent $12.5 billion sale of Qualtrics to Silver Lake
• Frontier Waste Solutions in its sale to Summer Street Capital Partners, LLC and Concentric Equity Partners II, L.P.
• Texas Instruments in its acquisition of the Lehi, Utah semiconductor manufacturing facility from Micron Technology
• Texas Instruments in the sale of its Greenock, Scotland semiconductor manufacturing facility to Diodes Incorporated
• Qualtrics in its acquisition of Clarabridge for $1.125 billion
• Hitachi, Ltd. in its acquisition of GlobalLogic Inc. for an enterprise value of $9.5 billion
• Aegion Corporation in its $1.1 billion acquisition by New Mountain Capital
• J.F. Lehman & Co. in its acquisitions of Heritage-Crystal Clean, BEI Systems, Northstar Group Services, Lone Star Disposal and various others
• Signature Aviation in the sale of its Ontic business to CVC Capital for $1.365 billion
• NVIDIA in its acquisition of Mellanox for $6.9 billion
• CSW Industrials in its $360 million acquisition of T.A. Industries
• Capital Southwest in its tax-free spin-off of CSW Industrials
• Teradyne, Inc. in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of Energid
• Patrón Spirits International in its sale to Bacardi with a $5.1 billion enterprise value
• Reynolds American in its $49 billion acquisition by British American Tobacco
• Reynolds American in its $5 billion sale to JT Group of the international rights to the Natural American Spirit brand name
• Reynolds American in its $27.4 billion acquisition of Lorillard and related $7.1 billion asset divestiture to an Imperial Tobacco affiliate
• Tokyo Electron in its attempted $29 billion merger-of-equals with Applied Materials
• Bridgestone Americas in its proposed $947 million acquisition of Pep Boys
• Ajinomoto in its $800 million acquisition of Windsor Quality Foods
• Koch Industries and its affiliates in various acquisitions and divestitures, including the sale by Flint Hills Resources of its chemical intermediaries business to INEOS Enterprises and Georgia-Pacific’s sale of its European nonwovens business to Glatfelter
• Oncor Electric Delivery Company in connection with Sempra Energy’s $18.8 billion enterprise value acquisition of Energy Future Holdings Corp., Oncor’s majority owner

Awards & Accolades

• Named a "Rising Star" by Texas Super Lawyers (2016-2019)
• Dallas’ Best Lawyers Under 40 by D Magazine (2022)