Jordan T. Bethea

Partner

Dallas
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Overview

Jordan Bethea represents clients on their significant and complex transactional needs, with a concentration on mergers and acquisitions. Since each transaction is different, he focuses on clients' specific business goals for a particular deal and identifies and advises on the risks that are key to both the clients' businesses and their specific deal rationale. Jordan represents private equity sponsors, family offices, public and private companies and other investors across a variety of industries in both buy-side and sell-side mergers, equity and asset acquisitions and dispositions, recapitalizations and similar transactions.

Jordan also has significant experience advising on new ventures, entity formation, capital raising and investments, governance, partnerships, joint venture arrangements and general corporate and commercial counseling. He and his team work quickly to navigate pain points that arise in transactions by crafting solutions to close them in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

Jordan is a Pro Bono Legal Services Coordinator for the Dallas office.

Select Experience

  • Advised investment fund seller in its sale of a tech-enabled domestic and international logistics business to a public company acquirer.
  • Advised investment fund seller in its sale of a business that provides information, project planning and routine replacement healthcare capital solutions delivered through proprietary, cloud-based software to a strategic acquirer.
  • Advised sellers in a sale of a business that manufactures and provides building security devices for use on vacant buildings to a private equity investor.
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Experience

  • Advised investment fund seller in its sale of a tech-enabled domestic and international logistics business to a public company acquirer.
  • Advised investment fund seller in its sale of a business that provides information, project planning and routine replacement healthcare capital solutions delivered through proprietary, cloud-based software to a strategic acquirer.
  • Advised sellers in a sale of a business that manufactures and provides building security devices for use on vacant buildings to a private equity investor.
  • Advised family office in the acquisitions of two television networks, including related financing transactions.
  • Advised seller/founder in the sale of a healthcare management business focusing on intraoperative neuromonitoring to a private equity investor.
  • Advised biologics business in negotiating and structuring a private equity investment for the development of groundbreaking human stem cell and tissue products and therapies.
  • Advised sellers in a sale of equity interests of a grant writing and consulting business to a private equity investor.
  • Advised seller in a sale of equity interests, and related rollover investment, of a healthcare services business to a private equity investor.
  • Advised family office in several control investments in companies in the beverage industry, and post-closing business and investment matters.
  • Advised family office in acquisition of oil and gas equipment manufacturer and portfolio company in subsequent acquisition of another Texas-based oil and gas equipment manufacturer.
  • Advised family office lead investor in restaurant chain with respect to business combination and joint venture transaction with a second restaurant chain. As counsel to lead investor, negotiated and executed the entire transaction for our investor client and on behalf of one of the restaurant chains.
  • Advised an international IT solutions provider and network integrator in its strategic partnership with a leading provider of data center solutions.
  • Advised private equity purchaser in connection with the corporate structure of its $1.4 billion acquisition and financing of a 30-property multi-family real estate portfolio.
  • Advised sellers in sale of equity interests, and related rollover investment, of healthcare release of information business to a private equity investor and in follow-on recapitalization by a larger private equity firm.
  • Advised hardwood and building materials supplier in sale of assets to a German worldwide wholesaler of fastening tools and other construction accessories.
  • Advised Houston-based seller in sale of all assets of a ready-mix concrete business to strategic purchaser.
  • Advised private equity firm in its purchase of all the stock of a company in the business of manufacturing and distributing a variety of steel products to the transportation and construction industries.
  • Advised healthcare group in multiple acquisitions of, and a joint venture relationship with respect to, a variety of hospital businesses and related ancillary business arrangements.
  • Advised coffee roaster, wholesaler and distributor in its acquisition of a tea wholesaler business.
  • Advised Canadian company in multiple acquisitions and a joint venture in the aviation industry.
  • Advised U.S. conglomerate in numerous acquisitions and dispositions of tax-advantaged project assets in the energy sector.
  • Advised public company in the printed circuit boards business in its merger with another public company.
  • Advised Japanese company that manufactures and sells semiconductors in multiple transactions, including its acquisition of a U.S. public company and its attempted merger-of-equals with another U.S. public company.
  • Provided numerous clients with outside general counsel services, including advising on capital raising, employment agreements, consulting agreements, independent contractor agreements and general commercial agreements, including supply, distribution, services and similar agreements.

Recognitions and Memberships

Memberships

  • State Bar of Texas
  • Dallas Bar Association
  • Association for Corporate Growth - Dallas/Fort Worth

Community

  • Cistercian Preparatory School Alumni Association, Board of Directors: Vice President

Prior Positions

  • The Honorable Lance M. Africk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana: Extern

Admissions

  • Texas

Education

  • J.D., Tulane University Law School, 2010, cum laude; Tulane Law Review, Managing Editor
  • B.A., Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin, 2005