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Joseph Halloum leads the M&A/Private Equity practice in Silicon Valley. He represents public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, in a wide range of domestic and international transactions, capital structures and investments, governance and activism defense, finance, securities and other general corporate matters. Joseph is a nationally-recognized M&A advisor who has led on several of the largest and most notable technology and life sciences deals over the last several years. Joseph is a member of the firm’s Public Company, Private Equity and Technology industry teams.
Joseph is regularly sought after for his broad-based transactional experience in high-profile and complex M&A and private capital investments, including LBOs, strategic sales, carve-outs, tender offers, take-privates and exits, joint ventures, domestic and cross-border transactions, growth equity, PIPEs and toe-hold investments in public companies, IPOs and SPAC transactions, debt and equity financings, restructurings and recapitalizations, and SEC compliance matters.
He has also represented numerous companies and boards in connection with large shareholder matters and activist defense and unsolicited takeover situations, the majority of which remain confidential. Among publicly disclosed situations, he has advised TriNet Group with matters involving its largest shareholder Atairos Group, Del Frisco’s in its settlement with Engaged Capital, Yahoo! in its settlement with Third Point, Autodesk in its settlements with Sachem Head Capital and Eminence Capital, and Tessera Technologies in its settlement with Starboard Value.
Joseph is deeply involved with his alma mater, UC Berkeley. A regular guest lecturer at Berkeley Haas School of Business, Joseph will also be teaching Corporate M&A at Berkeley law beginning in the Fall of 2024. In addition to teaching, Joseph is also the Founder and Co-Chair of the GC Executive Fellowship Program launched in partnership with Berkeley Law.
Supplementing his active involvement at Berkeley Law and the Berkeley Haas School of Business, Joseph founded and oversees the Emma and Joseph H. Halloum Business Competition and Negotiation Competition. The Business Competition is the first and only competition in the nation that joins together students from a university's law school and graduate business school in a negotiation case competition to tackle a challenging real-world transaction.
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