Profile: Rodd M Schreiber

Capital Markets

Biography: Capital Markets

Rodd M Schreiber is a corporate partner concentrating in mergers and acquisitions, corporate financings and other corporate and securities matters. Mr Schreiber has represented corporate clients and financial advisers in a wide variety of domestic and international transactions, including public and private acquisitions and divestitures, negotiated and contested takeovers, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and other strategic alliances. He regularly represents issuers and investment banks in a broad range of public offerings, private placements and venture capital financings. Mr Schreiber provides continuing counselling to corporate clients regarding general corporate and securities matters, including governance, securities law compliance and disclosure issues.

Mr Schreiber recently represented Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc in its contested US$10 billion merger with CBOT Holdings Inc; Longview Fibre Company in its defence against a hostile takeover bid, review of strategic alternatives and negotiated sale to Brookfield Asset Management for US$2.2 billion; and LaSalle Partners Incorporated in its approximately US$1 billion merger with Jones Lang Wootton to form Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated.

In the corporate finance area, Mr Schreiber recently represented Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc, LaSalle Partners Incorporated and Prism Financial Corporation in their initial public offerings; Playboy Enterprises Inc in a US$115 million senior secured note offering; CSFB, as managing underwriter, in a US$500 million common stock offering by Navistar Inc; and Merrill Lynch & Co Inc as managing underwriter in a US$125 million shelf debt registration by Brunswick Corporation and a US$260 million senior subordinated note offering by SPX Corporation.

Mr Schreiber was included in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007 and Who's Who Legal: Illinois 2007.