Experience

Sean Odendahl, a partner in HRO’s corporate group, concentrates his practice on middle-market mergers and acquisitions, including: private-equity and strategic investments; acquisitions and divestitures (including distressed and other special situations); and middle-market company issues. Mr. Odendahl has represented businesses in a variety of transactions and regulatory matters, including:

• public and private acquirers and sellers in domestic, cross-border, and multi-jurisdictional international mergers and acquisitions;
• private-equity funds and other financial buyers in investments and exits in managed healthcare, durable goods, aerospace, entertainment, and defense-goods manufacturers;
• clean tech, biotechnology, software, and life science start-up and early-stage companies in angel and venture-capital financing, corporate governance, and AIM Market admission; and
• issuers and shareholders in initial public offerings; SEC, NYSE, and NASDAQ compliance filings; “going-private” transactions; and takeovers.

Mr. Odendahl joined HRO in 2006. Prior to joining HRO, Mr. Odendahl was an associate at Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLP in Chicago and clerked for Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Professional & Community Affiliations

Colorado Super Lawyers (2009 and 2010) recognized among Colorado Rising Stars for Mergers & Acquisitions.

Mr. Odendahl was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review, and served as a paratrooper and noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army, where he was decorated for active combat duty in the Persian Gulf War (1990-91).

The September 24, 2007 issue of Law Week Colorado named Mr. Odendahl one of a select group of “up & coming” lawyers in Colorado.

Publications and Speeches

Articles that Mr. Odendahl has authored include the following:

• Co-Author: President Obama’s Regulatory Reform Proposal Targets All Private Investment Funds (6/09).
• Co-Author: To Club or Not to Club? Implications of the D.O.J.'s Probe of Private Equity Deals for Anticompetitive Practices (10/06).
• Co-Author: MICHAEL ROSENBAUM, BUILDING VALUE THROUGH INVESTOR RELATIONS, sidebar: Disclosure Rules for Insider Transactions (2004).
• Author: Who Owns the Past in U.S. Museums?: An Economic Analysis of Cultural Patrimony Ownership, 2001 U. ILL. L. REV. 475. 

Mr. Odendahl’s M&A-related speaking engagements include the following:

• Art of the Equity Deal for Startup and Growth Companies, Part 2, Professional Education Broadcast Network Live Teleseminar, April 28, 2010 (Panelist).
• How Have Expectations Changed in a Buyer’s Market for Professional Services: ACG/Rocky Mountain Corporate Growth Conference; Denver, Colorado, March 17, 2010 (Moderator).
• Distressed M&A Conference: Distressed M&A - Due Diligence; Denver, Colorado, August 20, 2009 (Panelist).
• Tectonic Shifts in Fair Value Accounting: Surviving the New World of SFAs 157; San Francisco, California, November 7, 2007 (Moderator).
• Lessons from Halliburton, Recent Developments in M&A Practice, presentation to M&A Subsection of the Colorado Bar Association Business Law Section; Denver, Colorado, November 8, 2006 (Speaker).

 

 

 

 

- CleanTech
- Commercial Law and Securities
- Distressed Mergers & Acquisitions
- Emerging Technology and Venture Finance Practice
- International Business Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Private Investment Funds
- Securities and Capital Markets
- Sports and Entertainment
- Telecommunications