Hendrik F. Jordaan, Esq., is a partner with the firm Morrison Foerster LLP in Denver, CO. He serves as Global Co-Chair of the Private Equity Investments & Buyouts practice. He specializes in advising financial and strategic buyers and sellers in public and private M&A transactions and complex corporate transactions. In the course of his M&A practice, Mr. Jordaan routinely structures, negotiates, and documents a wide array of transactions including leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, asset acquisitions, stock acquisitions, mergers, auction transactions, tender offers, going-private transactions, and cross-border transactions. His practice spans a variety of industries including telecommunications, technology, media, health care, manufacturing, and sports and entertainment.

Mr. Jordaan holds various regional and national leadership positions in the field of M&A. He serves as Chair of the Distressed M&A Task Force of the American Bar Association's M&A Committee (which has more than 3,000 members and includes M&A specialists from more than 40 countries), as Co-Chair of the M&A Committee of the Colorado Bar Association, on the ABA's "Deal Points Study" working group (having served as Vice Chair of the Market Trends Committee), and on a task force drafting a dictionary of M&A terms.

Mr. Jordaan also previously worked on revisions to the ABA's Model Stock Purchase Agreement and on the Committee's Task Force on Acquisitions of Public Companies. He has been recognized in Who's Who Legal - The International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisition Lawyers, Super Lawyers (2009 and 2010), Chambers & Partners (Leading Corporate/M&A Lawyer - Colorado), and The Legal 500 - United States. In 2010, he was selected by peers as the top M&A lawyer in Colorado as published in Law Week Colorado's "Barrister's Best 2010."

 

While receiving his J.D. from Southern Methodist University, he served as the Editor-in-Chief of The International Lawyer, one of the most widely-circulated legal periodicals in the world. Prior to law school, Mr. Jordaan attended Southern Methodist University on a full tuition scholarship where he captained the varsity tennis team for two years.

 

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