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 advisors on a wide variety of U.S. 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 also provides continuing counseling to a number of corporate clients regarding general corporate and securities matters, including governance, securities law compliance and disclosure issues.

Mr. Schreiber recently represented:

• CME Group Inc. in its $10.6 billion contested acquisition of CBOT Holdings, Inc., the parent company of The Chicago Board of Trade;

• CME Group Inc. in its $11.5 billion acquisition of NYMEX Holdings Inc., the parent company of the New York Mercantile Exchange;

• CME Group Inc. in its $1 billion investment in Bolsa de Mercadorias & Futuros, the Brazilian futures exchange;

• Longview Fibre Company, a timber REIT, in its defense against a $1.8 billion hostile takeover bid, proxy fight, review of strategic alternatives and sale to Brookfield Asset Management, in a transaction valued at approximately $2.2 billion;

• Menasha Forest Products Corporation, a timber REIT, in its sale to the The Campbell Group for $500 million; 

• LaSalle Partners Incorporated in its approximately $1 billion merger with Jones Lang Wootton to form Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated;

• Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated in its $613 million acquisition of The Staubach Company;

• Deerfield Capital Management in its sale of a majority stake to Triarc Companies; and a minority shareholder group of Deerfield Capital in connection with the sale of Deerfield Capital by Triarc to Deerfield Triarc Capital Corporation;

• the special committee of CCP Insurance, Inc. in the sale of CCP to Conseco, Inc.;

• Newsweb Corporation in connection with sales of television assets to the Fox Television Group and Gannett Co.;

• Dynal Biotech ASA in its sale to Nordic Capital; and

• Perry Capital Partners in its leveraged buyout of Florists’ Transworld Delivery Association.

In the corporate finance area, Mr. Schreiber represented CME Group Inc., LaSalle Partners Incorporated and Prism Financial Corporation in their initial public offerings; CME Group Inc. in a series of senior fixed and floating rate note offerings totaling $2.1 billion; Playboy Enterprises, Inc. in an offering of $115 million of senior secured notes and $125 million of convertible notes; Credit Suisse, as managing underwriter, in a $500 million common stock offering by Navistar, Inc.; and Credit Suisse, as managing underwriter, in a $316 million convertible note offering by Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. He also represented Merrill Lynch as managing underwriter in a $125 million shelf debt registration by Brunswick Corporation and a $260 million senior subordinated note offering by SPX Corporation; and CIBC World Markets, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS and a variety of other investment banking firms as managing underwriters or placement agents in more than 30 equity offerings for companies in the life sciences, health care and technology industries.

Mr. Schreiber has served on the faculty of the Corporate and Securities Law Institute of Northwestern University School of Law and speaks frequently on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Mr. Schreiber was invited to participate in the Future of Finance Initiative organized by the Wall Street Journal. He also served on The International Advisory Council of the 2016 Chicago Olympic Committee.

Mr. Schreiber repeatedly has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The International Who’s Who of Capital Markets Lawyers and Who’s Who Legal: Illinois for mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate governance.