Tom Waldman

Thomas A. Waldman

Tom Waldman is a great attorney and counselor. Creative, engaging, and not afraid to tell us when we don’t have our thinking correctly. He’s a true advisor and an indispensable part of what we do.’

Tom’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions, especially private equity transactions, and providing strategic legal advice to corporate clients and investors in alternative assets. Prior to joining Stradling, he served as Managing Director, Legal for The Gores Group, LLC, a private equity fund headquartered in Los Angeles, representing Gores funds, and their portfolio companies, in platform and add-on investments, portfolio company legal matters and exit transactions.

In over 25 years representing Gores and other private equity firms, Tom has advised on M&A, corporate finance, structured equity investments, distressed investments including acquisitions under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code, and fund formation.  Tom is also part of Stradling’s practice in, and opposite, SPACs, and represents international clients investing in the U.S.

Prior to joining Gores, Tom was a partner in the private equity practice group at Bingham McCutchen LLP in Los Angeles.

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Stradling has represented:

  • Gallant Capital Partners in multiple platform acquisitions, growth investments and add-on acquisitions, and in the divestiture of Reveal Data Corporation to an affiliate of K1.
  • A client in acquisition of a distressed loan and subsequent Article 9 foreclosure to complete a strategic transaction.
  • Shalby Advanced Technologies in the acquisition of assets from Consensus Orthopedics.
  • Caprice Capital in add-on investments.
  • Visual Data Media Services in its transaction with Endeavour Capital.
  • Snow Peak Capital in their investments in Sandy Alexander, Dalco Nonwovens and Global Felt Technologies.
  • Firescope in a sale to EMERAM portfolio company Matrix42.
  • A multinational commercial bank in private equity fund commitments by trust clients.
  • Acquisition of an expansion location by KS Wave Co.
  • Acquisition of Icagen assets by Ligand Pharmaceuticals.

For The Gores Group, as Managing Director, Legal:

  • Purchase of Sound Design Technologies from Gennum in Canada and disposition to ON Semiconductor;
  • Purchase of IT Division of Northrup Grumman and add-on of Halifax Corporation in a take private transaction;
  • Purchase of UK-based automotive electronics business from Vishay, and sales of UK real estate and then the operating business;
  • Purchase of Hypercom’s US Business in a transaction resolving a dispute between Verifone and the Department of Justice;
  • Purchase of Scovill out of bankruptcy in a “363” transaction;
  • Take private of The Clark Group, Inc., and sale of Clark to LSC Communications;
  • Acquisition of Millenium1Solutions from Davis+Henderson in Canada and subsequent divestment of divisions to Dimension Data plc and Inmar;
  • Acquisition of Meridian Medical Management from GE Healthcare and add-on of Origin Healthcare Solutions;
  • Acquisition of Fotona from PDP, an agency of the Slovenian government, and Fotona’s US distributor, in a simultaneous transaction, and subsequent sale of Fotona to AGIC private equity;
  • Purchase of VITAC from Merrill Corporation and add-on acquisition of Caption Colorado;
  • Acquisition of Etrali S.A. from Orange S.A., a venture investment by Etrali in Natterbox in the UK, and subsequent sale of Etrali to IPC Systems, backed by Centerbridge Partners;
  • Control investment in Peoplenet Corp., and sale of Peoplenet to Bullhorn, backed by Insight Ventures;
  • Carve out of TurbineAero business (US and Thailand) from Triumph Group;
  • Acquisition of AMI Entertainment.

Prior to joining Gores full time, Tom represented the fund in transactions, and his practice supported transactions by Freeman Spogli & Co., Vintage Capital Group, GKM funds, NGEN Partners, Shelter Capital, and other private equity and venture firms. Additionally he provided transactional advice and counseling to public and private corporate clients.

Experience

Represented Gallant Capital-backed Lightning Step, a provider of enterprise behavioral healthcare software solutions, in the sale of its wholly-owned revenue cycle management services subsidiary, Ava Billing & Consulting, to Medusind, an Alpine Investors portfolio company. 
Represented Keypoint Intelligence, a global data and market intelligence firm for the digital print and imaging industry, in its acquisition of ProPrintPerformance based out of Stockholm, Sweden via its financial sponsor Atar Capital. With this acquisition, Keypoint Intelligence expands its reach globally, securing the number one position in consulting, training, platform development and testing in the production print market.
Represented client Sandy Alexander, Inc., a portfolio company of Snow Peak Capital, in its acquisition of Abbott Communications Group from its founding family.  Abbott Communications Group is a printing company based in the Orlando, Florida area.  The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. 
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Credentials

Education
  • University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, J.D., 1992
  • Harvard University, B.A., 1987
  • California

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