Biography
Hayden Carlson is an associate in Weil's Private Equity practice and is based in Boston. Hayden participates in the representation of private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies with respect to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Hayden has been part of the teams advising:
- Advent International, as sponsor, in its $400 million acquisition of the aerospace and defense business of Coherent Corp.
- Astorg Partners in its approximately $282 million take-private acquisition of Hamilton Thorne and simultaneous acquisition of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) product portfolio of Cook Medical
- Cove Hill Partners, L.P. in its acquisition of Swiftly Parent, Inc. and in its acquisition of a minority stake in Vantaca Holdings, LLC
- Giant Eagle, Inc. in the sale of its convenience store business GetGo Operating, LLC, including GEI’s GetGo Café +Markets and 270 GetGo locations to Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc.
Hayden received his J.D., cum laude, from Boston College Law School and his B.S., summa cum laude, from North Carolina State University, where he was valedictorian of his undergraduate class.