Rahul Patel is a partner in King & Spalding’s Corporate Practice Group. He is also a member of the firm’s Hiring Committee.
Mr. Patel’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic corporate transactions, and general corporate work. Mr. Patel regularly represents leading companies (including Cooper Industries, Inc. General Electric Company, Georgia Pacific, Home Depot, Inc., Kemira Chemicals, Inc., LexisNexis, Mahindra & Mahindra, Oxford Industries, Inc., Roper Industries, Inc., SunTrust Banks, Inc. and The Avantha Group) in a broad variety of mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and other control and non-control transactions. A significant portion of Mr. Patel’s practice focuses on cross-border transactions, particularly transactions involving Indian companies. In addition, Mr. Patel has represented both underwriters and issuers in corporate finance transactions and general corporate and securities matters.
Mr. Patel received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of Florida where he was the Outstanding Male Graduate from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame. Mr. Patel received his law degree from the University of Florida, with honors. He is the past President of the University of Florida College of Law Alumni Council, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Florida Law School. He was recently one of three University of Florida Law School alumni given the inaugural Outstanding Young Alumnus Award. Mr. Patel is rated by Chambers Global as one of the leading M&A lawyers in the world.
Publications
- Co-Author of a 27 June 2011 LexisNexis® Emerging Issues Analysis article, “Preferred vs. Common – Who Is Commonly Preferred In Mergers?”
- Coauthor: M & A Transactions In India, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December, 2010
- Coauthor: Accounting for the Unknowable: Risk Allocation & Current Insights on Material Adverse Change Clauses, LexisNexis, Emerging Issues Analysis, April 2009
