Madison Wiles-Haffner
Associate, Intellectual Property
Madison Wiles-Haffner is an associate in the Intellectual Property Department. Madison’s practice includes advising private equity firms, their portfolio companies and other public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, equity investments, divestitures, carve-out transactions and general corporate and compliance matters. She has experience in various industries, including consumer goods, particularly sporting goods and apparel, financial services, pharmaceuticals and technology. Madison also regularly advises clients in the sports and equestrian sectors on sponsorship and partnership arrangements, league agreements, representation agreements and player contracts.
Experience
- Metropolis Technologies, Inc. in its approximately $1.5 billion take-private acquisition of SP Plus Corporation
- Southeastern Grocers, parent company of Fresco y Más, Harveys Supermarket and Winn-Dixie grocery stores, in the sale of its business lines to Aldi and Fresco Retail Group
- The National Basketball Association's Utah Jazz in its multi-year arena naming rights transaction with Delta Airlines
- Morgan Stanley as financial advisor to Horizon Therapeutics in its $27.8 billion acquisition by Amgen
- Leading manufacturer of baseball, hockey and lacrosse equipment and apparel in its sale to a strategic buyer
- FFL Partners and its portfolio company Accordion in a majority growth investment in Accordion by Charlesbank Capital Partners and Motive Partners
- Full In Partners in the sale of ServiceCore to Mainsail Partners
- Foreside Financial Group, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital, in its acquisition of ACA Group
- Capital Senior Living in financing transactions with Conversant Capital, raising a total of $154.8 million and successfully ending a proxy contest commenced by Ortelius Advisors
- SCVX, a special purpose acquisition company, in its $1.1 billion deal to merge with Bright Machines, an industry leader in intelligent software-defined manufacturing
- Genstar Capital in its acquisition of Foreside Financial Group, a market leader in the investment management industry
- Ascensus and its two main private equity owners, Aquiline and Genstar, in the sale of Ascensus to Stone Point Capital and GIC
Credentials
Education
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D., 2017 New York University, BFA, 2013