Goodwin

Partner

AJ Weidhaas is a partner in and former Co-Chair of Goodwin's Private Equity group, and previously served as chair of the firm’s Santa Monica office. AJ serves on the firm’s Allocations Committee and has previously served on its Executive Committee and as chair of the New York Business Law department. He specializes in private equity and M&A transactions, including growth equity investments, leveraged buyouts and leveraged recapitalizations, going private transactions, SPACs and deSPACS. AJ’s experience ranges from the representation of growth companies in financings and buyouts in the middle market through later stage growth equity investments and LBOs and the representation of strategics in private and public M&A. His industry expertise includes technology, healthcare, consumer products, defense, real estate and financial services.

AJ’s clients include private equity sponsors Behrman Capital, Bregal Sagemount, Great Hill Partners, company clients KIND Snacks, Hyperice, Vertellus Manufacturing and MiraDx, and a number of Fortune 50 financial institutions in M&A and financing transactions.

JD, 1993 Stanford Law School (with distinction) / BA, 1990 Yale University (magna cum laude, with distinction)