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Jordan D. Temple

Partner
Charlotte | 704.335.9869
Fax | 704.334.4706

Jordan Temple represents a wide range of businesses and individuals on complex business transactions. His practice is focused on counseling corporate venture capital funds, private equity groups, family offices, and angel investors on investment transactions. He also routinely advises public and private companies on mergers and acquisitions, private offerings of debt and equity securities, securities law compliance, and general corporate governance.

He has represented clients in transactions ranging from less than $1 million to more than $1 billion, including purchases and sales of entire businesses, registered and exempt offerings of debt and equity securities, and investments in emerging growth companies.

Representative Experience

Investment Transactions

  • Represented the corporate venture fund of a leading global life sciences company in its debt and equity investments in emerging life sciences and healthcare companies.
  • Advised a private equity group in the equity financing associated with multiple platform acquisitions in the manufacturing industry.
  • Represented a global automotive supplier in its debt and equity investments in a high-growth clean fuel company.
  • Represented the corporate venture capital arm of a multinational lighting manufacturer in its acquisition of a distressed lighting technology company.
  • Advised various high-net-worth individuals and angel investors in debt and equity investments in early stage companies in the medical, biotechnology, energy, food and beverage, and technology industries.

Mergers & Acquisitions

  • Represented Speedway Motorsports Inc. in its acquisition of Dover Motorsports Inc., a publicly traded promoter of NASCAR and other motorsports events.
  • Represented Sonic Financial Corporation in its deal to acquire all outstanding shares of Speedway Motorsports Inc., a publicly traded company that is a national leader in motorsports entertainment, with an enterprise value of more than $1 billion.
  • Advised a publicly traded, leading global life sciences company in multiple acquisitions.
  • Represented a private equity firm in the recapitalization and acquisition of a majority stake in a large multi-location automotive dealership group.
  • Advised a publicly traded energy company in the $150 million stock sale of its fiber optic communications business.
  • Advised an international retailer in its entry into the United States with the acquisition of a streetwear and sports footwear retailer with more than 60 locations, and the add-on acquisition of another streetwear and sports footwear retailer with more than 30 locations.
  • Represented one of North America's top food service companies in multiple add-on acquisitions totaling more than $275 million.
  • Advised a publicly traded software company in the $50 million stock acquisition of a company that provides scholarship management software to higher education and K-12 institutions, foundations, and grant making institutions.
  • Represented a manufacturing company in the $100 million sale of its foam manufacturing assets.
  • Assisted a publicly traded automotive retailer in multiple asset acquisitions and dispositions involving the sale and purchase of automotive dealerships.
  • Represented a fintech company in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a publicly traded and leading online lender for up to $21 million.
  • Represented a residential HVAC company in the sale of substantially all of its assets.
  • Advised a leading manufacturer of expandable polystyrene in its $50 million acquisition of an expandable styrenics business.

Public & Private Offerings

  • Advised a private equity sponsor in the formation of a $50 million fund focused on multifamily real estate investments.
  • Represented an early stage pharmaceutical company in raising more than $60 million through private issuances of Series B and Series C preferred stock in multiple financing rounds.
  • Represented an early stage insurtech company in connection with its series seed financing.
  • Advised a developer in connection with multiple capital raises through opportunity zone funds.
  • Assisted a hospital with its equity raise in connection with the development of an ambulatory surgery center.
  • Represented a real estate investment company in a $14.5 million private equity raise in connection with the purchase of a commercial mixed-use property.
  • Advised a hospitality management company in a $16 million private equity raise in connection with the construction and development of a hotel.
  • Represented a publicly traded natural gas company in multiple registered offerings, including a $170 million at-the-market equity program, a $300 million offering of investment grade senior notes, a $250 million offering of investment grade senior notes, and a $150 million offering of investment grade senior notes.
  • Advised a publicly traded sports entertainment company in a $200 million Rule 144A/Regulation S exchange offer of high-yield senior notes.

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Honors & Awards

  • The Best Lawyers in America "Ones to Watch" in Corporate Governance and Compliance Law, 2021-2025; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Corporate Law, 2022-2025
  • North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2018-2023
  • Order of the Coif

Memberships

  • MeckEd, Board of Directors, 2023-present
  • Teach for America, Community Partner, 2016-present
  • Mecklenburg County Teen Court, Judge, 2016-2019
  • Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Young Visionaries Steering Committee, 2018-2019