
Mergers and Acquisitions
Investment Funds
Venture Capital
Private Equity
Corporate Governance
Securities Offerings
Rob R. Carlson is a Partner at Sidley Austin, based in Palo Alto, California. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, private investment funds, and securities offerings. With extensive experience representing both publicly traded and privately held corporations, Rob is a trusted advisor in strategic transactions. His practice areas include Corporate M&A, Investment Funds, and Venture Capital. Rob has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America and Northern California Super Lawyer for his expertise in corporate law. He has a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Rob Carlson's representative experience includes advising:

- Radiology Partners and its subsidiary Mosaic Clinical Technologies acquired the target/assets from Cognita Imaging, Inc. in a acquisition on not available. - Deal value was 1000000000 Sector: Healthcare; Location: USA. - On the acquirer side, not available advised, led by Rob Carlson, Sara Carian, Joshua Hofheimer, Becca Davis, Zach Johnston, Collin Marshall, Lauren Gallagher, Alexandra Peterson, Lindsay Fisher-McFarland, Deeona Gaskin, Josefine Sommer, Kevin Sforza, Chad Ehrenkranz, George Maliha, Scott Goldstein, Rebecca Stuart, Allison Ivey Toth, Sheri Porath Rockwell, Benjamin Nager, Suresh Advani, Rachel Kleinberg, John Schaff
Nov 19 2025
1B
M&A

Partner
2017 – Unknown
Partner, Corporate Department
2016 – 2017
Partner
2001 – 2016

- Performance Investment Partners LLC and Kingswood Capital Management LLC acquired the target/assets from Franchise Group in a acquisition on not available. - Deal value was 1100000000 Sector: Retail; Location: USA. - On the acquirer side, not available advised, led by Martin Wellington, Idan Netser, Feifei Bian, Rob R. Carlson, Ryan M. Hicks, Jake Funk, Peiyu Yu, Samantha L. Carvalho, Becca A. Davis, Genevieve G. Weiner, Sam Newman, Jeri Leigh Miller, Lexi Schneider, Bruce Banks, Angela Fontana, Adam M. Nelson, Teresa A. Napoli, Madeline Clasen, Alvin Wang, Ash Nagdev.
Apr 18 2025
1B
Private Equity

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JD, Harvard Law School
1995
BA in History, University of California, Berkeley
1992