Dotun Obadina is a partner in the firm’s Mergers & Acquisition Group. His practice focuses on advising public and private companies on both transactional and corporate governance matters. Dotun counsels clients on both domestic and cross-border transactions in a wide range of industries, including consumer goods, food and beverage, financial services, and technology.
Dotun has received multiple accolades for his work in Corporate M&A. In 2025, he was recognized as a “Rising Star: United States” by IFLR at its Americas Awards, and in 2022 he was named to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” In 2021, he was included in The Deal’s list of “Top Rising Stars” and named to Bloomberg Law’s “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40.” Dotun is a two-time Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) Fellow (2013 and 2020) and is a member of the Planning Committee of the Garrett Institute at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Dotun’s experience includes advising:
- 3G Capital in its approximately $9 billion acquisition of Skechers U.S.A.
- ATI in the sale of its tungsten materials business to Kennametal
- Avient Corporation in the sale of its Performance Products and Solutions business to SK Capital and in its sale of Spartech to Arsenal Capital Partners
- Calgon Carbon in its $1.3 billion sale to Kuraray Co., Ltd.
- Cargill Incorporated in its acquisition of Owensboro Grain Company
- Carrier Global Corporation in the $4.95 billion sale of its global access solutions business to Honeywell; the $3 billion sale of its commercial and residential fire business to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds; the $1.425 billion sale of its Industrial Fire business to Sentinel Capital Partners; and the $775 million sale of its global commercial refrigeration business to Haier
- Cleveland-Cliffs in its $1.1 billion acquisition of AK Steel and in its $1.4 billion acquisition of ArcelorMittal USA
- Eastman Chemical Company in the $1 billion sale of its adhesives resins business to Synthomer plc and in the sale of its tire resins business to One Rock Capital Partners
- Evoqua Water Technologies Corp. in its $7.5 billion sale to Xylem Inc.
- General Mills in its $1.45 billion acquisition of Whitebridge Pet Brands’ North American premium Cat feeding and Pet treating business from NXMH and its acquisition of TNT Crust
- Global Risk Capital in its acquisition of SPX Technologies, Inc.
- Huntington Ingalls Industries in its $1.65 billion acquisition of Alion Science and Technology
- IBM in its $6.4 billion acquisition of HashiCorp; its acquisition of DataStax; its strategic partnership with Palo Alto Networks; and the sale of The Weather Company to Francisco Partners
- NerdWallet in its acquisition of On the Barrelhead
- NRG Energy in the $1.375 billion sale of its ownership interests in NRG Yield and its Renewables Platform to Global Infrastructure Partners
- Polaris in its strategic alliance with Zero Motorcycles; and in the sale of its Transamerican Auto Parts business to Wheel Pros
- Red Hat in its acquisition of Neural Magic
- Riverside Company in its acquisition of Abracon Corporation
- Secureworks in its $859 million all-cash take-private sale to Sophos
- USG in its $7 billion sale to Gebrueder Knauf Verwaltungsgesellschaft
