Alastair Papworth
Biography
Alastair Papworth is an associate in the Labor & Employment Practice Group at Haynes Boone’s Houston office. A practical, business-minded attorney, Alastair advises clients on a broad range of employment matters, including compliance with workplace laws, agreements with employees and executives, and workplace issues such as employee discipline and termination.
Alastair also provides strategic counseling on employment matters arising in complex transactions. He works with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, and other business clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, and related transactional matters.
His experience also includes assisting clients with general corporate governance and day-to-day corporate matters. With a background spanning employment counseling, private equity transactions, and complex business matters, Alastair helps clients navigate workplace and transaction-related issues with a practical, business-focused approach.
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Alastair has advised clients on labor and employment matters in the context of mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions, including:
- A public company in its multibillion-dollar strategic sale.
- A public life sciences company in a multibillion-dollar strategic transaction.
- A private equity sponsor and its portfolio company in the multibillion-dollar acquisition of a global services company.
- A pharmaceutical company in its sale to another pharmaceutical company for more than $500 million.
- Private equity sponsors in acquisitions of medical equipment, healthcare analytics, and technology companies, with transaction values ranging from approximately $120 million to $325 million.
- A technology company in its $220 million sale to a global risk management technology company.
- A private equity sponsor in its $220 million acquisition of a physician-owned medical group.
- A private equity sponsor in its approximately $160 million acquisition of a life sciences company.
- A defense technology company in its $130 million strategic acquisition.
- A private equity sponsor and its portfolio company in their $100 million strategic acquisition of a SaaS business.
- A technology company in multiple strategic acquisitions, each valued at more than $100 million.
- Healthcare and life sciences companies in transactions involving pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare technology and medical services businesses, with transaction values ranging from approximately $20 million to $80 million.
- Private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in acquisitions of medical groups, homecare companies, clinics and other healthcare businesses.
- A healthcare manufacturing company in its acquisition of a manufacturing facility.
- Technology and healthcare technology companies in strategic sales and acquisitions involving software developers, technology providers and healthcare organizations.
Certain matters were handled before Alastair joined Haynes Boone.
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- Included in the "Ones to Watch" category of Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, for Corporate Law in 2024-2026 and for Labor and Employment Law 2026.
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- "DHS Ends Temporary Suspension of Form I-9 Physical Examination Requirements and Announces Alternative Verification Procedure and Revised Form I-9," co-author, Goodwin Procter LLP Alert, July 27, 2023.
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Education
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School, 2016, with honors
- B.S., Political Science, University of Utah, 2013, magna cum laude
- B.S., Philosophy, University of Utah, 2013, magna cum laude
Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Texas
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