Heather Weigel
Partner, Corporate & Financial Services
Heather Weigel is a partner in Willkie’s Corporate & Financial Services Department and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. She is based in the Firm’s New York office.
Heather advises U.S. and international clients on a wide range of public and private company M&A transactions, including investments, carve-outs, spinoffs, joint ventures and other general corporate and restructuring matters. She has particular experience in U.S. public company M&A involving major domestic and cross-border transactions.
In addition, Heather regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies on the full spectrum of private equity transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of investments, leveraged buyouts and minority investments.
Experience
- ORIX USA acquisition of majority stake in Hilco Global
- Mark Walter acquisition of a majority stake in the Los Angeles Lakers
- Big Lots sale of substantially all of its assets to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners
- Strive acquisition of Semler Scientific
- Campbell Soup sale of Noosa Yoghurt to Lakeview Farms
- TWG Global joint venture with an American software company
- Meritage Group sale of interest in TowerPoint Infrastructure Partners
- Summit Materials $11.5 billion acquisition by Quikrete Holdings
- InVue sale to ASSA ABLOY
- Campbell Soup $2.7 billion acquisition of Sovos Brands
- Wheel Pros emergence from chapter 11
- Complete dismissal for Nuvei in securities litigation
- Big Lots chapter 11 filing, $707.5 million DIP financing and stalking horse APA
- WeWork emergence from chapter 11
- Nuvei $6.3 billion going-private acquisition
- Crane NXT $270 million acquisition of OpSec Security
- Owens Corning $3.9 billion acquisition of Masonite International
- A global, integrated energy company in its $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
- Billtrust $1.7 billion acquisition by EQT Private Equity
- Instant Brands sale of substantially all of its assets to Centre Lane Partners
- WeWork chapter 11 filing
- Weber take-private acquisition by BDT Capital Partners and related financings
- Firmenich €41 billion merger of equals with DSM
- Molded Devices acquisition of GlobalMed and Schauenburg-Truplast
- StoneCo combination with Linx
- TruArc Partners acquisition of Molded Devices
- Charles River Laboratories $295 million acquisition of Explora BioLabs Holdings
- Precigen sale of Trans Ova Genetics to URUS
- Fieldwood Energy emerges from chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Monarch Alternative Capital $150 million investment in The Honest Kitchen
- California Resources emergence from chapter 11 bankruptcy
- Basic Energy Services restructuring
- Williams on the Sale of Williams Partners’ Four Corners Area Business to Harvest Midstream
*Heather advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.
Credentials
Education
New York University School of Law, J.D., 2017 University of Southern California, B.S., 2014