Ms Amy Wollensack > Akin > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Akin
ONE BRYANT PARK
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Work Department

Partner; Corporate & Finance

Position

Amy Wollensack represents private equity and other corporate clients in a wide range of complex transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, recapitalizations, joint ventures, going private transactions, PIPEs, venture capital and growth equity investments and other transactions. Amy also advises on corporate governance matters.

She has extensive experience representing clients in domestic and cross border transactions in a broad spectrum of industry sectors, including health care, life sciences, technology, entertainment, logistics, media, consumer products, food and beverage, franchise, automotive, software, manufacturing, financial services, agriculture, defense and hospitality. As a result, she can anticipate and address industry-unique issues that often arise in the transaction process and structure the transactions efficiently.

To learn more about Amy, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/amy-wollensack.html.

Career

Amy joined Akin as Partner in 2022.

Memberships

  • Corporate law committee member, New York City Bar Association.
  • Faculty, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Intensive Transactional Lawyering Seminar.
  • Board member, Housing Plus.
  • Young Patron, Apollo Theater.

Education

J.D., Washington University School of Law, 2007

B.S., University of Richmond, 1999

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)

Operating out of New York, the Akin practice offers its roster of domestic and multinational corporate clients comprehensive advice in cross-border M&A and has a particular penchant for handling distressed transactions. In addition to its core expertise in corporate transactions, the team is capable of drawing on integrated firmwide knowledge of debt finance, capital markets, and executive compensation matters to handle the financial and employment aspects of acquisitions. Zachary Wittenberg leads the department and regularly handles M&A and restructuring matters in addition to advising on corporate governance. Sergio Urias focuses on leveraged buyouts, while Amy Wollensack assists with recapitalizations and divestitures.

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)

Akin combines integrated regulatory, financial, and transactional expertise to offer clients comprehensive advice in connection with buyouts, growth investments, and strategic partnerships in regulated sectors such as energy, tech, and industrials. In addition to working with established middle-market funds and investment managers, the team regularly represents portfolio and target companies in their sales to major private equity sponsors such as Apollo and EQT. Bespoke platform deals in emerging spaces of the market represent a key specialism of the team, which has advised on the buy- and sell-side of fund mergers, IP transactions, and sports team buyouts. Sergio Urias is a key contact for these bespoke transactions and practices from the New York office, which is also home to leveraged buyout and take-private expert Amy Wollensack and practice head Zachary Wittenberg, who specialises in corporate transactions. Dallas-based Thomas Yang handles energy M&A, among other matters.