Mr Adé Heyliger > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
2001 M STREET, NW, SUITE 600
WASHINGTON, DC 20036
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Mr Adé Heyliger
Position
Partner
Career
Adé Heyliger is a partner in Weil’s Public Company Advisory Group. He regularly advises public and private companies, foreign private issuers, pre-IPO companies, private equity firms and portfolio companies on a broad range of SEC disclosure, securities regulation, and corporate governance and compliance issues. His diverse practice encompasses counseling companies in mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, capital markets transactions and bankruptcy/restructuring matters. Adé routinely advises public company boards on various governance matters, including internal investigations, independence determinations, leadership structures and ESG and sustainability matters, and matters relating to shareholder engagement and activism. Prior to Weil, Adé served in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.
Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude), The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A. in Finance), University of Maryland (B.S. in Finance, cum laude).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
(Leading lawyers)Clients represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s team include boards, committees, executive officers and investors, and not-for-profit foundations. The depth of corporate governance knowledge within the practice enables it to work on a wide range of issues such as such as ESG, day-to-day disclosure issues, executive compensation and board-level matters. The cross-departmental team often works alongside the firm’s M&A, IPO and restructuring practices and assists clients with cross-border transactions, for which former SEC employee Adé Heyliger in Washington DC is well known, as well as being instrumental in the team’s SEC disclosure work. Howard Dicker has a multifaceted corporate practice and leads the public company advisory practice group alongside Lyuba Goltser, and has particular strength in the not-for-profit sector. The pair are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Corporate governance United States > M&A/corporate and commercial
- Leading lawyers United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Tax > Financial products
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense