Mr Andrew Chizzik > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
767 5TH AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10153
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Andrew Chizzik
Position
Partner
Career
Andrew Chizzik is a partner in Weil’s Private Funds practice, representing U.S. and non-U.S. private investment fund sponsors in structuring and negotiating the terms of domestic and offshore private equity funds. In addition, he advises private investment fund sponsors and their personnel with various employment and separation agreements and economic sharing arrangements. Andrew also represents certain prominent limited partners in connection with their investments in private investment funds, real estate funds and venture capital funds, as well as buyers and sellers of secondary interests in private investment funds. Clients include Apollo Global Management, Brookfield Asset Management, Genstar Capital, JLL Partners, PSP, and WL Ross & Co.
Education
Cornell University (B.S., 2001); Fordham University School of Law (J.D., 2004).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP acts for prominent asset managers, namely Brookfield Asset Management and Sixth Street Partners, but is also frequently assists middle market and emerging clients in the space, where they cover the full spectrum of assets, with their recent workload including a multitude of buyout and growth equity funds. Practice head Jonathon Soler works on the sponsor side advising funds and institutional investors on formation matters and minority interest sales. Andrew Chizzik works with fund sponsors and limited partners on structuring and negotiating terms of private equity funds, real estate funds and venture capital funds, while Stephanie Srulowitz has extensive experience in secondary transactions, fund restructurings and continuation funds. All lawyers mentioned are in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- 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
- Tax > International tax
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Industry focus > Sport
- 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
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- 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
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense