Heather Emmel > 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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Heather Emmel
Position
Partner
Career
Heather Emmel is a partner in Weil’s Capital Markets practice and primarily represents private equity and corporate clients globally in debt offerings (including high-yield debt, mezzanine debt, and investment grade debt), equity offerings (including IPOs and SPACs), and other capital markets transactions across a variety of industries. She has wide-ranging experience in acquisition and leveraged finance transactions, cross-border, and other complex securities offerings. She also represents issuers and investment banks in structuring and executing innovative liability management transactions. Clients include Advent, American Securities, Brookfield, CBL Properties, Centerbridge, GameStop Corporation, Getty Images, The Gores Group, and Providence Equity.
Education
UC Santa Barbara (B.A., 1992); Southern Methodist University Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1998); San Jose State University (M.S.T., 1998).
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP remains best known for representing private equity sponsors and private equity-backed companies in equity offerings. It is further recognised for M&A-related equity financings. It continues to make further headway in representing large corporates and financial institutions in equity offerings. The firm has also achieved further growth in advising bulge-bracket banks as underwriters. Alexander Lynch leads the highly rated team and is a major figure in high-value equity offerings, including IPOs, especially for private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. The team also includes Corey Chivers , Heather Emmel and younger partner Barbra Broudy. Michael Hickey and Merritt Johnson have continued to develop the team’s connections to investment banks. All are based 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