Jennifer Norkus, a corporate partner at Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, focuses on mergers, acquisitions, and complex business transactions. She advises clients in the food, logistics, and manufacturing industries on acquisitions, financing, and restructuring. Her expertise spans asset purchases, equity sales, and leasing matters. Known for her strategic approach, Norkus helps businesses navigate intricate deals, ensuring smooth transitions and long-term success in an evolving corporate landscape.
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Committed to protecting her clients’ interests and equally dedicated to getting deals done expeditiously, Jennifer Norkus focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, finance, and general corporate matters.

Jennifer’s critical thinking, hands-on and personal counseling approach helps her clients understand their options and risks, while her ability to transform broad client objectives into specific and actionable strategies and meticulous documentation has facilitated countless complex transactions.

Jennifer works with clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, transportation, technology, communications, energy, financial services, medical devices, and life sciences. In the transportation sector, Jennifer is particularly well-versed in rail transactions, including the sale and lease of railcars and related assets.

Detail-oriented and exceptionally well-organized, Jennifer advises public and private companies in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and cross-border deals. She also advises both borrowers and lenders on debt transactions, as well as issuers and investors on debt and equity financings.

In addition, her counseling extends beyond transactional and financing matters to address a host of commercial and governance issues, such as services agreements, purchase and supply agreements, consignments, equipment leases and entity formation.

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