Heather Weigel
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Advises U.S. and international clients on a broad range of public and private company M&A, private equity transactions and joint ventures.
Heather has counseled U.S. companies and international clients on their most important transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, investments, carve-outs, spinoffs, joint ventures and other general corporate and restructuring matters. She has particular experience in U.S. public company M&A.
Heather has advised on major deals in the oil and gas, consumer products, retail and financial services sectors, and has also counseled fintech and media clients on transactional and governance matters. She regularly represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies on a full range of transactions, including acquisitions and dispositions of investments, leveraged buyouts and minority investments.
Experience highlights
Recent Representations
- WeWork emerges from chapter 11
- Nuvei $6.3 billion going-private acquisition
- Crane NXT $270 million acquisition of OpSec Security
- Owens Corning $3.9 billion acquisition of Masonite International
- WeWork chapter 11 filing
- ExxonMobil $59.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources
- Instant Brands sale of substantially all of its assets to Centre Lane Partners
- Summit Materials $3.2 billion combination with Argos USA
- Campbell Soup $2.7 billion acquisition of Sovos Brands
- Nuvei $1.3 billion acquisition of Paya Holdings and related financing transactions
- Weber take-private acquisition by BDT Capital Partners and related financings
- Metalmark Capital up to $50 million investment in Morgenesis
- Molded Devices acquisition of GlobalMed and Schauenburg-Truplast
- Billtrust $1.7 billion acquisition by EQT Private Equity
- TruArc Partners acquisition of Molded Devices
- Precigen sale of Trans Ova Genetics to URUS
Education
- Senior Articles Editor, NYU Journal of Law and Business
Professional history
- Davis Polk since 2017
Qualifications and admissions
- State of California
- State of New York