Zachary N. Wittenberg, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions

Zachary N. Wittenberg

Partner

Areas of Focus

Zachary N. Wittenberg, Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions

Zachary N. Wittenberg

Partner

zwittenberg@akingump.com

Areas of Focus

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Biography
  • Advises on public and private mergers and acquisitions and other complex corporate transactions, often with bespoke or ‘off the run’ aspects.
  • Advises on the corporate aspects of restructuring transactions including Section 363 sales and other distressed M&A transactions.
  • Represents companies following their emergence from bankruptcy.
  • Co-head of the firm’s corporate practice.

Zach is the co-head of the firm’s corporate practice. Zach represents public and private companies, debtors, funds and ad hoc and official committees in the structuring, negotiation and implementation of complex mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, often in distressed and special situations.  Zach advises companies and investors on a broad range of corporate, securities law, corporate governance and strategic matters, including rights offerings, shareholder and inter-creditor agreements and disclosure issues.

Representative Work
  • Represented Blackstone in connection with Centric Brand’s restructuring and emergence from voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings.
  • Represented Kennedy Lewis Investment Management, a leading opportunistic credit manager, as an investor in—and lender to—F45 Training Holdings, a global fitness community, in connection with its initial public offering.
  • Advised Energy Harbor Corp. (formerly known as FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.) in connection with its complex bankruptcy proceeding, including all corporate aspects of its reorganization and multiple 363 sale transactions.
  • Represented the ad hoc committee of senior unsecured noteholders in Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s $30 billion Chapter 11 cases.
  • Represented the first lien minority group of J.C. Penney Company, Inc. in connection with various matters related to J.C. Penney’s restructuring and asset sale transactions.
  • Representing an ad hoc group of first lien lenders of CEC Entertainment, Inc. in connection with its ongoing restructuring.
  • Advised CenterPoint Energy, Inc. in connection with its public merger with Vectren Corp. valued at approximately $6.5 billion.
  • Advised FirstEnergy Corp. in connection with its public merger with Allegheny Energy valued at approximately $8.5 billion.

Education
  • J.D., Duke University School of Law, 1996

  • B.A., Cornell University, 1993

Bar Admissions
  • District of Columbia

  • New York

Recognitions
  • The Legal 500 US, Energy: Renewable/Alternative Power, 2020, 2023; Energy Transactions: Oil and Gas, 2023-2024; Energy Transactions: Electric Power, 2023; Capital Markets: Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers, 2022-2023; Capital Markets: High-yield Debt Offerings: Advice to Issuers, 2022; Commercial Lending: Advice to Borrowers, 2022-2023; M&A: Large Deals ($1bn+), 2022-2023; M&A: Middle-market ($500m-999m), 2024; Project Finance, 2024; Private Equity Buyouts: Middle-market (up to $500m), 2024.
  • IFLR1000 US, Notable Practitioner, M&A, 2019.

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