Zoey Hitzert
Overview
Zoey Hitzert is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, practicing in the Capital Markets Group. She advises corporate and investment banking clients on capital markets and other transactions, including initial public offerings and other equity offerings, high-yield and investment-grade debt offerings and tender offers, exchange offers and other liability management transactions.
Zoey also counsels her clients on general corporate, corporate governance and securities law matters.
Experience
Representative Matters
AbbVie in its:
- $63 billion acquisition of Allergan
- issuance of $30 billion of senior notes to finance its acquisition of Allergan
- exchange offers and consent solicitations for ~$22 billion of Allergan debt in connection with its acquisition of Allergan
- $8.7 billion acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics
Bain Capital and its portfolio company, Blue Nile, in the sale of Blue Nile to Signet Jewelers
Bain Capital in its pre-IPO minority investment in CI Financial’s US wealth management business
Bed Bath & Beyond in its up to $1 billion equity derivatives offering
Birkenstock and L Catterton in Birkenstock’s $1.5 billion IPO
Brightstar Capital Partners in its acquisition of a majority stake in Brightstar Corp., including Brightstar Corp.’s $420 million senior secured notes offering
Builders FirstSource in multiple offerings of senior and senior secured notes totaling ~$3.8 billion
Delphi Technologies in its $3.3 billion sale to BorgWarner
Fox in its:
- $440 million acquisition of Tubi
- $1.2 billion senior notes offering
- $1.25 billion senior notes offering
Huntsman International in its $400 million offering of senior notes
KKR in its investment in Cotiviti
L Catterton in its $680 million acquisition of Thorne HealthTech
Nexstar Media in its $665 million add-on senior notes offering
Norwegian Cruise Line in its:
- $2.4 billion transaction involving four different capital markets products, the first-ever four-tranched marketed financing
- $287.5 million follow-on offering of common stock, $750 million offering of senior secured notes and $450 million offering of exchangeable senior notes
- multiple follow-on offerings of common stock totaling ~$3.4 billion
- multiple offerings of senior and senior secured notes totaling ~$5.25 billion
- multiple offerings of exchangeable notes totaling ~$1.6 billion
Option Care Health and Madison Dearborn Partners in connection with over $2 billion of primary and secondary offerings of OPCH’s common stock
Option Care Health in its proposed merger with Amedisys (terminated)
QualTek in its business combination with Roth CH Acquisition III Co.
Stone Point Capital in its $6 billion acquisition of CoreLogic, including CoreLogic’s $750 million senior secured notes offering
The underwriters in over $9 billion of senior notes offerings by Visa, including Visa’s inaugural green bond offering and inaugural euro bond offering
WeWork on its comprehensive restructuring of its capital structure
Vista Equity Partners, alongside an affiliate of Elliott Investment Management, in its $16.5 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems, including related financing transactions
Prior Experience
Associate, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, 2015–2019
- Secondment at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, October 2017–June 2018
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2018, New York
- 2017, England and Wales (non-practicing)
Languages
- English
- Dutch
Education
- University College LondonLL.B.First Class Honours2014
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Modivcare in Raising $105 Million in Incremental Financing
- Press Release Kirkland Advises NMG Holding Company, Inc. and The Neiman Marcus Group LLC on $1.09 Billion Exchange Offer and Consent Solicitation
- Press Release Kirkland Advises JBT on Takeover of Marel
- Press Release Kirkland Advises AbbVie on $8.7 Billion Acquisition of Cerevel Therapeutics
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Birkenstock and L Catterton on IPO