Overview
MacKenzie Thurman is a corporate attorney whose practice focuses on a range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs, private equity investments, securities filings and general corporate law. She represents publicly traded companies, privately held companies, and private equity funds and their portfolio companies in acquisitions, dispositions and other business transactions. MacKenzie has experience drafting and negotiating a variety of contractual arrangements, including purchase agreements, investment agreements, organizational and governance documents, and related documentation.
Prior to joining Robinson Bradshaw, MacKenzie was an attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City.
Experience
- Represents and advises companies in a general counsel capacity on matters including corporate governance, activism and takeover preparedness and defense, and board and committee evaluations.
- Represented a public company in the tax-free spinoff of its health care business into an independent, publicly traded company.
- Represented a public company in its stock-for-stock exchange with a public company in the oil and gas industry.
- Represented a public company in its acquisition of a privately held risk management and regulatory software company.
- Represented a private equity fund in its investment in a bank merger and related securities registrations.
- Represented a privately held startup in the cloud regulatory software industry in its sale to a majority stockholder and its related equity rollover.
- Represented an Irish company in the divestiture of its rare disease segment to an international pharmaceutical company.
- Represented a public company in its acquisition of a private equity portfolio company in the liquid packaging and dispensing industry.
- Represented a private equity fund in its joint investment in a public company in the revenue management industry.
- Represented a public company in the tax-free spinoff of its uniforms business into an independent, publicly traded company.
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Education
Columbia University, J.D., 2022; Ruth Bader Ginsburg Prize Recipient; Charles Bathgate Beck Prize Recipient; James Kent Scholar; Managing Editor, Columbia Law Review
University of Notre Dame, B.A., 2019
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
- New York
