Lisa J. Hedrick - Attorney

Lisa J. Hedrick - Attorney

 

Lisa Hedrick is an associate in Hirschler Fleischer's Business Section. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, entity formation and governance and hedge funds and private equity funds. Lisa is an active member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the American Bar Association.  She serves on the working group for the 2011 Private Target Deal Points Study and on the Judicial Interpretations subcommittee.

Relevant Experience:

  • Represented an international wood pellet manufacturer in a multi-million dollar restructuring and in the post-restructuring acquisition of strategic targets.
  • Represented a distressed manufacturer in the sale of its assets to a foreign strategic buyer.
  • Represented a private equity investment firm with over $800 million in capital under management in the acquisition of a domestic industry leader and its foreign subsidiaries.
  • Represented an international manufacturing company in the refinance of its senior loan facility.
  • Assists closely-held companies with drafting and adopting phantom equity compensation plans.
  • Represented a manager in the formation of a distressed real estate private equity fund. Also represented the manager in connection with the fund's financing of a mezzanine loan to the developer of a 115-acre mixed-use project.
  • Represented a registered investment advisor in the formation of a hedge fund created to consolidate the trading activities of separately managed accounts.

Education:

  • Washington & Lee School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude
  • College of William and Mary, B.A., with honors

Published Works/Speaking Engagements:

  • "Keeping Your Job While Going Through Cancer Treatment", Legal Information Network for Cancer, November 2010 
  • "Investments in Alternative Asset Funds: How to Advise the Client's Estate Planner," National Advisors Trust, February 2010 
  • "Tearing Fashion Design Protection Apart at the Seams," 65 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 215 (2008)

Recognition:

  • Inducted into Order of the Coif
  • Recipient, Washington and Lee Law Council Law Review Award for outstanding student note
  • Recipient, Barry Sullivan Constitutional Law Award for excellence in constitutional law

Pro Bono/Community Service:

  • Legal Information Network for Cancer (LINC)
  • The Greater Richmond Bar Foundation Pro Bono Clearinghouse

Memberships:

  • American Bar Association (Mergers and Acquisitions Committee Member)
  • Virginia Bar Association
  • Richmond Bar Association
  • National Association of Women Lawyers
  • Virginia State Bar

Firm Involvement:

  • Women's Initiatives Network (WIN)

Bar Admission:

  • Virginia, 2008