Zachary Brecheisen

Career

Zach Brecheisen is a corporate lawyer focusing his practice on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions. He counsels clients on a variety of corporate governance matters, including activist investor campaigns. Zach places a premium on efficiency in providing clients with forthright and practical legal advice in high-pressure situations. He taps his background as an engineer to manage cross-functional teams on complex issues, while driving transactions forward and achieving client goals.

Zach advises clients across a broad range of industries. Recently he represented Evoqua (NYSE: AQUA) in its $7.5 billion sale to Xylem; Cibus Global (Nasdaq: CBUS) in its reverse merger with Calyxt; Misonix (Nasdaq: MSON) in its $520 million sale to Bioventus; and Ansys (Nasdaq: ANSS) in numerous acquisitions (including its $700 million acquisition of AGI). Zach advised midwestern stalwarts like U. S. Steel (NYSE: X) in its sale of Transtar for $640 million and its option agreement with Stelco for a potential $2.4 billion joint venture.

Zach was previously a project engineer advising electric utilities on transmission and distribution system planning.

Zach co-chairs the Firm’s LGBTQ+ Affinity Group and has been honored by Penn State University for his contributions to the law school and DEI in the profession.