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Overview
Christopher Zochowski is a partner in the Private Equity practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington D.C. and New York offices. He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and general corporate transactions, both domestically and internationally.
Chris regularly advises private equity, corporate strategic, asset management and investment bank clients in structuring, negotiating and executing transactions, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions, including segment or carve-out transactions, public mergers and acquisitions, take-private transactions, distressed and 363 transactions, complex stock and asset transactions, reincorporation mergers, proxy solicitations and issuer self-tender offers.
Accolades
- 500 Leading Dealmakers, Lawdragon (2025)
- M&A: Middle Market ($500 million to $999 million), Legal 500 U.S.
- Corporate/M&A and Private Equity – District of Columbia, Chambers USA
- Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year ($100 million to $1 billion), M&A Advisor
- Corporate/Strategic Acquisition of the Year ($100 million $200 million), M&A Advisor
Education
- George Washington University, J.D. (Highest Honors) 1997
- Georgetown University, B.A. 1993
Representations
Private Equity
- Atlas Holdings in connection with its acquisition of US Farathane from The Gores Group.
- Atlas Holdings in connection with its acquisition of substantially all the operating assets of the Americas business of Exide Technologies, LLC in a court-supervised sale process pursuant to Section 363 of the U.S. bankruptcy code.
- Atlas Holdings in connection with the reverse public merger of its portfolio company, Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc., with Support.com Inc., and subsequent initial public offering and listing.
- Siris Capital Group LLC and its portfolio company, Trident Private Holdings III LLC, a holding company of Transaction Network Services, in a minority investment by Koch Equity Development LLC and co-investors Eaglehill Advisors LLC and MSD Capital, L.P.
- Perella Weinberg Partners in the sale of Northpoint Commercial Finance, LLC.
- Atlas Holdings, in connection with its:
- disposition by Ivex Specialty Paper LLC of its U.S. and Canadian assets to IndusPac.
- acquisition of AGI Media and its affiliates, comprising the specialty packaging division of MeadWestvaco Corporation in Australia, Austria, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
- acquisition of Shorewood Packaging Corporation and its affiliates, comprising the specialty packaging division of International Paper Company, in Canada, China, Korea, Mexico, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States, and subsequent consolidation with AGI Media to create ASG, specialty packaging company.