JEFF WYSONG advises clients on a wide variety of public and private merger and acquisition transactions, equity investments, joint ventures, capital markets transactions, and corporate governance matters. Jeff works across a variety of industry sectors, including technology, telecom, healthcare, aviation, industrial technology, distribution, automotive, packaging, mining, industrial, and services businesses.
Jeff’s clients include public companies, private equity and investment funds, private equity platform companies, investors, boards of directors, and investment sponsors. His transactional experience spans public and private M&A, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, roll-ups, carve-outs, take-privates, GP-led secondaries, strategic venture capital investments, joint ventures, registered and unregistered equity offerings, and minority investments. Jeff also regularly advises public companies on a broad range of disclosure, corporate governance, shareholder, and SEC and exchange compliance matters.
Additionally, Jeff has significant experience in transactions involving special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), and he represents SPAC sponsors, as well as target companies and their investors. His experience covers the entire SPAC lifecycle, including SPAC initial public offerings (IPOs), common and preferred equity investments transactions (PIPEs), De-SPAC transactions, and post-closing public company counseling.
Prior to joining Sidley, Jeff was a graduate Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) Fellow at the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship. He graduated magna cum laude from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law and was elected to the Order of the Coif. During law school, Jeff and his partner won the national ABA Negotiation Competition. He graduated magna cum laude from Hillsdale College with a B.A. degree in history.