Jessica Pisani represents clients on complex M&A transactions and across the full investment life cycle.

Jessica combines extensive US and cross-border experience and a commercial perspective to advise private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporations, and global asset managers on:

  • Mergers
  • Carve-outs
  • Acquisitions
  • Dispositions
  • Investments
  • Spinoffs
  • Internal reorganizations
  • Restructuring M&A
  • Liability management transactions

Before joining Latham, Jessica practiced at several other international law firms. 

Jessica’s experience includes advising:

  • Bernhard Capital Partners on acquiring, alongside Stonepeak, Cleco Group from a consortium comprising Macquarie Asset Management, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, and Manulife Investment Management
  • Blackstone Energy Transition Partners on its equity investment in Western LNG
  • Energy Capital Partners on acquiring EnergySolutions, a leading nuclear services company, from TriArtisan Capital Advisors
  • Fibrebond on its US$1.4 billion acquisition by Eaton
  • Fortress Investment Group on acquiring IPValue Management Group, an intellectual property licensing company
  • IG Design Group Americas and its debtor affiliates on selling six sets of assets under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code
  • Just Energy, a retail energy provider specializing in electricity and natural gas commodities, on its sale to IGS Energy
  • MES Intermediate on permanently divesting of certain nonoperating subsidiaries that hold legacy product liability claims
  • Permira on:
    • Selling its majority stake in Boats Group
    • Acquiring Encore Fire Protection
    • Its take-private of Squarespace, a website building and hosting company

Bar Qualification

  • New York

Education

  • LLB, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2010
  • LLB, University of Oxford, 2010