Nicholas Jay Houpt
Partner
nhoupt@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Special Situations
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Corporate & Finance
- Corporate Governance
- Capital Markets
- Special Situations & Private Credit
- Private Credit
- Financial Restructuring
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Joint Ventures & Strategic Alliances
- Technology
- Private Equity Transactions
- Preferred Equity & Hybrid Capital
Biography
- Handles M&A transactions, special situations and distressed transactions.
- Has particular experience advising private equity funds and special situations funds.
- Advises companies and special committees on public and private M&A transactions.
Nicholas Houpt represents private equity funds, as well as companies in a wide range of industries on transactional matters, including:
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Dispositions
- Leveraged buyouts
- Carveouts
- Equity investments
- Joint ventures
- Cross-border transactions.
Nicholas has also represented clients in connection with various distressed transactions and restructurings in and outside of bankruptcy.
Representative Work
Private Equity and M&A:
- A global private equity fund in the disposition of a hospitality company to a private equity fund
- A global private equity fund in an acquisition of a NASDAQ-listed hospitality company
- A global private equity fund in its acquisition of a premier provider of healthcare services
- A private equity fund in an equity investment in a restaurant business
- A private equity fund in its sale of an industrial company to a private equity fund
EducationJ.D., Columbia Law School, 2011
B.A., University of Notre Dame, cum laude, 2008
J.D., Columbia Law School, 2011
B.A., University of Notre Dame, cum laude, 2008
Bar AdmissionsNew York
Texas
New York
Texas
Recognitions
- Euromoney Expert Guides: Rising Stars 2020, United States – Corporate/M&A/private equity, 2020.
- The Deal, Rising Stars, 2020.
