About Amy Risseeuw

Amy is a corporate lawyer who serves as the Practice Group Leader of the firm’s M&A practice group. Her practice focuses primarily on transactional work for corporate and private equity clients. Amy represents private equity clients in connection with leveraged acquisitions, divestitures, control and non-control investments, and secondary sale transactions. She represents corporate clients as buyers and sellers in public and private M&A transactions. She also provides advice to corporate clients in connection with corporate governance and general business matters, joint ventures, and executive compensation matters.

Amy has experience in representing financial and strategic parties in a range of industries, including software and technology, education, biotechnology, medical devices, healthcare, financial, packaging, transportation, and services companies.

Amy joined the firm in 2010. She previously practiced in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She has served as a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law.

Amy received her J.D. and Master of Laws degrees with honors from Duke University School of Law.

Awards & Recognition
Listed among Business North Carolina Magazine Legal Elite: Business (2024)
Listed among The Best Lawyers in America: Mergers and Acquisitions Law (2024)