Practice Profile: Emily Johnson's practice focuses on representing borrowers and issuers in all financing aspects of complex corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs. Her experience includes both the investment grade and leveraged markets, as well as bank financings and capital markets transactions. Emily also advises buyers, sellers, investors and creditors in distressed acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings.

Leadership, Pro Bono and Civic Work: Ms. Johnson has an active pro bono practice and has dedicated her pro bono practice to low-income women and communities in New York City.  Since 2012, she has taken numerous cases in family law and domestic violence-related immigration matters in partnership with Her Justice. She co-chairs the Junior Advisory Board of Her Justice, an organization that provides free legal services to low-income women in New York City. She also serves as pro bono counsel for the Partnership Fund for New York City as it invests in for-profit and non-profit ventures that create jobs in underserved and diverse communities.

Prior Experience:

Associate, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 2010-2018.

Education:

J.D., Duke University Law School, 2010, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Allen G. Siegel Scholar, Law Journal articles editor

B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005, Phi Beta Kappa, Morehead Scholar

What advice would you give to young lawyers?  You are building your professional reputation now—be prepared, thoughtful, hardworking and kind.