Wendi Kopsick

Her work spans a broad array of corporate positioning, financial communications and investor relations mandates, as well as transactional, event-driven and crisis matters. She brings extensive experience assisting clients in navigating highly complex and nuanced situations where communications with stakeholders are key.

Wendi has deep expertise across a wide variety of industries, including her work with some of the world’s most iconic brands and leading retail and consumer products companies, as well as a decades-long relationship with one of the nation’s largest publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts.

Wendi holds a BA in English, magna cum laude, from Yale University.

Experience

Strategic Counsel and Financial Communications

Representative client advisory work includes:

• Vornado Realty Trust on a wide range of corporate positioning, media relations and transactional matters.
• Cardinal Health on various strategic communications and investor relations matters.
• Alexion Pharmaceuticals on strategic communications and investor relations matters.
• Ann Inc. on investor relations and media relations matters over 10 years; represented company in its $2.2 billion sale to Ascena Retail Group.
• Tommy Hilfiger on a wide variety of investor relations, media relations and transactional matters over 14 years.
• CVS in multiple acquisitions and on various strategic communications and investor relations mandates over more than 15 years.
• Fortune Brands and its subsidiaries on a wide range of matters, including the spinoffs of ACCO Brands and Fortune Brands Home & Security, multiple acquisitions and divestitures and the sale of Beam to Suntory Holdings in a $16 billion transaction.
• Numerous companies in managing executive leadership transitions.

Restructuring and Bankruptcy

• Party City on its Chapter 11 filing and financial restructuring. 
• Hertz Global Holdings on its successful Chapter 11 restructuring and emergence from bankruptcy.
• L’Occitane, Inc. on its successful Chapter 11 U.S. lease portfolio restructuring and emergence from bankruptcy.
• Century 21 on its Chapter 11 filing.
• CraftWorks Holdings on its Chapter 11 filing.
• One Call Corporation on its comprehensive out-of-court financial restructuring.
• Ascena Retail Group on the wind-down of its dressbarn business.
• Chapter 11 restructurings of Winn-Dixie Stores, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Blockbuster, Borders, Spectrum Brands, Masonite, Atrium, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
• Eddie Bauer's Chapter 11 filing and Section 363 sale to Golden Gate Capital.
• RPM International’s Chapter 11 reorganization of its Specialty Products Holding Corp. (SPHC) subsidiary and successful resolution of its asbestos personal injury claims.

Transactions

• PS Business Parks on its $7.6 billion sale to affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate.
• ServiceMaster Global Holdings on the $1.5 billion sale of its ServiceMaster Brands businesses.
• Legg Mason on its $6.5 billion sale to Franklin Templeton.
• Residential Mortgage Services Holdings, Inc. on its sale to Guild Holdings Company.
• Avista Corporation in its proposed C$6.7 billion sale to Hydro One Limited.
• Vornado in the spinoff of its Washington, DC business and the $8.4 billion merger of that business with the operating company and certain select assets of The JBG Companies.
• HSN, Inc. in its sale to QVC parent, Liberty Interactive Corporation.
• Piedmont Natural Gas in its $6.7 billion sale to Duke Energy.
• Lowe’s in its acquisitions of RONA, Maintenance Supply Headquarters and Orchard Supply Hardware assets.
• Digital First Media in its sale of The Salt Lake Tribune.
• Warnaco Group in its sale to PVH in a $2.9 billion transaction.
• Staples in its unsolicited offer for and successful acquisition of Dutch office equipment supplier Corporate Express.