Wendy Heilbut is a partner in the Corporate & Finance Group.
Ms. Heilbut has over 20 years of experience advising entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors at their most transformative moments—when they need not only transactional legal services, but strategic guidance to carry the organization through scaling a brand, launching a bold initiative, or navigating the next complex chapter. Ms. Heilbut represents well-known brands, creative agencies, investors, and owners of significant intellectual property. She has a track record of anticipating challenges, structuring comprehensive strategies, and helping clients unlock meaningful innovation and opportunity.
Ms. Heilbut’s expertise comprises virtually all aspects of corporate formation, intellectual property management and transactions, fundraising, and strategic growth. She advises on a full range of transactions across the corporate life cycle—including shareholder, joint venture, and operating agreements, debt and equity financing agreements, trademark, copyright and patent agreements, and employment and executive compensation agreements. The National Law Journal and TechCrunch have praised her as a leading technology lawyer.
Prior to joining Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Heilbut founded Heilbut LLP, a New York City-based firm specializing in guiding businesses with uniquely valuable intellectual property and creative assets through strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and market expansion.
Ms. Heilbut also founded a non-profit organization that supports new mothers. She was also a founding team member of a technology startup, and was associated with global law firm Jones Day, where she focused on the intellectual property aspects of monumental corporate transactions. Ms. Heilbut continues to actively mentor female founders and engage with the creative and start-up ecosystems of New York City.
Ms. Heilbut earned her J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Indiana University. She clerked for the Honorable Royce C. Lamberth, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
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