Emily Deagen
Partner, Corporate Department, Attorney at Paul Hastings LLP
About
Emily Deagen, Corporate Department partner at Paul Hastings, represents searchers, investors, and companies in search funds. She handles fund formation, fundraising, and acquisitions, then advises on company operations and exit strategies in entrepreneurship through acquisition. In the Boston Private Equity practice, she counsels private credit, growth equity, and private equity funds. She advises privately held companies and those funds on equity investments, leveraged buyouts, and platform and add-on acquisitions. She handles debt and equity financings, recapitalizations, and sales. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University in Industrial and Labor Relations, and Best Lawyers named her to Ones to Watch in Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law. Her deal work reaches insurers, consumer products makers, media and entertainment businesses, and companies in technology, healthcare, and life sciences, from the first acquisition through the exit.
Who is a good fit for Emily Deagen
- Searchers and investors working through an entrepreneurship through acquisition and its exit.
- Private credit, growth equity, and private equity funds pursuing a platform or add-on acquisition.
- Privately held companies in a sale, a leveraged buyout, or a recapitalization.
Education and admissions
- Education
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 2015
- Cornell University, B.S., 2012
- Bar admissions
- Massachusetts, New York
Recognition
- Ones to Watch, Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Best Lawyers
- Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Accelerator Program (August 2023)
- Excellence in the Law: Up & Coming Lawyer, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
Specialties
Deal profile
- Typical deal size
- Any deal size
- Remote work
- In-person / regional