Jenny Hochenberg

Practice Areas

Jenny focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and shareholder activism defense. Jenny has worked on some of the biggest and most transformative M&A transactions of our time, both purely US as well as cross-border. Her clients have included Afterpay, Atlas Air Worldwide, bp, Cable One, Canadian National Railway, Cincinnati Bell, City Brewing, CommScope, Crown Castle, Exyte, GW Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Light & Wonder, Moda Operandi, NCR, Pitney Bowes, Scientific Games, Time Warner, US Foods, Viatris and Yahoo.

Jenny has consistently been recognized as a leading advisor by numerous publications and legal directories. She has been named as a Rising Star: Mergers and Acquisitions by Law360 in 2022, recognizing her as one of six outstanding M&A lawyers in the nation under the age of 40. She is recognized for her work in M&A by Who’s Who Legal: M&A and Governance and IFLR1000, and was named one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” by Lawdragon. In 2021 and 2022, she was shortlisted for the “M&A Lawyer of the Year” award at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards and in 2022, was named to Crain’s New York Business’ list of “Notable Women in Law.”

Jenny is a thought leader and frequent speaker on emerging trends in M&A and corporate governance law. She is deeply involved with the American Bar Association, where she is currently Vice Chair of its Acquisition of Public Companies Subcommittee. In addition, Jenny is a contributing editor to the Legal 500’s 2022 M&A Country Comparative Guide, and in 2021, she was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board (M&A) of Law360.

Jenny sits on the board of directors of DirectWomen, a national non‑profit organization dedicated to increasing the representation of women lawyers on corporate boards.

Jenny was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a member of the New York Stanford Law School Chapter Committee, which serves to strengthen the connections among alumni in New York and between alumni and the school.