Bar Admissions

North Carolina

California (inactive)

Education

Duke University, J.D., 2018; Articles Editor, Law and Contemporary Problems

University of Southern Mississippi, B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, 2015

Profile

Zach Lankford is a corporate lawyer with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, growth equity and venture capital investments, corporate governance and other general corporate matters.

Zach has substantial experience representing strategic and financial buyers and sellers in a broad range of complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, cross-border transactions, growth equity and venture capital investments, joint ventures, minority investments and carve-out transactions. His experience spans transactions with valuations ranging from less than $5 million to more than $1 billion, and in a broad range of industries, such as information technology and software, food and beverage, cybersecurity, banking, health care, industrials and education.

Zach also advises clients with respect to a variety of general corporate matters, including governance, employee incentive equity and commercial contracting.

Prior to joining Robinson Bradshaw, Zach was an attorney with McGuireWoods LLP in Charlotte and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles.

Experience

Experience

  • Represented a private equity firm in its sale of a leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) portfolio company.

  • Represented a private equity firm in its acquisition of one of the leading brands of honey in the United States.

  • Represented a private equity-backed industrial automation systems integrator in multiple add-on acquisitions.

  • Represented an independent sponsor in its acquisition of a tech-enabled education company.

  • Represented a private equity-backed information technology advisory firm in its acquisition of a cybersecurity assessment firm.

  • Represented a growth equity fund in its investment in an IT procurement advisory services company.

  • Represented a private equity-backed leading consulting firm in its acquisitions of two data analytics and reputational research businesses.

  • Represented a global leader in food services in its corporate venture capital investments in a grocery-ordering automation company and a ghost-kitchen robotics company.

  • Represented a Charlotte-based national staffing company in its sale to a strategic buyer.

  • Represented a private equity-backed national pet boarding and grooming business in multiple bolt-on acquisitions.

  • Represented a Charlotte-based financial technology company in its Series A fundraising round.

Affiliations

Community Affiliations

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Carolinas, Mentor
  • Charlotte Legal Initiative to Mobilize Businesses, Inc. (CLIMB), Volunteer
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