John F. Wingerter

Director
412.297.4981
jwingerter@cohenlaw.com

As a member of the Business Group, John regularly assists clients with private equity and mezzanine financing transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, venture capital, business formation, and capitalization, as well as advising on and negotiating other business and commercial transactions.

He has significant experience in leveraged buyout and strategic acquisitions and represents private equity investors and mezzanine lenders in all aspects of investments in sponsored and unsponsored acquisitions, divestitures, and recapitalization transactions.  In addition, he has represented a wide range of domestic and foreign clients-from start-up and early-stage companies to well-established enterprises-in various industries, including manufacturing, chemicals, medical devices, consumer products and various service-based industries.  
 

Experience

John joined Cohen & Grigsby shortly after graduating from law school in 2005. He was a summer associate at the firm in 2004.

He previously served as a research assistant for Professor Julian Velasco at the University of Notre Dame Law School from 2003 to 2005.

He completed an internship with the German Parliament as a participant in Internationale Parliaments Praktikum in 2001-2002.

He was an English teacher at Jagiellonian University in Poland in 1998 and at Tallinn Commercial College in Estonia in 2000. He is fluent in German.

Additional Roles

John is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Allegheny County Bar Association.