Ashley Gullett has served as the lead lawyer on numerous complex business transactions involving private and public companies and private equity funds. She also acts as the primary legal advisor for a variety of privately held companies and regularly negotiates significant commercial arrangements for clients.
Ashley's transaction experience includes a wide assortment of deal structures, including leveraged buyouts, divestitures, mergers, carve-outs, cross-border transactions, minority investments, and distressed transactions inside and outside of bankruptcy proceedings. She advises clients from a variety of industries, including health care, technology, financial services, and industrials.
Ashley's recent engagements include advising Koch Ag & Energy Solutions, LLC, an affiliate of Koch Industries, in the $3.6 billion acquisition of Iowa Fertilizer Company; VSE Corporation in the acquisition of Desser Aerospace for $124 million and the concurrent spin-off of Desser's proprietary solutions business to Loar Group for $30 million; The Riverside Company in its acquisition of Kaseware, a leading provider of investigation management software sold to public safety agencies and corporations; and Roper Technologies in the acquisition by subsidiary Deltek of the business of Replicon
Ashley was named among the Top Women in Dealmaking for 2023 by The Deal and teaches an M&A course to second- and third-year law students at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. She serves as a member of the board of directors of VOICEcorps, a nonprofit organization that provides services to the visually impaired. Ashley is the New Lawyers Group coordinator in the Columbus Office.
Expérience
Autres publications
Publications Prior to Jones Day
Winter 2016
Becoming Part of Something Bigger, ATI Physical Therapy Partner Connections
- December 2022
2022 CLE Academy; Tips and Trends for Avoiding Deal Litigation - October 2022
2022 CLE Academy; Tips and Trends for Avoiding Deal Litigation - Spring 2022
Adjunct Professor, The Ohio State University College of Law — Mergers & Acquisitions - May 2022
5th Annual Midwestern M&A Forum, Jones Day CLE - February 2022
Transactional Boot Camp: Indemnification Provisions and R&W Insurance - December 2018
A Brave New World: M&A Trends in 2018 and Beyond, Jones Day CLE Academy - June 2018
MBA in a Day: Panel on Diversity and Communications between Law Firms and Clients - Fall 2011
Adjunct Professor, The Ohio State University College of Law
Speaking Engagements Prior to Jones Day
February 2018
National Association of Women Lawyers (Women in Corporate Transactions Affinity Group), Fraud in M&A Transactions
- The Ohio State University (J.D. magna cum laude 2010; Order of the Coif; Note and Comment Editor, Ohio State Law Journal); Ohio University (B.S. in Journalism summa cum laude 2006)
- Ohio and U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Ohio Super Lawyers: "Rising Star" (2015, 2020-2024)
Illinois Super Lawyers: "Rising Star" (2016-2018)
The Deal: "Top Women in Dealmaking" (2023)
Chambers USA, Corporate/M&A, Ohio: South & Central (Up and Coming, 2024)
- Judicial Extern to Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (Spring 2009)