Bio

Joseph Zavaglia is a generalist corporate lawyer with 20 years of experience advising public and private companies and financial institutions across multiple disciplines, including IPOs and other capital markets transactions, leveraged loans (syndicated and direct) and other complex financing arrangements, corporate governance and other Board of Director matters, public company reporting and other SEC matters and joint ventures and other M&A transactions. Diversity is a hallmark of Mr. Zavaglia’s practice. Bucking the industry trend towards specialization, Mr. Zavaglia instead maintains a broad-based corporate practice and advises his clients on their most significant matters—regardless of industry or manner of transaction. Mr. Zavaglia is Head of Leveraged Finance North America at Cravath and has been repeatedly recognized for his work in the capital markets arena by The Legal 500 US, IFLR1000 and Super Lawyers. Mr. Zavaglia has been described as “among the leading names in the market” with an “excellent reputation.” He has been named a “Next Generation Partner” in both the Commercial Lending and Capital Markets: High Yield Debt Offerings categories by The Legal 500 US. Mr. Zavaglia has been named by IFLR1000 as a Market Leader and recognized as both a Leading Lawyer and a Rising Star. He has also been named one of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America” by Lawdragon and a Metro New York Rising Star by Super Lawyers. Mr. Zavaglia regularly speaks on topics germane to his practice, including in a mainstage presentation at a TechGC conference. Mr. Zavaglia was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received a B.B.A. cum laude from the College of Insurance in 2001, and a J.D. summa cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2004. At Brooklyn Law School, Mr. Zavaglia was the valedictorian of his graduating class and a member of the Brooklyn Law Review.