Bio

Tatiana Lapushchik is Co-Head of the Banking and Credit Practice. Her practice spans both leveraged and investment grade bank financings across a variety of industries, including industrials, oil and gas, consumer and technology and media. Ms. Lapushchik dedicates a significant portion of her practice to advising on financings for private equity clients and their portfolio companies. Ms. Lapushchik has been repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer in banking and finance by, among others, Chambers USA, Chambers Global, The Legal 500 US, IFLR1000, The Best Lawyers in America and Who’s Who Legal. Her work has been recognized in the Financial Times’ 2013 U.S. Innovative Lawyers Report and by the New York Law Journal. In 2019, Ms. Lapushchik received the “Best in Banking & Finance” award at Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards. She was also named to Crain’s New York Business’s 2020 list of “Notable Women in Law,” IFLR1000’s 2021 and 2022 lists of “Women Leaders - United States” and Lawdragon’s 2023 list of the “500 Leading Lawyers in America,” as well as its 2021 and 2022 lists of the “500 Leading Dealmakers in America.” In her leveraged finance practice, Ms. Lapushchik has been involved in numerous private equity and strategic leveraged financings, recapitalizations and debt restructurings, including financings for Lindsay Goldberg in connection with its acquisitions of The Kleinfelder Group, ARYZTA’s North American bakery business (now Aspire Bakeries), Liquid Tech Solutions, Summit Interconnect and other portfolio companies; American Securities and Lindsay Goldberg in connection with the acquisition of AECOM’s Management Services business and subsequent acquisitions of DynCorp and PAE; Six Flags in connection with its pending merger of equals with Cedar Fair; Entegris in connection with its acquisitions of CMC Materials and ATMI; Bakelite in connection with its carve-out acquisition of Georgia Pacific Chemicals; Fathom Manufacturing in connection with its SPAC merger; and White Mountains in connection with its acquisitions of NSM Insurance Group and other portfolio companies. In her investment grade practice, Ms. Lapushchik regularly advises on some of the largest or most complex financings, including financings for Mars in connection with its acquisition of Hotel Chocolat; Concentrix in connection with its acquisition of Webhelp; Crane Company and Crane Holdings (renamed Crane NXT) in connection with the spin-off of Crane Company; UTC in connection with its combination with Raytheon and Carrier and Otis in connection with their subsequent spin‑offs from UTC; FactSet in connection with its acquisition of CUSIP Global Services business from S&P; Skyworks in connection with its acquisition of the Infrastructure & Automotive business of Silicon Labs; Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies in connection with its acquisition of GE’s transportation business; Northrop Grumman in connection with its acquisition of Orbital ATK; DuPont in connection with its combination with Dow and DowDuPont and Corteva in connection with their split-offs; Tesoro in connection with its acquisition of Western Refinancing; and Actavis in connection with its acquisition of Allergan, which was one of the largest financings ever completed at the time. She also regularly advises financial institutions on general financings for their marquee investment grade clients, including Amazon, Best Buy, Hess, Marathon Petroleum, Mondelēz, Pfizer, Tyson and Walmart. Ms. Lapushchik received a B.A. summa cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 1997 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2000. Ms. Lapushchik joined Cravath in 2000 and was elected a partner in 2007.