Bio

David Hornyak focuses his practice on mergers & acquisitions and private equity-backed corporate transactions. He regularly represents publicly and privately held companies, private equity funds, family offices and institutional co-investors, independent sponsors and executives in a wide variety of transactional matters, including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, platform and add-on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, control, minority, growth and structured equity investments, joint ventures, recapitalizations, commercial transactions, executive employment agreements and corporate governance matters. His transactional experience extends across numerous borders and spans a wide variety of industries, including specialty metals and steel, electronics, aerospace, aviation, distribution and manufacturing, healthcare, consumer products, food and beverage, oil and gas, and transportation and technology. Dave brings a partner approach to client engagements and leverages McGuireWoods’ firm-wide emphasis on matching world-class service and capabilities with an entrepreneurial spirit to deliver tremendous value to his clients. He also regularly acts as outside general counsel for privately held companies and private equity-backed portfolio companies that have limited internal legal resources. Dave co-leads the firm’s regional independent sponsor roundtable groups in Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Dave is the managing partner of the firm’s Pittsburgh office.