Biography
Aron Lichtschein is an associate in Weil’s Technology & IP Transactions practice and is based in New York. Aron participates in advising Firm clients in a variety of matters relating to the licensing, acquisition, development, sale, use and commercial exploitation of intellectual property and technology. He also participates in advising clients regarding privacy and data security issues in the context of corporate transactions.
Aron received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he served as a Staff Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property & Entertainment Law and was awarded the Jack J. Katz Memorial Award. During law school, Aron won the Recording Academy’s 2023 Entertainment Law Initiative (ELI) Writing Competition and had an article titled “Tickets to Ride: NFTs and the Future of Concert Ticketing “ published in the American Bar Association’s Entertainment and Sports Lawyer Section (Winter 2024). He received his B.B.A, magna cum laude, from Baruch College.
Aron has been part of the teams advising on the technology and intellectual property aspects, as well as on the data privacy and cybersecurity aspects of the following matters:
- AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. in its $414 million offering of cash and payment-in-kind toggle senior secured exchangeable notes due 2030 by a subsidiary of AMC and in its $1.2 billion senior secured term loan facility
- ChampionX Corporation in its pending sale to SLB
- Core Scientific, Inc. in its $80 million first lien senior secured term loan facility upon emerging from chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings
- Giant Eagle, Inc. in its sale of GetGo Café + Market Stores
- The Home Depot in its $18.25 billion acquisition of SRS Distribution Inc.
- Lone Star Funds and XSYS Germany Holding Gmbh in its $325 million acquisition of the MacDermid graphics business from Element Solutions Incorporated
- Peak Rock Capital and its portfolio company The Tranzonic Companies in its acquisition of Supply Source Enterprises, Inc. (a portfolio company of H.I.G Capital)
- Seven2 and its portfolio company Vitaprotech Group SAS in its pending acquisition of the physical security, access card, and identity reader operations and assets of Identiv, Inc.
- Traliant Operating, LLC (a portfolio company of PSG) in its acquisition of Kantola Training Solutions
Firm News & Announcements
Firm News & Announcements
- Weil Advises Aterian Investment Partners in Partnership with Outlook Group Deal Brief — November 06, 2024
- Weil Advised Blue Star Innovation Partners in Partnership Agreement with Ledger Run Deal Brief — September 05, 2024