Peggy M. Welsh
Member
201 St. Charles Avenue
40th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70170
504.582.1124 | pwelsh@gamb.com
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Peggy Welsh has experience in a wide variety of transactional matters, including acquisitions and sales, finance, corporate governance and real estate. She advises clients in every stage of corporate transactions, representing both buyers and sellers in a variety of industries. She routinely drafts and negotiates purchase and sale agreements, credit agreements, leases, mortgages and transition service agreements. Peggy also assists numerous companies with their general corporate matters, including entity formation, corporate restructurings and general corporate governance. In addition, she has experience in state and federal regulatory matters, particularly with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Peggy serves as the Assistant Chair of the Commercial Transactions section of the Firm.
Before joining Gordon Arata, Peggy worked as a corporate associate in New York at a London-based firm where she routinely handled the negotiation and drafting of numerous types of complex agreements, including shareholder, license, merger, joint venture, restructuring and asset and share purchase and sale agreements. She advised on New York law matters for the 2013 Global M&A Deal of the Year, Chile (the American Lawyer’s Global Legal Awards) representing Mitsubishi Corporation in its multi-billion dollar investment in a new partnership.
In law school, Peggy served as a Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review. She was also inducted into the Order of the Coif and received a Dean’s Scholarship. Before attending law school, Peggy taught math and science at a public New Orleans high school. After graduating law school, she founded the education advocacy program of the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, a nonprofit organization that advocates for law and policy reform to build a juvenile justice system that is fair, compassionate and supportive of positive youth development.
Peggy Welsh has experience in a wide variety of transactional matters, including acquisitions and sales, finance, corporate governance and real estate. She advises clients in every stage of corporate transactions, representing both buyers and sellers in a variety of industries. She routinely drafts and negotiates purchase and sale agreements, credit agreements, leases, mortgages and transition service agreements. Peggy also assists numerous companies with their general corporate matters, including entity formation, corporate restructurings and general corporate governance. In addition, she has experience in state and federal regulatory matters, particularly with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement. Peggy serves as the Assistant Chair of the Commercial Transactions section of the Firm.
Before joining Gordon Arata, Peggy worked as a corporate associate in New York at a London-based firm where she routinely handled the negotiation and drafting of numerous types of complex agreements, including shareholder, license, merger, joint venture, restructuring and asset and share purchase and sale agreements. She advised on New York law matters for the 2013 Global M&A Deal of the Year, Chile (the American Lawyer’s Global Legal Awards) representing Mitsubishi Corporation in its multi-billion dollar investment in a new partnership.
In law school, Peggy served as a Managing Editor of the Tulane Law Review. She was also inducted into the Order of the Coif and received a Dean’s Scholarship. Before attending law school, Peggy taught math and science at a public New Orleans high school. After graduating law school, she founded the education advocacy program of the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, a nonprofit organization that advocates for law and policy reform to build a juvenile justice system that is fair, compassionate and supportive of positive youth development.