Jake Heck

Jake is a results-driven attorney who believes curiosity and adaptability are choices. 

He uses his passion, creativity and attention to detail to solve problems and develop lasting client relationships. Jake has experience representing buyers and sellers in transactions ranging in size, structure, and across a variety of industries. He helps advise clients on potential risks and mitigations strategies through all stages of the transaction by conducting due diligence, preparing diligence memoranda and negotiating and drafting ancillary transaction documents. He also advises clients about legal issues encountered throughout their life cycles, including corporate structuring and entity formation, corporate governance, contract negotiation, capital raising and general business matters.

• Represented purchaser in its $500M refinance and acquisition of a national agricultural producer.
• Represented seller in the $180M sale of its global manufacturing and distribution business.
• Represented purchaser of a $12M data management provider.
• Represented seller of a $6M sale of its HVAC business.
• Represented purchaser in the $5M acquisition of a commercial lighting distribution and installation business.
• Represented seller of a $2M funeral and cremation services business.

Education

• Mitchell Hamline School of Law, J.D., 2023, summa cum laude
• St. Olaf College, B.S., 2015

Admissions

• Minnesota, 2023

• Burton Award in Legal Writing, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 2020
• CALI Award (Commercial Law Survey, and Legal Practicum: Business Practice), Mitchell Hamline School of Law, 2022