Zacharias joins McGuireWoods from Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney

Penny Zacharias has joined McGuireWoods' Pittsburgh office as a partner, building the Richmond, Va.-based firm's debt finance practice. She had been a shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Zacharias' practice focuses on debt financing and secured transactions, including origination of asset-based and acquisition financing and leveraged finance transactions, and she has structured large syndicated deals in which multiple banks team on a deal, spreading the risk. "She's the foundational…