• Advises on M&A, capital markets transactions and corporate governance matters.
• Go-to advisor to post-restructured public and private companies and on event-driven transactions.
• Co-leader of the firm’s ESG group,  corporate governance and shareholder activism group, and a member of the firm’s management committee. From 2008 to 2018, led Akin Gump’s corporate practice.

Kerry Berchem is a highly recognized corporate transactional partner, with more than three decades of experience in public and private merger and acquisitions (M&A) and capital markets transactions. In addition to advising on complex, multibillion dollar deals, Kerry serves as a trusted advisor to and is called upon by boards of directors and special committees on a broad array of corporate governance and takeover defense matters. She has a bespoke practice working with companies following a restructuring, both out of court or through chapter 11, and developing and executing on innovative deal structures specific to post-restructured companies. Clients rely on her judgment and business acumen to manage risk, solve problems and create value.

• Starboard Value Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: SVAC), a SPAC, in its $3.4 billion merger with Cyxtera Technologies, Inc., a global leader in mission-critical retail colocation and interconnection services.
• U.S. Shipping Corp (USSC) in its acquisition by SEACOR Holdings Inc. USSC was a privately owned, leading provider of long-haul marine transportation for chemical and petroleum cargoes in the U.S. coastwise trade, operating under the Jones Act.
• U.S. Concrete, Inc. (Nasdaq: USCR) in connection with a buy-and-build strategy involving nearly two-dozen completed strategic M&A transactions, board governance matters and $1.3 billion merger with Vulcan Materials.
• 890 5th Avenue Partners, Inc., a tech, media and telecom SPAC, in its merger with BuzzFeed, the leading tech-powered media company for digital content and commerce for millennial and Gen Z audiences.
• Nasdaq-listed reinsurance company in connection with its formation and capitalization, initial public offering and concurrent private placement, multiple financings, board governance matters and  strategic alternatives review.