Kirstin learned early in her legal career that she loved closing business transactions. The clients’ satisfaction was rewarding, and she could see exactly how she had helped further their business goals.
She quickly came to focus on mergers and acquisitions, and over time she focused on the industries where her clients operate: manufacturing; distribution; and healthcare.
More than 25 years later, Kirstin’s focus is still clients and their business objectives. In addition to transactional and strategic guidance on mergers and acquisitions, she advises on securities law compliance, joint ventures, governance issues, private equity and venture capital investments, and other complex contractual arrangements. She leads the firm’s Corporate and Securities & Corporate Governance teams.
Kirstin tends to divide her practice between representing private equity firms in both acquisitions and divestitures, business founders and owners seeking to monetize their organizations through a sale, and large-scale corporations and public companies in the midst of strategic acquisitions and divestitures. She most often handles deals with values between $25 and $500 million. Her experience includes:
- Representing AMC Theatres in $1.1 billion acquisition of Carmike Cinemas;
- Representing a U.K.-based engineering company with the sale of its U.S. division for more than $100 million;
- Representing a private equity firm in its sale of a manufacturer and distributor of production assembly tools and material handling equipment and several follow-on acquisitions, including one cross-border acquisition;
- Representing a large not-for-profit health system in a joint venture to build and operate a psychiatric hospital; and
- Counseling a large hospital system on a $200 million financing transaction.
Kirstin is known for her creative problem-solving and practical dedication to getting deals done. Her priorities are to find ways to say “yes” to client objectives and to make her clients’ lives easier. As a corporate attorney, Kirstin is used to working with in-house counsel, and she strives to help in-house clients shine.
Kirstin serves on the firm's Governance & Nominating Committee.