Kate Ginsbern’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, and corporate governance matters.

Kate joined the firm in 2019.

Notable Experience

  • Howmet Aerospace in its pending $1.8 billion acquisition of Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing from Stanley Black & Decker.

  • Barclays Bank Delaware, the wholly owned U.S. consumer banking subsidiary of Barclays PLC, in its pending $800 million acquisition of Best Egg.

  • phoenixNAP, a global IT services provider, in the pending sale of its Phoenix data center and colocation business to RadiusDC.

  • Warburg Pincus in several transactions, including in its $2.16 billion sale of Sundyne to Honeywell International, its equity investment in CData Software, and its acquisition of TRC Companies.

  • Walgreens Boots Alliance in connection with its $6.5 billion strategic transaction with Amerisource Bergen Corporation and various other corporate governance matters.

  • Summit Health-City MD, a Warburg Pincus portfolio company, in its $8.9 billion sale to VillageMD.

  • International Flavors & Fragrances in its $1.3 billion sale of its Microbial Control business.

  • Johnson Controls in several transactions, including its $455 million acquisition of FM:Systems and the acquisition of Silent-Aire Manufacturing.

  • Google in its acquisition of Raxium.

  • McCormick & Company in its $800 million acquisition of the parent company of Cholula Hot Sauce.

  • Suzano in its $110 million acquisition of Pactiv Evergreen’s paper mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and extrusion facility in Waynesville, North Carolina.

  • CSL Vifor in its acquisition of assets and rights to the development, manufacture, and commercialization of Korsuva/Kapruvia, a prescription medicine to treat pruritus (itching) associated with chronic kidney disease.

  • Sixth Street in its growth investment in Milan Laser.

  • Brooklyn Public Library in its strategic alliance with the Brooklyn Historical Society.

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Selected Activities

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  • Director, Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition Team, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
  • Teaching Fellow, Academic Support Program, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

  • Trial Paralegal, Manhattan District Attorney’s office, 2014-2016