Kenneth Gerasimovich advises companies, investors and private equity funds on complex transactions and governance matters.
With an eye for creative solutions, he combines legal skills with business sense, helping clients navigate mergers, acquisitions and sales of public and private companies, divisions and assets.
He also advises on joint ventures, SPACs, stock and asset acquisitions and divestitures, tender and exchange offers, proxy contests, special committee representations, PIPEs and other significant corporate matters. He represents companies in diverse industries, including accounting, healthcare, real estate, media, retail and manufacturing. Experienced in representing both buyers and sellers, he keeps clients’ goals front and center, structuring transactions based on their business priorities and objectives.
Clients appreciate Ken’s practicality and responsiveness. Engaging early and often with clients, he gains an understanding of clients’ business needs and desires, identifies potential issues early and devises workable solutions to get transactions accomplished efficiently and professionally.
My job as the attorney is to be a deal facilitator focused on finding ways to accomplish my client’s ultimate goal while keeping my client’s interest front and center.
Experience
- Advised on the acquisition by a Korean investor group of a global silicones and advanced materials company, which was reported as the largest cross-border private equity acquisition in Korea and the third-largest cross-border M&A transaction in the country’s history.
- Represented healthcare industry clients in sales and acquisitions of companies, including a patient-centered and physician-led population health management company, the third largest provider of home medical equipment in the United States and one of the largest cultivators, extractors and producers of pharmaceutical-grade medical cannabis and hemp extracts in Latin America among the largest in the world.
- Advising private equity firms and accounting firms on restructuring accounting firms under alternative practice structures.
- Guided an accounting firm through its acquisition of a law firm in Arizona under the state’s alternative practice structure.
- Counseled an Amazon aggregator (a company that acquires and consolidates multiple Amazon FBA businesses) on its acquisition of several businesses.
- Represented a power and energy company in its sale of a biogas-to-energy project that generates renewable natural gas from landfill gas.
Credentials
Education
- St. John's University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1987
- St. John's University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1984
Bar Admissions
- Florida, 2020
- New York, 1988
Recognition
- Super Lawyers – Mergers & Acquisitions; Securities & Corporate Finance; Business & Corporate (2011-2023)
Insights & Events
News
Vedder Price Named to IFLR1000 2024 Guides for Notable Firms and Practitioners
August 29, 2024
News
Vedder Price Advises LeddarTech Inc. in Connection with Its Business Combination with Prospector Capital Corp.
December 22, 2023
News
Vedder Price Included in Law360 Coverage of Innventure LLC Proposed Business Agreement with Learn CW Investment
October 26, 2023
Deals & Transactions
Vedder Price Represents LeddarTech in Pending Going-Public Transaction with Prospector Capital Corp.
June 15, 2023
