Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Jennifer Berrent is a counsel in the Corporate Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2006.

Practice

Ms. Berrent’s practice focuses on corporate and securities law matters. She represents companies at all stages of development, financial institutions and investment funds in mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, private equity investments and other transactions, as well as general corporate matters.

Recent Transactions

• Represented Pantheon Ventures in numerous private equity secondary transactions
• Represented a private equity fund in its purchase of a revenue stream and equity interests from a European specialty pharmaceutical company
• Represented a hedge fund in its acquisition of a special purpose entity holding derivative instruments
• Represented Arlington Tankers in its merger with General Maritime
• Represented a large financial institution in a $2.75 billion public common stock offering
• Represented Skyworks Solutions in a dual-tranche Rule 144A offering of convertible subordinated notes
• Represented Savient Pharmaceutical in the disposition of its liquid pharmaceuticals business
• Represented Ocean Power Technologies, a company listed on the AIM market, in its initial public offering on NASDAQ
• Represented the underwriters in the US initial public offering of Labopharm, a company also listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
• Represented venture capital funds and start-up companies in many financings

Areas of Practice

• Financial Services
• Corporate
• Corporate and Transactional

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Joint Ventures, Public Finance, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• New York University School of Law, 2000
  JD
• University of Pennsylvania, 1993
  BS
  Honors: magna cum laude

Published Works

• ABA's Business Law Today: Trends in the Private Equity Secondary Market, 2009, 2009
• Trends in the Private Equity Secondary Market, 2009
• Trends in the Private Equity Secondary Market, 2008
• Troubled Asset Relief Program Update: Treasury Completes Major Financial Institution Commitments, 2008

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