Overview
Kate Sherburne works with clients to close transformational deals. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and securities.
Kate also has significant experience with M&A representation and warranty insurance, a product that is being used with greater frequency in the M&A market.
Transactional Experience
- Represented strategic public and private clients in acquisition and disposition transactions in industries such as retail, medical devices, software/technology, health care, professional sports, financial services, restaurants, manufacturing and distribution, wholesale, transportation, and recreational vehicles.
- Represented large family-owned businesses in exit transactions.
- Represented private equity firms in transactions involving purchases and sales of portfolio companies.
- Represented management investors in rollover investments.
- Represented privately held businesses in connection with reorganization transactions.
- Represented issuers in public offerings of common stock, preferred stock, depositary shares and trust preferred securities.
- Represented issuers in private securities offerings and private placements of debt securities.
Services & Industries
Credentials
Bar Admissions
Minnesota
Education
University of Minnesota Law School
J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif (2003)
University of Minnesota
B.A. in History (1999)
Insights & Events
Other Perspectives
- Current Trends in M&A Deal Terms and Tactics
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference, Minneapolis, October 2017 - Private Equity: A Look Behind the Curtain
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference, Des Moines, August 2017 - Complex Deals: Why Do They Have to Be So Hard?
Minnesota CLE Business Law Institute, May 2017 - Representation and Warranty Insurance: Trends, Process and Drafting
Minnesota CLE Hot Topics and Trends in Mergers & Acquisitions, February 2017 - It Ain’t Over ‘til It’s Over: A Practical Analysis of Post-Closing Indemnity Claims
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference, Minneapolis, November 2016 - 2016 M&A Update – New Issues, Evolving Trends & Ongoing Debates
Minnesota CLE Business Law Institute, May 2016 - Representation and Warranty Insurance: Updates on This Important and Rapidly Changing Industry
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference, Minneapolis, November 2015 - Rep and Warranty Insurance Practice Pointers
Turnaround Management Association, October 2015 - 2015 M&A Trends and Representation and Warranty Insurance
General Counsel Forum, October 2015 - 2015 M&A Update: Practice Tips, Trends and Developments
Minnesota CLE Business Law Institute, May 2015 - Corporations: Rules, Strategies, and Essential Documents
Minnesota CLE, March 2015 - From Fishing Lures to Medical Guidewire Leader: The Sale of Lake Region Medical
Faegre Baker Daniels M&A Conference, Minneapolis, November 2014 - Practices and Trends in Today's M&A Market—Critical Deal Points, Rep and Warranty Insurance Coverage, and More
Minnesota CLE Business Law Institute, 2014
Leadership & Community
Professional Associations
- American Bar Association — Private Company Model Merger Agreement Task Force, Representation and Warranty Insurance Annex
Firm Leadership
- Deputy Co-leader, Corporate Group
Honors
- Chambers USA — Minnesota, Corporate/M&A, "Up and Coming" Lawyer, 2020-21
- Best Lawyers® — Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2022
- The M&A Advisor—Emerging Leaders Award, 2018
- Minnesota Super Lawyers—Rising Stars, 2018-19