Karen Abesamis, Partner at Morgan Lewis

Today, my guest is Karen Abesamis, a Partner at Morgan Lewis who focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), strategic and venture capital investments, and technology transactions. Karen works with early and mature technology companies and companies in other sectors interested in growing through technology. She also advises clients in the tax-exempt sector on diverse issues and transactions—such as formation, investment, and compliance—and advises non-profit and for-profit clients on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters, guiding clients in structuring transactions to maximize philanthropic impact and mission-goal achievement.

Karen represents public and private companies, financial institutions, venture capital and corporate venture capital investors, foundations, and charities. Karen describes herself as the “Leslie Knope of M&A” by being “a practical and personable corporate attorney with broad transactional and business experience, an unwavering commitment to clients, and the ability to coordinate effectively with colleagues around the world in providing a dynamic range of services to efficiently drive complex, fast-moving deals, including mergers and acquisitions, to successful completion.”