K&L Gates Adds New York Partners in Firm's Asset Management and Investment Funds, Corporate Practice Areas

New York - Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Josh Berick as a partner in the corporate practice area, and Jacqueline Duval as a partner in the asset management and investment funds practice area. Both join K&L Gates’ New York office, with Berick arriving from Jones Day, and Duval from Herrick Feinstein LLP, where she was chair of the firm’s family office practice group.

John A. Bicks, managing partner of the firm’s New York office, stated: “We are very pleased that Jacquie and Josh have joined the firm in our New York office. Josh is a great addition to our busy and robust corporate practice, and brings substantial deal experience which he has developed while working on dozens of extremely large and complex transactions. Jacquie’s experience representing family offices, high net worth individuals, and private foundations is a perfect fit with the firm’s existing practice representing sources of private capital with their structuring, tax, transactional, and related needs. Both Jacquie and Josh are terrific additions to our global platform and to our New York office.”

Joining the firm’s corporate M&A practice, Berick advises investment funds, strategic investors, and emerging growth and start-up companies on M&A transactions, growth equity and venture capital investments, and joint ventures, including in the health care, life sciences, technology, infrastructure, and energy industries. He has extensive international experience, having led complex cross-border transactions in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

Among the transactions on which Berick has advised are Solmax’s €435 million acquisition of TenCate Geosynthetics; EagleTree Capital’s $525 million acquisition of Corsair Gaming from Francisco Partners and the subsequent $238 million IPO of Corsair Gaming; Royalty Pharma’s $260 million acquisition of a royalty interest in Eli Lilly & Company’s EMGALITY®; Verizon’s sale of cloud and managed hosting assets to IBM; and GE Healthcare’s strategic partnerships with Roche (to develop an integrated digital diagnostics platform for oncology and critical care treatment) and Preventice Solutions (to develop an ambulatory cardiac arrhythmia monitoring suite).

In welcoming Berick to the firm, Mark McMillan, a leader of K&L Gates’ global corporate practice area, remarked: “Josh brings excellent technical skills, great wisdom and advisory experience, and a constructive and creative nature, and we are excited to have him as part of our collaborative and cross-border practice.”

Duval arrives at K&L Gates with more than 25 years of experience and substantial knowledge regarding the structuring and servicing of family offices and transactional work related to their investments. She provides counsel to both single- and multi-family offices. A tax lawyer by training, her practice also includes domestic and international tax; private equity, hedge funds, venture capital and entrepreneurs; investment funds; and foundations, not-for-profits, and tax-exempts.

Duval has extensive experience with the tax guidelines related to private foundations and other charitable organizations, and in managing the challenges that arise when these entities or related persons are parties to an investment. Duval has a special interest in promoting diversity and equality by supporting and working with women entrepreneurs and investors. She joins the firm’s asset management and investment funds practice area.

“Jacqueline’s years of experience and creativity further enhance the level of service and creative structuring that we can deliver to our sophisticated family office and foundation clients,” said Michael Caccese, K&L Gates Chairman and co-leader of the firm’s asset management and investment funds practice area. “We are excited that Jacqueline is joining us.”

Berick and Duval are among the more than 90 partners and of counsel K&L Gates has welcomed throughout the firm since the beginning of 2020, with several additional hires expected in the New York office during the coming months.

K&L Gates’ corporate practice area is one of the most substantial in the legal industry, with more than 500 lawyers in offices on five continents providing clients with practical legal solutions in the structuring, financing, and completion of domestic, international, and cross-border transactions, as well as in areas such as benefits and ESOPs, emerging growth and venture capital, estate planning and trusts and estates, executive compensation, public companies, tax, and private equity transactions.

The asset management and investment funds practice has 50 years of experience in the financial services industry and comprises more than 150 lawyers in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and South America. These lawyers provide advice to investment companies and advisers, broker-dealers, emerging managers, and institutional investors across a range of areas, including on investment, hedge, private equity, and real estate funds, exchange-traded products, capital markets and derivatives, ERISA, ESG, and global regulation and distribution, among others.