San Francisco:
Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Phone+1-415-984-8989
Fax+1-415-984-8701

Shanghai:
Plaza 66, Tower 1, 37th Floor
1266 Nanjing Road West
Shanghai 200040
People's Republic of China
Phone+86-21-2307-7007
Fax+86-21-2307-7300

 


Mergers and Acquisitions China Private Equity and Venture Capital Chinese Company Public Offerings in the United States and Hong Kong Capital Markets Biotechnology Banks and Investment Banks Venture Capital and Emerging Technologies Health Care Private Equity Internet Pharmaceuticals Transactions

Kurt Berney

Partner


Kurt J. Berney is a partner in O’Melveny’s San Francisco and Shanghai offices. He is a member of the Capital Markets and Mergers and Acquisitions Practices. Kurt represents technology, medical equipment/healthcare, new media, consumer and other companies, and the VC/PE funds and investment banks that invest in and provide investment banking services to those companies. Kurt’s diverse practice areas include cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and private debt and equity financings and, leveraging his accounting background and public company governance experience, accounting and other special investigations.

Representative PRC clients include companies such as Acorn International, Giant Interactive, iSoftStone, Mindray Medical, 7 Days Inn and WuXi Pharmatech, and numerous venture capital/private equity and each of the major investment banking firms.

Kurt has been practicing law for over 20 years. Prior to joining O’Melveny, Kurt was a partner with Silicon Valley’s largest technology-focused law firm. Kurt also practiced in the New York and Hong Kong offices of a major Wall Street law firm.

He is a frequent speaker/presenter on cross-border M&A transactions, the global IPO process, international capital markets and financing transactions.

Kurt is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Professional Activities

Member, American Bar Association
Other Activities, Certified Public Accountant

University of Texas, Austin, J.D., 1988: cum laude; Order of the Coif; Texas Law Review, Associate Editor

University of Arizona, Tucson, B.S., Accounting, 1983: with honors; Beta Alpha Psi


New York; California