Karessa Cain
USA Guide 2023
Band 6 : Corporate/M&A
Band 6
About
Provided by Karessa Cain
Practice Areas
Karessa's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate and securities matters. She has worked on a wide range of transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions, spin-offs, takeover defense, shareholder activism and proxy contests, joint ventures and capital market transactions.
Career
Karessa received her B.A. cum laude from Yale College in 2000. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2004, where she was a James Kent Scholar and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Following graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professional Memberships
Karessa is a Fellow of the American College of Governance Counsel and the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the New York and American Bar Associations. She serves on the Corporation Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Personal
Karessa is a member of the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep, a non-profit organization that prepares promising students of color in New York City for success at independent schools, and she was a Fellow in the Partnership for New York City’s David Rockefeller Fellows program.
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