Tatjana Paterno

Tatjana Paterno counsels private equity funds and their portfolio companies, strategic acquirers and multinational publicly traded corporations in the structuring, negotiation and consummation of acquisition transactions. To date, Tatjana has closed more than $22 billion in M&A transactions and more than $25 billion in overall transactions. Her practice focuses on companies within the healthcare and healthcare IT, cybersecurity, manufacturing, food and beverage, entertainment and technology industries, among others. Tatjana frequently advises management, boards and special committees on corporate governance and public company disclosure matters.

Tatjana is co-chair of the 2025, 2023, 2021 and 2019 Private Target Deal Points Studies published by the American Bar Association’s M&A Committee. This study has been widely recognized as the gold standard for market metrics of key negotiated legal issues in M&A agreements.

Tatjana joined Bass, Berry & Sims in 2011.

JD, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law - summa cum laude, Order of the Coif

BA, The University of Texas at Dallas - summa cum laude