Kirsten A. Harmon

Kirsten Harmon is Counsel in the Firm’s Corporate Department, where she advises clients in capital markets transactions. She represents companies, investment banks and investors in a broad range of public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings, venture financing transactions and debt offerings.

Kirsten’s representative transactions have included:

• IPOs of:
  • Braze, a customer engagement software platform
  • Sotera Health, a global provider of sterilization solutions and lab testing and advisory services for the healthcare industry
  • Frequency Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on regenerative medicine
  • Despegar.com, a leading online travel platform in Latin America
  • Acushnet Holdings Corp., owner of Titleist and FootJoy golf brands
• TensorWave, the emerging leader in AMD-powered AI infrastructure solutions, in raising $100 million in its Series A financing round
• CBRE as lead investor in the Series E financing round of VTS, a leading commercial real estate technology platform
• Gerdau Next Ventures as an investor or lead investor in venture financing rounds of numerous emerging technology companies
• Laborie Medical Technologies Inc., a Patricia Industries portfolio company, as the lead investor in the Series C financing round of Urotronic, a medical device company
• CWT Travel Holdings, Inc. in its private placement of convertible preferred stock
• Underwriters in Semtech’s $661 million upsized secondary offering of common stock
• Underwriters in over $2.2 billion total value of secondary offerings of common stock by Sotera Health Company, and initial purchasers in Sotera Health Company’s $750 million senior secured notes offering
• Teleflex in connection with the proposed sale of its Acute Care and Interventional Urology businesses to Intersurgical Ltd and its OEM business to private equity firms Montagu and Kohlberg for a combined total of $2.03 billion in cash
• EQT Active Core Infrastructure in its acquisition, together with PSP Investments, of Radius Global Infrastructure
• Underwriters in over $35 billion aggregate principal amount of bond offerings by Pfizer, including Pfizer’s $31 billion bond offering and Pfizer’s $1 billion sustainability bond
• NN, Inc. in a private placement of convertible preferred stock and common stock purchase warrants

Kirsten received her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in 2014, where she was a Global Law Scholar. She received her B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Georgetown University in 2009. She is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. Kirsten is admitted to practice in New York and has been a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Emerging Companies and Venture Capital Committee since 2023.