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MIAMI, FL 33131
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Mr David Birke
Work Department
Corporate, M&A and Private Equity
Position
David Birke serves as co-chair of Akerman’s M&A and Private Equity Practice Group. David’s practice focuses on representing private equity funds, family offices and their portfolio companies in complex acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, restructurings, growth capital investments, and debt and equity financings. David’s wide ranging practice also encompasses representing other private and public companies with corporate governance, joint ventures, executive compensation, and general commercial matters. David brings a unique, pragmatic and solutions-oriented perspective to his client’s transactions; an approach shaped through numerous complex transactions coupled with his experience counseling clients as a certified public accountant at Arthur Andersen.
Prior to joining Akerman, David was a member of the corporate group of an international law firm, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, primarily for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Before practicing law, David was a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen, where he advised clients in the healthcare, waste management, technologies, manufacturing, and hospitality industries.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
Akerman LLP’s Florida-based corporate practice group is geared to handle a broad range of middle-market deals, including buy and sell-side M&A work, domestic IPOs, as well as leveraged recapitalizations and buyouts. In Miami, Jonathan Awner co-heads the practice and has a strong track record in transactional work connected to the automotive retail sector. Also in Miami, Carl Roston‘s practice encompasses the representation of investors and companies in distressed situations and transactions. Fort Lauderdale-based David Birke completes the leadership team and frequently assists private and public companies in matters ranging from executive compensation to corporate governance. Birke’s Fort Lauderdale colleague Martin Burkett is well-versed in acquisitions in the healthcare sector. Kenneth Wiggins, Santiago Assalini and Sergey Kotelnikov are further key contacts in the Miami office: Wiggins’ expertise in corporate mandates encompasses venture and growth capital investments as well as executive employment agreements, Assalini is frequently sought out by private equity and healthcare clients for transactional advice, and Kotelnikov is noted for his experience handling leveraged buyouts.