Blake Berkey blends his corporate development experience and thoughtful legal approach to successfully guide clients through strategic transactions.
Blake advises private equity sponsors and strategics, ranging from public companies to founder-owned and emerging growth companies, on significant business transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, liquidity events, divestitures, deSPACs and equity financings. He also advises companies on general corporate matters.
Blake has extensive experience advising clients across a variety of industries, including energy (clean, transition and traditional), infrastructure, technology, manufacturing, life sciences, business services and retail. He leverages his past experience as a corporate development manager for a public energy company, where he led efforts to source and negotiate deSPAC and venture investments in energy transition companies, to provide clients with wholistic transactional guidance. He complements this perspective with practical insights from his time as in-house counsel for a Fortune 250 infrastructure services company. His extensive familiarity with every phase of a transaction enables him to serve clients with strategic creativity, negotiating skill and insightful analysis.
Representative Experience
- Represented Quanta Services, Inc. in various acquisitions of private construction, manufacturing and engineering companies.
- Led search process and negotiations for Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II as well as PIPE negotiations and closing process for Nabors Energy Transition Corp., both special purpose acquisition companies sponsored by Nabors Industries Ltd.
- Advised UGI Corporation in separate acquisitions of (i) a private, West Virginia natural gas distribution company, (ii) five natural gas pipeline systems in Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and (iii) its Amerigas Partners, L.P., its master limited partnership.
Education
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J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2016
B.A., Finance, Gordon College, 2011
Admissions
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Texas
Illinois