Kristin A. Ornstein

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Kristin A. Ornstein represents private equity sponsors, institutional investors, asset managers, and established businesses in connection with advanced fund formations and sophisticated mergers and acquisitions transactions in healthcare and other highly regulated industries.

Clients turn to Kristin when they need responsive, solution-focused counsel who understands the operational complexities associated with both domestic and cross-border fund formations and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Kristin’s corporate background and post-graduate business education make her an asset in all deal phases, from financial diligence through post-closing integration. Her practical, hands-on, and enthusiastic approach facilitates efficient transactions for her clients while adding value at every opportunity.

Kristin’s private funds and M&A practice spans nearly every phase of a client’s lifecycle:

    • Fund structuring and formation, including co-investments, feeder funds and FoF, secondaries, carried interest arrangements, and principal incentivization
    • Raising capital, including preparing private placement memorandums, subscription materials, and securities filings
    • Portfolio transactions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and restructurings, roll-ups, spin-offs, asset and equity transactions, and mergers
    • Ongoing fund and portfolio company management, operation, and governance

Excelling in the middle and upper-middle markets, Kristin regularly speaks at industry conferences and has been consistently recognized by peer organizations as a leading practitioner in private funds and M&A. Her robust industry experience includes:

    • Healthcare and physician practices
    • Life sciences, biotech, and medtech
    • SaaS
    • Real estate
    • Infrastructure and manufacturing
    • Consumer packaged goods
    • Telecommunications
    • Infrastructure and manufacturing
    • Insurance brokerages
    • E-commerce
    • Community management associations
    • Professional services
    • Emerging technologies
    • …and more
    • University of Houston Law Center, J.D., with honors, 2017
    • University of Houston C.T. Bauer College of Business, M.B.A., 2017
    • University of Colorado Denver, B.A., 2014
  • Bar Admissions

    • Colorado
    • Texas
    • Named to Best Lawyers “Ones to Watch” list for Corporate Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law, 2025

    • Named a Texas Super Lawyers “Rising Star,” 2024

    • Alpha Phi Sigma Honor Society, University of Colorado Denver

    • Dean's List, University of Colorado Denver

    • Wharton Online, Private Equity Certification, 2024

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