Kristin M. Yemm
Kristin M. Yemm
Kristin M. Yemm
Biography
Kristin Yemm is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Finance Transactions Department and focuses her practice on complex business transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, joint ventures and investments. She regularly represents public and private companies, private equity funds and family offices in these transactions across a broad range of industries and sectors, including health care, retail, telecommunications, technology, consumer goods and manufacturing. Her practice also includes counseling with respect to other strategic transactions and corporate governance and commercial matters.
Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Kristin was an associate with another law firm in New York, New York.
Civic Involvement & Honors
- Best Lawyers, Lawyer of the Year 2026: Corporate Law - St. Louis
- The Legal 500 United States 2025: M&A: middle-market (SUB-$500M)
- The Legal 500 United States 2023: M&A: middle-market (SUB-$500M)
- The Legal 500 United States 2018: M&A: middle-market (SUB-$500M)
Admissions
-
Missouri, 2011
-
New York, 2009
Education
Columbia University, J.D., Hamilton Fellow, James Kent Scholar, 2008
University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., summa cum laude, 2005
Related Capabilities
-
M&A & Corporate Finance
-
Energy Transition
-
Corporate
-
Finance
-
Financial Institutions
-
Funds Finance
-
Workouts & Financial Restructuring
-
Wealth Management
-
Subchapter S
-
Going Private
-
Community Banking Litigation
-
De Novo Banking
-
Private Equity
-
Strategic Alternatives & Corporate Reorganization
-
Financial Services Corporate & Regulatory Team
-
Healthcare & Life Sciences
-
AdTech
-
PropTech
Experience
Selected representations include:
- Publicly-traded consumer goods company in spin-off of significant business segment as an independent public company.
- Publicly-traded Fortune 100 health care company in parallel divestitures of three significant business units.
- Publicly-traded Fortune 1000 financial services company in acquisition of publicly-traded investment banking firm.
- Publicly-traded bank holding company in conversion/exchange of trust preferred securities, as well as SEC reporting and corporate governance matters.
- Publicly-traded company in response to activist investor, and related SEC and corporate governance matters.
- Founder of 200+ location retail business in sale to private equity buyer.
- Fortune 500 agricultural/biotechnology company in multiple acquisitions of privately-held technology companies, including cross-border transactions.
- Publicly-traded engineered products supplier in the sale of utility networking and communications business.
- Privately-held company in acquisition of software development company and related software and intellectual property.
Related Insights
Aug 21, 2025
Apr 01, 2025
Jun 08, 2023
Mar 25, 2020