Bio

Bernardo Piereck represents private equity, private company and public company clients on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, and general corporate and securities matters. His experience includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions involving both strategic and financial buyers, sellers and financial sponsors in inbound and outbound transactions. As part of his private practice, he also has experience in representing public corporations in Securities and Exchange Commission investigations, as well as non-profit organizations on formation, qualification for tax-exempt status and governance practices. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Piereck worked as an economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. In that capacity, he led the technical economic analyses of market power abuses and anomalous market behavior in the California wholesale energy markets and participated in settlement negotiations regarding refunds, penalties, and compliance plans. Mr. Piereck was recently listed as a recommended lawyer for Corporate/M&A and Capital Markets by The Legal 500 Latin America 2019. He is also listed as a ‘Mexico Specialist’ in The Legal 500’s Private Practice Powerlist. In addition, Mr. Piereck is named as a “notable practitioner” for M&A and private equity by IFLR 1000. Prior to joining Dechert, Mr. Piereck worked in the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm where he represented clients in the negotiation and drafting of core and ancillary transaction documentation in relation to the acquisition and divestiture of several public and private target companies.