National Market Leader, Advisory Services, BDO USA LLP
Karen Baum is a partner and the national market leader, Advisory Services, for BDO. Baum is a trusted senior M&A professional with more than 30 years of experience. She routinely advises senior executives in transaction evaluation and corporate strategy where her experience in commercial litigation is key to helping clients avoid costly post-deal disputes that dilute the value of a transaction. Conducting customized due diligence on behalf of private-equity, strategic, and financial buyers, she has led teams across a broad spectrum of corporate finance engagements that include private placements, primary and secondary public offerings, spin-offs, carve-outs, and post-transaction integrations as well as operational and financial restructurings in both distressed and M&A contexts in the technology, entertainment, media, health care, life sciences, and consumer products industries. Baum has served in various interim C-level executive roles for private-equity backed portfolio companies specializing in acquisition of distressed assets, commercial claims, and novel technologies.