Carlos Bermudez
Partner
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Akin Gump corporate partner Carlos M. Bermudez is a recognized leader in his field, regularly leading or playing critical roles in significant corporate transactions on behalf of some of the firm’s largest clients, including Kingston Technology Company, Inc., one of the world’s largest independent manufacturers of memory products, and VCA Inc., the nation’s largest animal care provider.
Specifically, Bermudez has represented Kingston in the $425 million multi-jurisdictional, carve-out sale of its HyperX gaming division to HP. He also advised Kingston Technology in the blockbuster $18 billion sale of Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC), a fully owned subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Toshiba, to K.K. Pangea. Bermudez negotiated a favorable long-term memory supply agreement with TMC and investment documents that protected Kingston Technology’s interests as part of the consortium. He also advised VCA, which was publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Market, in its marquee sale to Mars Corporation for $9.1 billion.
