Poonam Kumar is a highly experienced lawyer who advises global clients on a wide variety of cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings, as well as general corporate and commercial law matters. At Minneapolis firm DLA Piper, she leads large, multi-jurisdictional teams to help clients structure, negotiate, implement, and close complex international transactions. Recently, Kumar represented General Electric through the spinoff of its GE HealthCare business and the London Stock Exchange Group in its $325 million cross-border acquisition of TORA, a cloud-based technology provider. Kumar is also the president of Minnesota Women Lawyers and serves on the advisory board for the South Asian Women’s Network MN.