Tatjana Paterno is a corporate and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) partner at Bass, Berry & Sims PLC and represents public and privately held companies and private equity funds in acquisition and disposition transactions. To date, Paterno has closed more than $22 billion in M&A transactions, including a number of transactions where acquisitions targets were public companies.

Paterno has chaired the 2023, 2021, and 2019 Private Target Mergers & Acquisitions Deal Points Studies published by the American Bar Association’s M&A committee, which has been widely recognized as the gold standard for market metrics of key negotiated legal issues in M&A agreements.

Paterno is a frequent speaker on M&A topics and has been quoted and published on M&A matters in local and national media, such as Mergers & Acquisitions magazine, Entrepreneur, Nashville Business Journal, DirectorCorps, ValueWalk, and Toppan Merrill’s Mergermarket.