Caroline I. Keegan

Associate

Caroline I. Keegan is a Senior Associate in Kurzman Eisenberg’s Corporate, Art Law and Real Estate practices groups. 

Caroline has holistic commercial transactions expertise. She regularly advises clients on a full range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, general corporate compliance, and employment law matters. With a diverse client base spanning from startups to large public corporations, Caroline has extensive experience structuring and negotiating complex transactions to support clients’ strategic growth and operational objectives. Her work in mergers and acquisitions includes representation of both acquirers and sellers in asset, stock and merger transactions. Caroline also guides companies through critical corporate events, including business and non-profit entity formation, maintenance, conversion, dissolution, financings, and strategic joint ventures, and regularly prepares operating agreements, shareholders agreements and other related organizational documents. Caroline helps clients address corporate governance challenges and navigate evolving regulatory frameworks.

With extensive experience in commercial, residential, and mixed-use property deals, Caroline provides strategic counsel to developers, investors, property owners, landlords, tenants, and financial institutions. As part of her Real Estate practice, she assists clients in navigating complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leasing, and development projects.

Caroline also has significant experience in the arts industry, developed through legal and business positions. Her experience in Art Law includes counseling dealers, individual and institutional collectors, galleries, museums, non-profits and artists across a broad spectrum of creative fields including musicians, actors, filmmakers, photographers and fine artists. As part of her Art Law practice, Caroline advises clients on complex matters related to art purchase and sales transactions, intellectual property rights, exhibitions, publication, licensing, lending and consigning. She frequently negotiates purchase and sale agreements, guaranteed bids and consignment agreements with all of the primary auction houses and offers strategic legal guidance on sales and licenses of intellectual property. She has also negotiated settlement agreements concerning intellectual property infringement and title and authenticity disputes.

Caroline is the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the New York non-profit Apropos Housing Opportunities & Management Enterprises, Inc. (A-HOME).

Prior to joining Kurzman Eisenberg, Caroline’s work experience included the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Calder Foundation, and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.