Keith Scherer Bio

Keith leverages his deep experience and technical expertise to help companies and funds achieve their business objectives with a client-focused, practical, and commercial approach. Keith is a Public Offerings/Public Companies partner in Gunderson Dettmer’s Boston office. Advising public companies on corporate and securities topics, including public and private debt and equity financings, strategic transactions, corporate governance and ongoing public reporting and compliance. Counseling founders and late-stage emerging growth companies exploring a possible IPO and preparing companies to go public and for post-IPO matters. Representing venture capital funds on investments in public companies, including private investments in public equity (PIPEs) and registered direct offerings, and advising venture capital funds with respect to their sales and distributions of public company securities and IPOs, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic transactions involving their portfolio companies. Across all his work, Keith brings a practical and problem-solving mindset, leveraging his experience representing public and late-stage private companies and funds in wide variety of ongoing and transactional matters. He fosters long-term relationships with his clients by understanding the broader business objectives beyond the immediate deal and by prioritizing responsiveness throughout the representation. Keith works across nearly all industries and supports efficiency in transactions by bringing industry best practices into every deal. Having represented issuers and investors in PIPE transactions with aggregate proceeds of more than $2.0 billion since 2024, Keith is a leading advisor in the field. Recently, Keith was part of a national coalition of attorneys, investors, issuers and bank placement agents that created a library of model legal documents for PIPE financings. The task force created the model library to establish industry norms and reduce transaction costs and time.