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Ballard Spahr LLP Offices

Ballard Spahr LLP
1 EAST WASHINGTON STREET
SUITE 2300
PHOENIX, AZ 85004-2555
ARIZONA
United States
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Karen McConnell

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1.602.798.5403 mcconnellk@ballardspahr.com View profile

Work Department

Business and Transactions Department, Private Equity Group

Position

Partner and Co-Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Private Equity Group

Career

Karen C. McConnell is Co-Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Private Equity Group and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. She concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate and securities law, with emphasis on M&A and private equity investment transactions. She has closed more than 400 transactions for buyers and sellers in her career. Karen is a member of the elected Board at Ballard Spahr, and serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee.

Admissions: Arizona

Publications:

Speaker, Insurance in M&A Transactions (February 2019);

Panel Moderator, Conducting Effective Internal Investigations (November 2018);

Presentation Moderator, Applying Business Models to In-House Legal Departments (October 2018);

Speaker and Panelist, Arizona Women in Leadership Symposium (March 2016)

Memberships

Member of the Board of Trustees,

Chair of the Board Development Committee, Member of the Finance and Investment Committee and the Audit Committee,

Barrow Neurological Foundation

Education

University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D. 1984);

Ohio University (B.B.A. 1981)

Lawyer Rankings

United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)

With a strong national footprint, Ballard Spahr LLP demonstrates strength advising buyers and sellers – ranging from privately held companies to multinational public corporations and private equity funds – on middle and lower-middle market M&A. Brian Doerner, who is a key contact for life sciences transactions in the Philadelphia office, and Barbara Rummel in Minneapolis, who has completed numerous transactions involving public and privately held businesses, serve as co-leaders of the firm’s M&A group. Co-head of the private equity practice Maggie Tatton in Minneapolis and Gregory Seltzer, who oversees the emerging companies and venture capital department, are other key contacts. Based in Phoenix, Karen McConnell specializes in corporate and securities law, and has a wealth of experience in both strategic M&A and private equity investments.

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