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Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
United States
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Kate Withers
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Kate H. Withers is a private equity and technology M&A lawyer who advises clients of all sizes in connection with strategic corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, technology-focused joint ventures, private equity, and complex licensing transactions. Ms. Withers works across industries, and has extensive experience advising clients in the financial services, internet, social media, gaming, life sciences, software, and media industries. She focuses her practice on complex corporate transactions that involve the license, sale, and acquisition of innovative technologies and high value intellectual property assets, including artificial intelligence and blockchain technology, data, trademarks, patents, and other technology assets. Ms. Withers has served as outside general counsel to a fintech company developing a mortgage technology platform and provides practice advice grounded in a deep understanding of, and passion for, data, software, and technology businesses. In recent years her clients have included private equity firms and life sciences, internet, and media companies including Vista Equity Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Facebook, Tencent, Bonobos, The National Geographic Society, Allergan, Aptiv, BBVA, and numerous Fortune 100 technology and consumer products companies. She is admitted to practice only in New York and California.
Position
Corporate Partner
Career
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Healthcare > Service providers
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions