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Ropes & Gray LLP Offices
1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
NEW YORK
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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
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
Ropes & Gray LLP handles a large volume of high-value PE-backed transactions in sectors such as tech and life sciences and benefits from a global network of practitioners that enables the team to regularly facilitate cross-border acquisitions. The team is adept at handling deals with unique financing, antitrust, and tax law considerations, and in addition to representing leading funds such as Warburg Pincus and TPG in connection with bulge-bracket platform deals, it also regularly acts on upper middle-market growth capital investments. The New York office is home to practice head David Blittner, who has vast experience advising funds on leveraged buyouts as well as on financing and restructuring matters, and Carolyn Vardi, who regularly leads on some of the firm’s most complex private equity M&A. Also in New York, Kate Withers is noted for her ability to handle transactions in regulated sectors such as healthcare tech, and Garrett Charon specialises in leveraged buyouts and take-privates. Chicago-based Neill Jakobe is a key contact for bulge-bracket buyouts, while San Francisco lawyers Jason Freedman and Minh-Chau Le advise on a diverse caseload of private equity-linked deals.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- 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
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- 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)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- 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
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Government > State attorneys general
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Fintech
- 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
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- 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
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism