Katharine is an experienced corporate and securities attorney with fifteen years of experience representing startups and their founders, investors, and management teams in the consumer internet, software, telecommunications, life sciences & medical devices, fintech, food & beverage, cannabis, and entertainment technology sectors.
She has represented clients in venture financing transactions raising over $700 million in investment capital in aggregate and M&A transactions representing over $35 billion in enterprise value. She has significant recent experience representing both issuers and investors in cross-border financing transactions – particularly those involving entities operating or formed in Latin America and/or organized under Cayman law.
Prior to founding Alexander Venture Law, Katharine began her legal career as a corporate associate in the San Francisco headquarters office of Morrison & Foerster, LLP, where she she split her time equally across startup/venture capital, public company, and M&A transactional work. She then moved to the Silicon Valley office of Gunderson Dettmer, LLP, in order to focus on emerging company and venture capital, and has focused her practice on emerging companies and venture capital since 2016.
Katharine received her J.D. from UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) in 2011, where she was elected to serve on the Editorial Board of the California Law Review by peer vote, and won the Prosser Prize in Corporate Governance by nomination of her professors. She received her B.A. in History from Grinnell College in 2007, where she was on the Dean’s for five semesters, and upon graduation was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received the Phi Beta Kappa Scholar’s Award for her original research and writing on the Supreme Court under Chief Justice John Marshall.