Keli Whitlock
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
111 South Calvert Street, Suite 2000
Baltimore, MD 21202-6114
USA
Phone: +1 410 949 2912
Fax: +1 410 949 2952
Email: KWhitlock@duanemorris.com

Keli Whitlock represents clients in connection with corporate and securities transactions, focusing on venture capital, public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and the representation of emerging growth and middle market companies.

Ms. Whitlock represents a number of leading venture capital firms and angel investors.

In 2005, Ms. Whitlock was named one of the "40 Under 40" outstanding business leaders in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Ms. Whitlock is a 1997 graduate, with honors, of the University of Maryland School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and a graduate, with honors, of Goucher College.

Areas of Practice

• Corporate Law
• Securities Law
• Venture Capital/Private Equity
• Mergers and Acquisitions

Representative Matters

Representative Venture Capital and Private Equity Firms

• ABS Capital Partners
• Anthem Capital
• Boulder Ventures
• Core Capital Partners
• Grotech Partners
• JMI Equity Partners
• Novak Biddle Venture Partners
• Sterling Partners
• Samuel James, Ltd.

Representative Companies

• Active Day, Inc.
• Fidelity Engineering Corporation
• Infinity Business Group
• Pay Rent, Build Credit
• Silverthorn Biodiesel
• Wayfarer Nurseries
• Zylaya Corporation

Pro Bono Work

• Dayspring Programs, Inc.
• Campaign for our Children, Inc.
• Biodiesel University

Representative Transactions

• Represented a Virginia IT staffing and consulting company in connection with a two-step transaction involving a corporate restructuring in which the company contributed substantial amounts of its assets and liabilities to a Delaware limited liability company, which simultaneously sold its preferred units to a third party investor for $20 million.
• Represented investors in connection with the private placement of $500 million of preference shares in Michael Kors Holdings Limited with institutional investors.
• Represented an investment adviser in a complex financing of Groupon. Closed on $500 million of a $950 million offering of new series G preferred stock.
• Purchase of Housecall Medical Services by Allied Capital Corporation
• Sale of Housecall Medical Resources, Inc. to Amedisys, Inc.
• Purchase by Active Day, Inc. of the Adult Day Care division of Almost Family, Inc.
• Sale of $35 million of preferred stock by NexTone Communications, Inc.

Professional Activities

• Maryland State Bar Association
• American Bar Association
  - Business Law Section
• Mid-Atlantic Venture Association
• Greater Baltimore Technology Council
• Chesapeake Innovation Center
• Early Stage East

Admissions

• Maryland

Education

• University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1997
  Order of the Coif
• Goucher College, B.A., with distinction, 1993
  - honors in English Literature

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Partner, 2006-present
• DLA Piper US LLP
  - 1998-2006

Board Memberships

• Dayspring Programs, Inc.
• Biodiesel University
  - Advisory Board Member

Honors and Awards

• Listed in Smart CEO's Leading Lawyers, 2011
• Campaign for Our Children

Selected Publications

• Co-author, "Top Issues Shaping M&A in 2013," ACG Global's Middle Market Growth, June/July 2013
• Co-author, "The Table is Set: Ten Trends for M&A in 2012," Mergers and Acquisitions Magazine, July 2012
• Co-author, "Reading the Tea Leaves: Ten Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions in 2011," Mergers & Acquisitions, July 2011
• "Is Venture Capital for You?" Techlink, Maryland's Telecommunications and Technology monthly feature in The Daily Record, September 2001

Selected Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, "From Formation to Funding: What Keeps Entrepreneurs Up At Night," University of Florida’s Innovation Hub, January 26, 2012
• Featured on American Public Radio Marketplace report, "Companies Raise Money at a Blistering Pace", April 12, 2011