Colleen Pleasant Kline is a firm Principal and Co-Chair of the firm's Corporate and Securities Practice. Colleen acts as outside general corporate counsel and trusted advisor to clients ranging from business owners and entrepreneurs as well as their officers, directors and shareholders for entities of all sizes covering a broad range of legal and business issues. Colleen’s comprehensive corporate experience is anchored in a solid transactional practice including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and private placements and encompasses the more complex issues surrounding angel investment, venture capital financings and leveraged recapitalizations. Her diverse client base includes privately held companies, portfolio companies, private equity firms, American subsidiaries of foreign owned entities and public companies, government contractors, manufacturers, distributors and real estate entities. Colleen’s holistic approach is focused on providing practical legal solutions to the issues that companies face day to day, in a manner that allows them to be solidly poised and supported for growth.