Kaitlin Kines
Throughout her career, Kaitlin has worked with clients of all sizes, from startups to established companies and the world’s largest private equity funds. She represents emerging companies from formation through capital fundraising and ultimate exit and provides counsel to C-suites and boards of directors in high-stakes scenarios, ranging from crisis financing down-rounds to corporate governance deadlocks. She also represents private equity funds, venture funds, and strategics in secondary transactions, minority follow-on investments, and strategic combinations. She advises privately held companies, co-investors, and founders across a variety of industries, from gaming and artificial intelligence (AI) to education, on strategic collaborations and joint venture-style arrangements.
Kaitlin regularly serves as outside corporate counsel to portfolio companies and management teams, providing practical guidance on transactional and business matters. Her experience includes representing clients in buyouts, financings, strategic ventures, and complex corporate transactions designed to support expansion, investment, and long-term value creation.
Kaitlin's practice combines transaction execution with strategic counseling, helping clients evaluate opportunities, manage risk, and achieve commercial goals in dynamic markets.
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Experience
Representative Matters
- Representing emerging companies from formation through their first SAFE or series financing rounds, navigating both friends and family as well as strategic/VC-style investors, and ultimately through exit (including several unicorns)
- Advising a multinational internet technology company in commercial arrangements for deploying enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) products with super-scalers
- Representing Olympic and national sports teams in strategic transactions and licensing arrangements with private equity sponsors with respect to revenue share
- Represented a private equity fund in its majority investment in a national sports team and related incentive equity arrangements
- Represented a leading real estate fund in its acquisition of a surf retreat and related wave-system technology
- Represented a leading private equity sponsor in structuring the governance of a strategic joint venture managing a $10 billion portfolio
- Represented a private equity firm in the $1 billion cross-border acquisition of a leading intelligence platform
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Credentials
Education
- J.D. Georgetown University Law Center 2017
- Executive editor, Georgetown Law Journal
- B.A. magna cum laude Franklin & Marshall College 2013
- Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
- California
- New York
Professional Memberships and Activities
- Board member, Public Law Center
- Panelist, LA Tech Week, “From Survive to Thrive,” Santa Monica, CA, October 13, 2026
- Judge, Octane High Tech Awards, Best Emerging Disruptor and Best Consumer Tech Categories, Orange County, CA
- Co-chair, Orange County, Women Attorneys at Venable (WAVe)
Recognition
- Super Lawyers, Southern California Rising Star, 2023 – 2026
- Association for Corporate Growth Los Angeles, ACG Rising Star, 2023
Community
Pro Bono
- Supports access to legal services through leadership involvement with the Public Law Center