Annette Becker

Practice Areas

Annette Becker is a co-practice area leader for the firm-wide Corporate practice at K&L Gates of over 500 lawyers. She also co-leads the firm’s Technology Industry Group. She was named a Leading Lawyer by Legal 500 for mid-market M&A and a Leading Lawyer for Business, Corporate/Commercial in Seattle by Chambers USA. Annette also serves on the firm-wide Women in the Profession Committee, is co-chair of the Seattle Women in the Profession Committee and serves on the Seattle office Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Annette’s career has spanned over 30 years practicing corporate law with an emphasis on domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions for clients such as Microsoft Corporation, ePlus inc., and Smartsheet Inc. Annette’s practice includes serial M&A resulting in her development of long-term partnerships with her clients, some spanning more than 20 years. Annette regularly leads large cross-disciplinary deal teams on cross border engagements. Her corporate transactional experience includes joint venture transactions and complex equity financings such as Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar investments in OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT. Annette is a trusted advisor to her company clients and their boards as to corporate governance issues and general corporate matters.

Professional Memberships

Board of Directors, Executive Committee, Chair, Membership Committee, Technology Alliance, January 2016 through present

Board of Directors, ArtsFund, October 2010 through 2016

Board of Directors, The Kline Galland Center and The Kline Galland Foundation, June 2010 through 2016

Investment Committee, Bertschi School, July 2015 through 2019

Liaison to Seattle Chapter, Women Presidents Organization, 2002 through 2016

Women Presidents Organization, Zenith Group, 2016 through present

Board of Directors, New Beginnings, 2005 through 2009

Education