Colleen Pleasant Kline

Practice Areas

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate & Securities

Antitrust

Corporate Governance

Private Equity

General Counsel Services

Investment Management

Emerging Companies

Career

Colleen is a transactional lawyer who serves as outside general corporate counsel and advisor to middle market clients. She assists her clients in mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, succession planning, venture capital investments and general corporate governance matters. She regularly advises clients on Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filings.

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 and serial entrepreneurs.

Professional Memberships

ACTIVATE® Advisory Board Member (2009–2010)

American Bar Association

Association for Corporate Growth

Baltimore Bar Association, Member of the Business Law Section

Baltimore Junior Association of Commerce, Inc., Legal Counsel (2003–2008)

Greater Baltimore Technology Committee (2002–2006)

Maryland State Bar Association, Chair of the Mid–Market and Small Business Committee of the Business Law Section (2007–2010)

National Association of Women Business Owners, Member (2007–2012)

Women in Business, Center Club (2011–present)

Personal

The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, JD (2001)

Hood College, MBA (1999)

Cornell College, BA, cum laude (1996)