Bio

Based in Pillsbury’s Silicon Valley office, Corporate and Securities partner Davina Kaile has guided public companies and late-stage private companies across a wide range of sectors, including technology, e-commerce, life sciences, financial services and retail in many high-profile, multimillion-dollar deals. Davina has extensive experience in capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions and tender offers, SPAC transactions, SEC reporting and compliance, and corporate governance and general corporate matters. She represents issuers and underwriters in IPOs and follow-on offerings, shelf, registered direct, and confidentially marketed public offerings and other equity financing transactions, including PIPE, ATM, and equity line transactions, and represents acquirors, acquirees and financial advisors in mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, strategic investments and divestitures, and de-SPAC transactions. Davina also has extensive experience advising on ’33 and ’34 Act reporting and compliance, proxy matters, stock exchange compliance and initiatives, and corporate governance issues, including in connection with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Dodd-Frank Act.