Bio

Katarina Polozie is a Partner in the firm’s Business and Finance Department. Kate concentrates her practice on mergers & acquisitions, complex commercial transactions, data privacy and cybersecurity, corporate governance and venture capital. Kate counsels a diverse range of successful and growing businesses from local start-up ventures, to multinational corporations, across a spectrum of industries including sports, construction, transportation, manufacturing, telecommunications, food product services, agricultural equipment, distribution, marketing & advertising, human resources, consulting and software. As a member of the Firm's Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures Practice Group, Kate regularly represents clients in mergers; stock purchase, sales, and auctions; asset purchases and divestitures; and joint ventures, which range from representing multinational corporations in transactions for hundreds of millions of dollars to representing local business in much smaller transactions and in their succession planning. As a member of the Firm's Private Equity & Venture Capital Group, Kate counsels both angel and venture capital investors seeking to invest in companies, and the companies seeking such investment. Kate also drafts complex founders' agreements, including limited liability company operating agreements and shareholders' agreements that define the nature of the rights and obligations of the equity holders. Kate represents clients on a wide range of complex commercial agreements including: SAAS agreements, sales representative agreements, distributor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, consulting agreements, and other service agreements. Kate is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) through the ANSI-accredited International Association of Privacy Professionals. She counsels clients on data privacy and cybersecurity issues, including advising clients on their privacy and cybersecurity policies, reviewing data privacy and cybersecurity issues in connection with corporate acquisitions, reviewing and drafting data privacy and security clauses in commercial agreements, and advising clients on how current and future data privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations may affect or require changes to their business models. Kate is a frequent speaker on topics pertaining to business succession, M&A, federal and state privacy laws, crypto currency and NFTs, commercial contracts, venture capital and corporate compliance. Prior to joining Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP, Kate was a partner at Potomac Law Group PLLC in Washington, DC and a Partner at McDermott, Will & Emery in Washington, DC.