Katy Spillers handles a broad range of business transactions involving general corporate, tax, and intellectual property matters with an emphasis on counseling clients on formation and tax structuring, growth strategies including debt and equity financings, acquisitions and joint ventures, as well as liquidity events such as asset or stock sales and mergers. 

The clients Katy represents include entrepreneurs, start-up companies and middle market companies in a broad range of industries such as consumer goods, technology, entertainment and sports, real estate and clean tech.

• Represent an independent furniture manufacturing and design firm in connection with initial debt and equity financing, employee and consultant incentive plans and  joint venture agreements
• Represent a start-up technology company in connection with entity formation, partnership, intellectual property and tax issues and venture capital financing transactions
• Represent an online video game company in connection with debt and equity financings, acquisitions, including acquisitions of distressed assets from a UK-based company, as well as all day-to-day general corporate matters
• Represented a major entertainment company in the acquisition of a high-profile $100 million dollar intellectual property portfolio
• Represented a celebrity client in connection with a consumer goods joint venture, including negotiation of joint venture agreements, secured financing agreements and license/endorsement agreements
• Represented a high-profile entertainment executive in connection with a $40 million dollar offering of membership interests to pursue sports and entertainment related investment opportunities
• Represented multiple real estate developer clients in connection with private offerings ranging from $10 million to $40 million to raise funds to acquire industrial and commercial properties, hotels and residential real estate portfolios
• Represented an investment trust focused on alternative energy companies and other clean tech industries, including structuring, negotiating and documents PIPE transactions (private investment in public companies) and numerous investments in venture-stage companies ranging from start-ups to late-round financings; representation also included preparing, filing and managing the trust's U.S. securities filing obligations and coordinating similar international filing obligations

• Listed, Southern California Rising Stars, 2009-2011

• Member, Women's Leadership Council