Meet the Founding Partners

Kari Kelly

Kari is the Head of Legal Services. As a former General Counsel, Kari advises clients on strategic privacy issues and structures a variety of  licensing and complex commercial transactions.  Kari began her career as a Foreign Associate in a premier corporate and intellectual property law firm in Cologne, Germany. Thereafter, she returned to Silicon Valley as an Associate in Mayer Brown’s M&A practice and later served as external general counsel and strategic privacy advisor to high-growth startups including in highly-regulated industries such as AdTech and HealthTech.

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Kari currently lives in The Bay Area, but hails from the mountains of Colorado, which instilled a lifelong passion for hiking and outdoor sports.

Education:

J.D. – Golden Gate University  
B.A. – University of Colorado Boulder

Danielle Simmons

Danielle is the Managing Partner of the firm. Danielle focuses her practice on providing strategic advice to clients and works on a broad range of corporate and transactional matters for companies in all stages of development. Danielle started her legal career in the Los Angeles and New York offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom where she represented private equity funds and companies in the practice areas of M&A, corporate counsel and finance. Prior to law she earned a two-year research training award to conduct behavioral neuroscience research at the National Institutes of Health.

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Danielle is originally from Austin, Texas and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Outside of law, Danielle has a passion for non-profit work, including fundraising and non-profit management.

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Education:

J.D. – Harvard Law School

B.A. – University of Southern California