Keli Whitlock

represents clients in connection with corporate and securities transactions, focusing on venture capital, public and private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and the representation of emerging growth and middle market companies.

Ms. Whitlock represents a number of leading venture capital firms and angel investors.

In 2005, Ms. Whitlock was named one of the 40 Under 40 outstanding business leaders in Baltimore by the Baltimore Business Journal.

Ms. Whitlock is a 1997 graduate, with honors, of the University of Maryland School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif, and a graduate, with honors, of Goucher College.

Experience

•Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 2006-present
•DLA Piper US LLP
- 1998-2006

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Smart CEO's Leading Lawyers, 2011
•Campaign for Our Children
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Board Memberships

•Dayspring Programs, Inc.
•Biodiesel University
- Advisory Board Member

Publications and Speaking Engagements

Selected Publications

•Quoted, Pre-IPO Talks With Potential Investors Allowed in House Bill, Bloomberg BNA, August 13, 2018

•Co-author, Top Issues Shaping M&A in 2013, ACG Global's Middle Market Growth, June/July 2013
•Co-author, The Table is Set: Ten Trends for M&A in 20121, Mergers & Acquisitions, July 2012
•Co-author, Reading the Tea Leaves: Ten Trends in Mergers and Acquisitions in 2011, Mergers & Acquisitions, July 2011
• Is Venture Capital for You? Techlink, Maryland's Telecommunications and Technology monthly feature in The Daily Record, September 2001

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Panelist, From Formation to Funding: What Keeps Entrepreneurs Up At Night, University of Florida's Innovation Hub, January 26, 2012
•Featured on American Public Radio Marketplace report, Companies Raise Money at a Blistering Pace, April 12, 2011