Kathleen Nahill Blanchard

*On secondment to a client.

Kathleen represents both buyers and sellers in transactions across industries including technology, food, financial services, aerospace and defense, healthcare and pharmaceuticals.  Kathleen collaborates with clients to get to know their businesses and understand their strategic goals, and she has experience coordinating and overseeing major projects to achieve those goals.   

Prior to law school, Kathleen worked as a federal lobbyist, advising Fortune 500 companies and trade associations on legislative and regulatory matters.  Kathleen graduated from the Duke University School of Law, where she was a staff editor of Law and Contemporary Problems.  While pursuing her law degree, Kathleen worked as a law clerk for the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Division of Corporation Finance, as well as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Litigation Center and Office of General Counsel.  She earned her B.A. in Government and English from Georgetown University, where she served as Executive Editor of The Hoya.