Ms. Katz practices in the areas of securities, mergers and acquisitions, finance and general corporate matters, focusing on providing day-to-day client support and coordination of governance issues, transactional needs and specialty counsel. She advises private and public companies in connection with raising capital and issuing securities, compliance with corporate and securities laws and corporate governance practices, debt financing, and negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of corporate and commercial transactions. Ms. Katz has significant leadership experience in coordination, negotiation and documentation of equity and debt financings for early stage and mature private companies; private and public company mergers, asset acquisitions, stock purchases, and tender offers; PIPEs and public offerings (including IPOs and shelf offerings), representing issuers, placement agents and underwriters; preparing filings for and negotiating with the SEC, FINRA and national securities exchanges; and assisting publicly traded companies with periodic reporting requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and going private/going dark.