Colleen Pleasant Kline serves as outside general corporate counsel and advisor to clients ranging from business owners to entrepreneurs, including their officers, directors, and shareholders, for entities of all sizes covering a broad range of legal and business issues.Ms. Pleasant Kline’s corporate experience includes mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and private placements and encompasses the more complex issues surrounding angel investment, venture capital financings, and leveraged recapitalizations. Her diverse client base includes privately held companies, portfolio companies, private equity firms, American subsidiaries of foreign owned entities and public companies, government contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and real estate entities.
Lawyer Profile
Colleen Pleasant Kline
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Recognized Since:2020
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Recognized in:Venture Capital Law
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Law School:Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America
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Location:100 South Charles Street, Suite 1600Baltimore, MD 21201
Colleen Pleasant Kline serves as outside general corporate counsel and advisor to clients ranging from business owners to entrepreneurs, including their officers, directors, and shareholders, for entities of all sizes covering a broad range of legal and business issues.Ms. Pleasant Kline’s corporate experience includes mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and private placements and encompasses the more complex issues surrounding angel investment, venture capital financings, and leveraged recapitalizations. Her diverse client base includes privately held companies, portfolio companies, private equity firms, American subsidiaries of foreign owned entities and public companies, government contractors, manufacturers, distributors, and real estate entities.
Lawyer Bio
Education:
- Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, JD, graduated 2001
- Hood College, MBA, graduated 1999
- Cornell University, BA, graduated 1996
Affiliations:
- ACTIVATE® (2009-2010) - Advisory Board Member
- altimore Junior Association of Commerce, Inc. (2003-2008) - Legal Counsel
- American Bar Association - Member
- Association for Corporate Growth - Member
- Baltimore Bar Association, Business Law Section - Member
- Greater Baltimore Technology Committee (2002-2006) - Member
- Maryland State Bar Association - Chair of the Mid-Market and Small Business Committee of the Business Law Section (2007-2010)
- National Association of Women Business Owners (2007-2012) - Member
- Women in Business, Center Club (2011-present) - Member
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for work in:
- Venture Capital Law
Awards:
- The Daily Record: Named an Honoree for Leadership in Law (2019)
- MyCity4HER: Honored with Spirited Woman in Balance Award, honoring those who pay it forward and help others (2017)
- SmartCEO Baltimore: Named winner of BRAVA Award, honoring exemplary female leaders (2017)
- Maryland Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars - Business/Corporate (2013-2014)
- The Daily Record: Named one of Maryland's Top 100 Women (2013)
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Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
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