Karen Reyes is a Partner in the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice, focusing on securities offerings and corporate governance matters. She has a multifaceted practice, representing issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors in connection with a broad array of capital markets offerings, including initial public offerings and secondary equity offerings, as well as high yield and investment grade debt offerings.
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Work Highlights
- Underwriters in the IPO of Astera Labs
- Underwriters in the IPO of Dropbox
- Financial advisors in the direct listing by Roblox Corporation, which valued the company at $45 billion and was the largest direct listing ever completed at that time
- Underwriters in several debt and equity offerings by Tesla
- Initial purchasers in several convertible notes offerings by Square
- Underwriters in several common stock offerings by Lucid Group
Education
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Santa Clara University School of Law, 2012 J.D.
Order of the Coif; cum laude
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Santa Clara University, 2009 B.S.
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Based in the Firm’s Palo Alto office, Karen Reyes is a Partner in the Firm’s Capital Markets Practice, focusing on securities offerings and corporate governance matters. She has a multifaceted practice, representing issuers, underwriters and private equity sponsors in connection with a broad array of capital markets offerings, including initial public offerings and secondary equity offerings, as well as high yield and investment grade debt offerings.
Karen has in-depth experience advising on offerings across a wide range of industries, including technology, fintech, healthcare, entertainment, industrials and manufacturing and transportation, among many others.
She has been recognized as a “Rising Star” in Northern California for corporate law by Super Lawyers.
Karen’s experience has included the representation of:
- Underwriters in the IPO of Astera Labs
- Underwriters in the IPO of Dropbox
- Financial advisors in the direct listing by Roblox Corporation, which valued the company at $45 billion and was the largest direct listing ever completed at that time
- ClubCorp Holdings in its IPO
- Underwriters in several debt and equity offerings by Tesla
- Initial purchasers in several convertible notes offerings by Square
- Underwriters in an equity offering by Facebook
- Underwriters in several senior notes offerings by Micron Technology
- Underwriters in several common stock offerings by Lucid Group
- Underwriters in several senior notes offerings by Broadcom
- Allakos in equity offerings and in securities and corporate governance matters
- Seagate Technology in a senior notes offering
- SS&C Technologies in a senior notes offering
- Hub International in several offerings of senior notes
- Underwriters in an equity offering by Lions Gate Entertainment
- Underwriters in an equity offering by Fox Factory Holding Corporation
- Green Visor Financial Technology Acquisition Corp. I in its $200.1 million SPAC IPO
- Initial purchasers in connection with Roblox Corporation’s offering of $1 billion aggregate principal amount of .875% Senior Notes due 2030
- Snap One Holdings Corporation in its $249.3 million initial public offering
Karen received her J.D. from Santa Clara University in 2012, cum laude, Order of the Coif. She also received her B.S. from Santa Clara University in 2009. She is admitted to practice in California.