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Kathi Rawnsley is a Member of the Tech Group and is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lowenstein Sandler's Silicon Valley office, located in Palo Alto, California.She works with entrepreneurs and investors at every stage of the life cycle of start-up companies. Prior to joining the firm, Kathi served as Regional Counsel for the U.S. and Canada for Santa Clara-based Intel Capital, one of the world's most active venture investors. During 2007, Kathi served as Acting General Counsel at Intel Capital, a year in which Intel invested $639 million in 166 deals. Her work at Intel Capital spanned such diverse transactions as Intel’s substantial investments in Clearwire, VMWare, SMART Technologies and a multibillion-dollar joint venture with Micron Technologies in Singapore to small early rounds for consumer internet and SaaS companies. In April 2008, Intel awarded her the Intel Achievement Award, the company's top honor for the highest-performing groups and individuals for her work on the SMART Technologies transaction.
Prior to her nine years at Intel Capital, Kathi worked at a large law firm in Silicon Valley where her practice focused on venture capital, M&A and public offerings.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
National Venture Capital Association
Kathi has been very active in the Venture Community and was the 2008 Co-Chair of the National Venture Capital Association’s Model Legal Documents Project and has continued her participation in and served as an organizer and panelist at the CFO/In-House Counsel track at the NVCA’s 2008 Annual Meeting.
First Growth Venture Network
Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member
Kathi co-founded and handles “operations” for First Growth Venture Network. First Growth Venture Network's mission is to help make great, early stage companies even better. FGVN provides a formal mentoring program and peer group for a jury-selected group (or "vintage") of high potential, seed and early stage start-up tech entrepreneurs. FGVN takes these entrepreneurs and accelerates their "FirstGrowth" by (1) connecting them with successful entrepreneurs and investors, all of whom have spent years in and around tech start-ups; (2) providing regular opportunities for substantive information and networking with the broader First Growth community; and (3) providing a peer group of other high potential tech leadership teams in the First Growth program. The application and, for those admitted, the program are both free (FGVN doesn't ask for money or equity).
Adjunct Professor
Santa Clara University School of Law
In her spare time, Kathi will be teaching “Legal Issues of Start-Up Businesses” at Santa Clara University’s School of Law during the 2011 summer session.
OTHER ACTIVITIES
She is also a longstanding board member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Silicon Valley, participates in many committees locally, and is a member of JDRF’s National Strategic Alliance Committee, helping the Foundation work with for-profit companies.
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Gary Wingens, Kathi Rawnsley and Ed Zimmerman discuss the strategic growth of Lowenstein Sandler's Palo Alto office.,
Daily Journal, June 16, 2011
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In a San Francisco Chronicle article, First Growth Venture Network, founded by Ed Zimmerman, Kathi Rawnsley and Raymond P. Thek, is highlighted for giving the New York venture capital community access to talent, fellow entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and angel investors.,
San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider, July 7, 2010
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The firm's addition of Kathi Rawnsley, Member and co-founder of the Silicon Valley office in Palo Alto, CA, and Brad Arington, Counsel, is highlighted. Both have joined as members of the Tech Group.,
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, August 2008
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Santa Clara University School of Law
(J.D., 1995),
cum laude
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University of Vermont
(B.A., 1988)
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California
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- Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in Silicon Valley, Board Member
- Silicon Valley Walk to Cure Diabetes, Chair
- NVCA Model Legal Documents Annual Meeting, Co-chair
- CFO/In-House Counsel track, NVCA Annual Meeting, Co-organizer
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