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Kathleen Swan serves as Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Section. She focuses her practice on venture capital, private equity and institutional private placements. Kathleen has represented clients within a number of diverse industries including health care, retail, technology, insurance, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and utilities operations. She has represented venture capitalists, angel investors, angel groups, institutional investors, start-ups, emerging growth companies, corporate venture funds, investment bankers and equity sponsors in both equity and debt transactions.
Kathleen Swan serves as Co-Chair of Locke Lord’s Venture Capital & Emerging Companies Section. She focuses her practice on venture capital, private equity and institutional private placements. Kathleen has represented clients within a number of diverse industries including health care, retail, technology, insurance, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and utilities operations. She has represented venture capitalists, angel investors, angel groups, institutional investors, start-ups, emerging growth companies, corporate venture funds, investment bankers and equity sponsors in both equity and debt transactions.
Kathleen lectures on entrepreneurship issues at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and participates in the New Venture Challenge, the Global New Venture Challenge and the Social New Venture Challenge. She is a regular speaker for the Clean Energy Trust (Evergreen Climate Innovations), the Florida Venture Forum and the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education as well as various other venture and private equity forums.
CREDENTIALS
- J.D., University of Miami School of Law, 1985
- B.A., Vanderbilt University, 1980
- Illinois
- Fellow, American College of Investment Counsel
- Member, The Economic Club of Chicago (Membership Committee)
- Judge, Global New Venture Challenge, Social New Venture Challenge and New Venture Challenge, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Board of Directors, Florida Venture Capital Forum
- Board of Directors, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
- Advisory Board, I Choose the Ladder
- Member, Institute of Illinois Business Law
- Innovation Committee, American Dental Association
- Impact Engine I and Impact Engine II
- Sponsor, Irish Angels (Investment Group)
- Sponsor, Hyde Park Angels (Investment Group)
- Member, Women's Business Advisory Board to Treasurer of the State of Illinois
- Springboard Midwest (Chairman, Forum Committee and Screening Committee Member)
- Member, Chicago Bar Association
- Illinois Leading Lawyer - Leading Lawyers Network, 2017–present (Corporate Finance, Securities & Venture Finance)
- Illinois Super Lawyers® lists (Business/Corporate)
- Chicago Bar Association David C. Hilliard Award
- National Hemophilia Foundation (Former Member of Board of Directors, Chicago Chapter)
- University of Miami School of Law (Former Member of Young Alumni Visiting Committee)
- Member, University of Texas System’s Entrepreneurship Network Evaluation Committee