Kathleen Hart is a partner in the Corporate & Business Transactions Group of Andersen, Tate & Carr with extensive experience serving as outside general counsel for middle-market companies and a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property and technology matters. She has represented both buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisition and private equity investment transactions ranging from $500,000 to $150,000,000. In addition to her robust M&A practice, her “day-to-day” practice focuses on counseling and assisting start up and growth stage technology companies on a variety of issues, including protecting and preserving their intellectual property rights (both internally vis-à-vis employees and externally in their customer, vendor and partner relationships), securing trademark and copyright registrations, negotiating technology licenses and service agreements, human capital management and general corporate governance matters.
Kathleen has negotiated agreements with many of the top financial institutions and Fortune 100 companies in the U.S., several of the major ISPs in North America and Europe and various technology companies and has assisted clients in expanding into the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada and Brazil, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Before joining the firm, Kathleen served as a law clerk for the Honorable J.L. Edmondson, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. She received her Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2006.
Kathleen is a proud “Double-Dawg” and lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and two teenagers. When she isn’t working or spending time with family, she can usually be found at church, a football field, track or cheer competition.
EDUCATION
University of Georgia School of Law – J.D., summa cum laude, May 2006
- Member, Order of the Coif
- Law School Association Scholarship
- Georgia Law Review, Executive Articles Editor 2005-2006
- Teaching Assistant
University of Georgia - B.B.A. (Real Estate, International Business), summa cum laude, with honors, May 2000
- Ramsey Charter Scholar
- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Fraternity
ADMISSIONS
- Georgia, 2006
Community & Professional
- State Bar of Georgia, Member
- American Bar Association, Member
- ABA Forum on Franchising, Member
- Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce- Technology Council, Member
- Athens Area Chamber of Commerce, Member
- J.M. Tull-Gwinnett Family YMCA, Board Member
Rick Stauffer, COO Possible Now
“Kathleen does a terrific job for us and we are pleased to have her as an integral part of our legal team.
We are primarily a Software-as-a-Service company, but we also have significant Professional Services and Consulting businesses as well. The legal structures surrounding Software-as-a-Service offerings are still in flux, and, even though we are typically dealing with large Fortune 1000 companies, we find that our customers’ legal teams often struggle with Software-as-a-Service concepts, trying to fit them in a “packaged” software mold. We are continuously having to negotiate and resolve complex issues of liability, warranty, indemnification, and IP ownership. Kathleen brings extensive expertise on these topics and is a skilled front-line negotiator. We rely on her heavily in our biggest, most important deal negotiations.
Kathleen has also done a great job understanding our specific businesses and the nuances of our various positions. She is a trusted advisor on all of our general legal issues. And, she is extremely responsive. She will work with us in responding to tight negotiation deadlines and never lets us down.
We are very fortunate to have her as a member of our team. “
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