Kate Kirby Senior Attorney
Kate is a California attorney who has represented, worked with and worked opposite start-ups, mid-sized entities and publicly traded/listed companies for the past eight years. Kate specializes in negotiating commercial transactions, with particular focus on technology and IT outsourcing for software and services companies, software licensing, strategic partnerships and OEM engagements. Kate advises on and has worked extensively on a variety of other legal matters, including corporate governance, employment and labor-related issues, litigation claims and bankruptcy issues. She has also been engaged in a number of company formations and general “start up” matters.
Kate started her legal career in 2000 at Chase Hambrecht & Quist in San Francisco working on security compliance-related matters. She joined Totality Corporation as Corporate Counsel in late 2000, where she worked on a full spectrum of company issues as sole in-house counsel. Kate managed all of Totality’s legal transactions, negotiating service agreements, in-bound and outbound license agreements, strategic partnerships and reseller agreements with companies that included American Airlines, Sony Corporation, Louis Vuitton and Best Buy, as well as smaller and mid-sized organizations. She was later promoted to Director of Legal Affairs and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Directors. Kate started consulting with Tamara Thompson in early 2005 at which time she also continued to work closely with Totality Corporation and was integral to its negotiations and sale to Verizon.
Kate earned her Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia and her Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) from Denver University. She was admitted to and has been a member of the California Bar since 2000 and the District of Columbia Bar since 2007.
Kate may be contacted via e-mail on and is based in New York City.