Business and Transactions Department, Private Equity Group

Partner and Co-Leader of Ballard Spahr’s Private Equity Group

Karen C. McConnell is Co-Practice Leader of Ballard Spahr's Private Equity Group and a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. She concentrates her practice in the areas of corporate and securities law, with emphasis on M&A and private equity investment transactions. She has closed more than 400 transactions for buyers and sellers in her career. Karen is a member of the elected Board at Ballard Spahr, and serves on the firm’s Diversity Committee.

Admissions: Arizona

Publications:

Speaker, Insurance in M&A Transactions (February 2019);

Panel Moderator, Conducting Effective Internal Investigations (November 2018);

Presentation Moderator, Applying Business Models to In-House Legal Departments (October 2018);

Speaker and Panelist, Arizona Women in Leadership Symposium (March 2016)

Member of the Board of Trustees,

Chair of the Board Development Committee, Member of the Finance and Investment Committee and the Audit Committee,

Barrow Neurological Foundation

University of Notre Dame Law School (J.D. 1984);

Ohio University (B.B.A. 1981)