Kandy L. Williams is an experienced transactional attorney who strategically advises clients on a variety of matters, running the gamut from corporate governance to M&A transactions. Kandy represents clients from a diverse array of industries, including tech, manufacturing, real estate, physician groups and dental groups, venture capital, and private equity. She also acts as outside general counsel to companies handling their day-to-day needs.

Kandy and her team advise clients on a wide variety of matters, including the following:
• Mergers and acquisitions (including transactions with publicly held companies);
• Corporate governance issues and pre-litigation shareholder disputes;
• Employment law matters (including hirings, terminations, and employee handbooks);
• Intellectual property, such as software licensing agreements, development agreements, service agreements, and other technology-related agreements;
• Key contracts, including preparation and negotiation of commercial agreements, distribution agreements, and sales agreements; and
• Partnership agreements, LLC operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, joint venture agreements, executive employment agreements, independent contractor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, vendor/supplier agreements, and various other contracts.

Kandy previously practiced corporate law at two international AmLaw 100 law firms. She is licensed to practice law in California and Tennessee. Kandy graduated cum laude from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she served as Literary Editor of the Pepperdine Law Review and won numerous
moot court competitions, speaking awards, and brief writing awards in both law school and national competitions.

Kandy also served as a Deputy District Attorney with the Orange County District Attorney’s Office Trial Attorney Partnership Program (“TAP”). While participating in TAP, she successfully prosecuted a jury trial and argued numerous preliminary hearings, motions, and other evidentiary matters. Kandy
previously served on the Board of Directors and as the Chair of the Governance Committee for a nonprofit arts day school for adults with developmental disabilities. She was also a member, along with her daughter, in National Charity League, a philanthropy-focused nonprofit organization for mothers and their daughters in grades 7-12.