Katayun I. Jaffari, Esq.

Katayun I. Jaffari is a partner in the Business and Finance Department of Ballard Spahr LLP, and a member of four practice groups: Securities, Life Sciences/Technology, Energy and Project Finance, and Mergers and Acquisitions/Private Equity.

Recognized as an emerging leader in the fields of corporate governance and securities, Ms. Jaffari devotes her practice to the handling of complex securities transactions for businesses in the biotechnology, energy, and electronics manufacturing sectors. Advising clients in deals that have reached the multibillion-dollar range, Ms. Jaffari has broad experience in business finance, including public offerings, stock-for-stock mergers, private placement of common stock, and offerings of convertible notes. Her practice includes business counseling, capital raising, and mergers and acquisitions.

In her corporate governance practice, Ms. Jaffari has extensive experience counseling clients on complying with federal laws such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Dodd-Frank Act. She also helps clients develop compliance programs and guides them with respect to their corporate governance responsibilities.

Katayun Jaffari counsels emerging companies from start-up to maturity. Her experience includes counseling companies in partnership transactions, acquisitions, securities offerings, public reporting documents, internal investigations, federal and state governance issues, and exchange listing matters. She has written and lectured extensively in the areas of fiduciary duties, corporate governance, securities law, and entity structure.

Ms. Jaffari represents large public companies in a range of complex securities transactions. She counsels clients in securities law compliance, including reporting requirements under NYSE and NASDAQ regulations. She represents public and private companies in initial public offerings, secondary offerings, and private offerings, including PIPE transactions as well as 144A transactions. She advises companies in a variety of securities matters, including capital-raising transactions.

Ms. Jaffari also counsels clients in complex mergers and acquisitions between private companies and public companies, and has advised buyers and sellers in mergers, asset purchase and sale transactions, and stock purchase and sale transactions.

Prior to joining Ballard Spahr, she was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Moody R. Tidwell, III, at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. She has been an adjunct professor teaching honors pre-law courses at Temple University, Fox School of Business, where she previously served as an full time Instructor.

Ms. Jaffari has been named as one of Philadelphia's "40 Under 40" by Philadelphia Business Journal as well as one of Pennsylvania's "Lawyers on the Fast Track" by the American Lawyer Media. She serves as President of the Board of Directors of, and as a volunteer attorney for, the Support Center for Child Advocates. She also serves as a board member of the Boards of InterAct Theatre Company and Yoga Unites, each of the Boards of which she previously chaired. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Scleroderma Foundation.

Ms. Jaffari's law degree is from George Washington University, where she served as Managing Editor of The George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics. She received her MBA and BBA, summa cum laude, from Temple University.

Ms. Jaffari is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.