Kelly Boyd is Of Counsel in Foley’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Business Law Department and Transactions Practice Group. After more than a decade in business roles, she returned to private practice with a practical, operator’s perspective that informs her corporate, securities, and M&A work. She advises companies on corporate governance, venture financings, capital markets transactions, and buy- and sell-side M&A, with experience across the full corporate life cycle; from pre-incorporation planning and formation through IPOs and other liquidity events. Kelly works with clients ranging from single‑founder startups to companies valued at over $1 billion, spanning a broad range of industries. After graduating from the University of Chicago Law School, she began her career at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati during the dot‑com boom and has had a front‑row seat to the evolution of technology in the San Francisco Bay Area. Kelly’s clients most often comment on how much she cares about them and wants to help them fulfil their dreams.