Kathleen M. (“Kate”) Shay, a partner at the law firm of Duane Morris LLP, is a corporate, transactional and
finance lawyer who represents both established and emerging businesses in a wide range of transactions
and legal issues, including equity and debt financings, collaboration and corporate partnering transactions,
licenses and other strategic relationships, mergers and acquisitions, governance matters, and executive
employment and compensation issues.
Kate serves on the Boards of Directors of University City Science Center, Life Sciences PA, Penn State
Research Foundation and the Board of Consultors of Villanova Law School, and is a Director Emeritus of the
Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies and a Trustee Emeritus of the Academy of Notre Dame de
Namur. Kate previously served as a director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Association for Corporate
Growth and as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar
Association and is a past-Chair of the Securities Regulation Committee.
Kate received her B.A. from Villanova University and her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, where
she served as Editor-in-Chief of The Villanova Law Review.
