LaVelle S. King represents private equity sponsors, strategic buyers and sellers, and venture capital investors in structuring and negotiating multifaceted and complicated mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate venture investments, divestitures, and majority and minority investments. Her clients range from emerging businesses to Fortune 500 companies and span multiple industry sectors, including life sciences, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing.
LaVelle boasts a robust pro bono practice, with a particular focus on counseling small nonprofit organizations on corporate governance and other contractual matters. While in law school, LaVelle interned in the general counsel’s office of a local organ donor and procurement program. During the internship, she led the research and provided analyses and recommended steps related to ethical issues around organ and tissue procurement. She also served as a student law counselor for the Health Law Clinic where she assisted with the representation of clients seeking Social Security disability benefits and certificates of medical necessity. LaVelle also served as the treasurer of the Black Law Student Association and was an Office of Admissions Ambassador.
Prior to attaining her J.D., LaVelle worked as a hospital administrator for two of the Philadelphia region’s academic medical centers, whereat she served as a risk manager and performance improvement manager.
The National Black Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 (2022)