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Fax: 816.753.1536

Kelly Sullivan-Deady

Shareholder
Kelly Sullivan-Deady is vice chairman of the firm's Corporate Finance and Securities group.  She engages in a variety of corporate representations including securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters with a focus on public securities regulation. She has extensive experience advising clients on a variety of securities law matters including reporting requirements, public and private offerings, proxy solicitations and corporate governance matters. Ms. Sullivan-Deady has assisted public companies in the financial services sector among other industries with periodic reporting requirements, executive compensation structure and disclosures, internal controls as they relate to SOX 404 compliance, and proxy and consent solicitations. She also has experience representing broker-dealers and registered investment advisors with securities law compliance matters, representing acquirers and target companies in merger and acquisition transactions and counseling clients on various complex contractual arrangements including technology licensing and distribution agreements.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Chair, Polsinelli Shughart Recruiting and Hiring Strategic Committee
  • The Missouri Bar
  • Kansas Bar Association
  • Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
  • Literacy Kansas City, Director
  • Association of Women Lawyers
  • Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Leadership Academy, 2004 Graduate

Publications & Presentations

March 2012
Polsinelli Shughart Corporate Finance E-Blast
Author
September 2011
Presented at the Kansas Bar Association, Insurance Law Institute
August 2011
Presented to the Kansas Mortgage Bankers Association
June 2011
Presented at the Polsinelli Shughart Business Law Institute
March 2011
Presented to the ConAgra Foods Legal Department as part of "50 Practice Points in 50 Minutes"
December 7, 2010
Association of Corporate Counsel
50 Practice Points in 50 Minutes
Aug 2009
2009
Association of Corporate Counsel, Kansas City, Omaha and St. Louis Chapters
2008
Association of Corporate Counsel, Kansas City Chapter,
2005
2003
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar
2002