Kathleen Medrano

Kathleen Medrano focuses her practice on the corporate implementation of global restructurings, post-acquisition integrations, carve-out transactions, spinoffs, and international expansion projects. She helps multinational companies translate business and tax objectives into coordinated legal steps across jurisdictions. Most recently, Kathleen co-led a global public spinoff transaction from 2025 to 2026.

Kathleen regularly manages complex, multi-jurisdictional implementation projects involving 200+ jurisdictions in a single engagement. She works closely with clients, local counsel, and specialist teams to coordinate transaction documentation, local legal requirements, and implementation timelines, including navigating foreign direct investment filings and corporate registration regimes. Her work includes business and asset transfers, intercompany transactions, and the establishment and ongoing governance of US and foreign subsidiaries, including director and officer slate management. She also advises on general corporate and corporate governance matters.

Kathleen serves as a central coordination point among client legal, tax, treasury, and controllership teams, ensuring alignment across workstreams. Clients value her responsiveness, attention to detail, and ability to provide continuity across multi-phase, multi-jurisdictional engagements.

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Kathleen served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Harris County District Attorney's Office in Houston, where she held such roles as a Senior Felony Prosecutor and Misdemeanor Court Chief. She served as first-chair attorney in more than 20 jury trials.