Kayla Klos provides advice on compliance with securities laws including disclosure and reporting requirements, insider trading issues, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance and the requirements of applicable stock exchanges.
Kayla also provides general corporate legal services including assisting with the formation, ownership and management of businesses, contractual matters and corporate governance issues. She represents both public and private companies and has participated as counsel to companies in merger, acquisition and sale transactions, including stock and asset purchases. Her work with public companies includes negotiated and hostile takeovers, tender-offers and going-private transactions. Her practice involves assisting clients with capital raising including the registration of securities offerings, private placements, and venture capital financings.
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- Member, American Bar Association
- Troop Leader, Girl Scouts of Western New York
Honors & Awards
- Legal Elite of Western New York, Buffalo Business First/Buffalo Law Journal, 2018
Publications
- "Getting Creative to Get Results," Buffalo Niagara Partnership blog, April 2, 2018
- "Exercising Your Networking Muscles," Buffalo Niagara Partnership blog, June 1, 2017
- "FAST Act Speeds Access to Capital and Adds Resale Exemption," Buffalo Law Journal, March 2016
- Authored various articles regarding best practices and corporate and securities law issues.
News
Press Releases
- Harter Secrest & Emery Elects Kayla E. Klos Partner, November 16, 2020
- Harter Secrest & Emery Advises VerifyMe, Inc. in $10 Million Public Offering and Uplisting to Nasdaq, June 30, 2020
- Harter Secrest & Emery Helps Maxim Group Close $4.7 Million Offering, April 22, 2020
Presentations
- Speaker, National Investor Relations Institute's "NIRI Virtual Gets "Physical" in Buffalo, New York," April 12, 2016
Admissions
- New York
Education
- Albany Law School, J.D., cum laude
- Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, B.S.