With four decades of experience advising clients on investment matters and legal issues, Kelly Williams focuses his practice on counseling clients, including private equity funds, portfolio companies, financial institutions, and privately held businesses, on structuring and implementing acquisitions, divestitures, and financing transactions, as well as providing strategic business advice to support future growth.
Prior to joining Blank Rome, Kelly managed the successful private equity firm Milestone Capital, Inc., which he founded in 1998. Kelly led the firm’s middle-market private equity team, which included sourcing acquisition targets, fundraising and investor relations, leading financial underwriting and financial and legal due diligence, negotiating and closing transactions, developing business plans, determining and executing on long-term exit strategies, and forming relationships with other private equity groups, investment bankers, lawyers, and business owners. His experience also spans accounting, tax, real estate, bankruptcy, litigation, and employment issues.
Kelly previously practiced law at a regional transactional and tax law firm and founded a small law firm to manage public and private business transactions.
Outside the Firm
Kelly enjoys spending time with his wife and five children. He is also an avid outdoorsman and enjoys golf, running, skiing, and coaching children’s sports.