Our People
dave kimelberg
Dave Kimelberg is the Founding Partner of Kimelberg PLLC. He is the former General Counsel for SoftBank Capital and SoftBank Holdings, multi-billion dollar venture capital and investment companies located in Boston and NYC. He is also the former founding CEO of Seneca Holdings, which he led from a start-up concept to a successful group of multiple operating and investment companies in a diverse range of industries.
Dave has been involved in a leadership role in billions of dollars of successful U.S. and foreign company investments, M&A activity, public offerings and complex monetization transactions, including one of the largest debt and collar monetization transactions executed worldwide.
He has served in numerous Board of Director positions including Seneca Solutions, Executive Protection Services, Nexus Technology Solutions, Chairman of the Advisory Board to the Special Trustee for American Indians at the U.S. Department of the Interior (overseeing approximately $5.2 billion in assets) and others.
Dave was previously a corporate attorney with Foley Hoag LLP in Boston and Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft LLP in NYC, where he specialized in representing venture capital and investment groups. He also clerked for a U.S. federal judge. Dave received a JD from Cornell Law School (magna cum laude) and a BBA (finance) from Northeastern University (magna cum laude). He was an editor of the Cornell Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif honor society. Dave is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and has decades of experience in Native economic and community development.
Kaylan Sliney
Kaylan Sliney is a Partner of Kimelberg PLLC. Prior to joining the firm, Kaylan was corporate counsel with WilmerHale LLP in New York City and Brown Rudnick LLP in Boston, where her primary practice consisted of venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings, and corporate reorganizations.
Kaylan stewards early-stage high technology, biopharmaceutical, and software companies in all aspects of formation, financing, and operations through exit, including employment and equity incentive matters, contract negotiation, and licensing.
She also represents middle and late-stage corporate clients in business combinations through strategic merger, asset acquisition, tender offer, and stock purchase structures. Kaylan actively represents large venture capital funds in debt and equity financing transactions, and her experience further extends to investment fund transactions, lending transactions, and complex joint ventures.
She was a member of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at WilmerHale, and chaired both the Associate Liaison Committee (working directly with the firm’s executive management) and the Associate Integration & Development Committee (leading and mentoring first-year and lateral associates) at Brown Rudnick. Kaylan received her JD and MA (international economic policy) from American University, Washington College of Law where she was a member of the Journal of Gender, Social Policy, and the Law, and a practitioner in the Public International Law and Policy Group. She received her BS (international business) from the University of Rhode Island (summa cum laude, President’s Award for the top graduate in the College of Business). In continuing education, she has recently completed a certificate in Leading with Finance from HBX|Harvard Business School, and a Certificate in International Fashion and Luxury Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Business.
Outside of work, Kaylan is an angel investor with Pipeline Angels, a network creating capital for women and non-binary femme social entrepreneurs. She enjoys pursuing new personal challenges in entrepreneurship, apparel design, and athletics (from Tough Mudders, summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro, and completing her first marathon to tackling Everest Base Camp).