Robyn N. Davis

About

Robyn N. Davis is a Partner in Freeborn’s Corporate Practice Group. Working from her belief that relationships are critical to most aspects of business law, she considers herself a chief relationship manager. Her mission is to help businesses succeed through the thoughtful and thorough management of their internal and intra-organizational relationships and external connections with business partners, investors, client, and relevant sectors of government. 

Robyn excels at guiding her clients through complex negotiations and understands successful outcomes require balancing trust with proper risk allocation. She brings a clarity of vision and attention to detail, always striving for greater efficiencies and satisfaction among all parties. 

A comprehensive business attorney and strategist, Robyn draws on her experiences with two AmLaw 125 firms and nearly twenty-year career as senior legal and general counsel to companies, including several in the Fortune 200, to assist both mature and emerging companies in issues as varied as early-stage corporate counseling and formation, corporate transactions, governance, and operational business law.

For clients early in their development, her goal is to set the stage for successful capital raises and ongoing operational excellence. Her guidance managing fundamental issues of entity selection, equity investment, compensation of critical contributors, and governance has expedited her clients’ efforts to raise capital in the private placement and venture markets.  

A seasoned transactional attorney, she has represented organizations both public and private in M&A, private placement, financing transactions, and divestitures, and managed all the regulatory and ancillary issues flowing therefrom. She has also structured and documented joint ventures and alliances in support of clients’ business and new product development efforts. 

In addition to her solid transactional experience, her clients benefit from her previous experience as an in-house attorney in industries as varied as retail and consumer packaged goods, to heavy manufacturing and technology. As a veteran of several leanly staffed law departments, Robyn has fielded or overseen an extensive variety of legal topics. She is as comfortable negotiating technology transfer and license agreements as she is structuring joint ventures and critiquing consumer-focused advertising and marketing. 

Robyn understands the pressures faced by in-house counsel and is passionate about helping them operate more efficiently. With a deep understanding of how companies work and the different relationships that must be considered and managed in order for a legal department to be a true business partner, Robyn confers with her clients to evaluate their legal and business operations and help them develop tools and procedures that result in faster legal department response times without compromised work product or elevated financial risks.

Outside of work, Robyn enjoys genealogical research, attending live music performances and traveling with her family.