Sankeetha Selvarajah

Serving as the Partner at Romano Law PLLC, Sankeetha has almost 15 years of experience in corporate transactions, employment and mergers & acquisitions.  Sankeetha takes a practical approach as corporate counsel to entrepreneurs, business owners, and domestic and international companies, helping them navigate the legal issues encountered while growing, acquiring and exiting a business.

She helps clients steer through the legal aspects of the various stages of starting, fundraising and exiting ventures.  For her tech and retail clients, Sankeetha regularly advises on the formation and corporate structuring of interstate reorganization, the negotiation of option agreements, investor documents and financing, employment agreements and releases.  She regularly negotiates contracts, and licenses for the Cannabis Control Commission (MA) and license holders.

Sankeetha is a frequent National Speaker, Panelist and Podcast Guest on: Exit Strategy, M&A, Technology, Entrepreneurship, Fundraising and Artificial Intelligence.

She is a regular legal Advisor/Judge/Mentor for the Luminary, Techstars, MassChallenge, MitX, Venture Cafe and Center for Women & Enterprise.

Sankeetha loves exploring new artists, trying new restaurants and reconnecting with old friends.

Honors & Awards:

• Silicon Valley Bank Fellow 2023-24
• J.P. Morgan Chase Luminary Fellow 2022
• Top 100 Attorneys 2020
• American Bar Foundation Fellow 2018 – present
• American Bar Association GP/Solo Division Recipient 2016
• American Bar Association YLD On The Rise Top 40 Under 40 Award 2016
• Top 40 under 40 Boston Rising Stars 2015
• New York State Bar Association Delegate to ABA 2014
• American Bar Association Business Law Fellow 2012-2014

Education

• New England Law School, J.D. (2007)
• University at Buffalo, Joint B.A. Psychology and Political Science  (2003)