About Shakera

You deserve a lawyer who can assist where you are as well as where you are going.

Shakera Thompson is a former Wall Street lawyer turned entrepreneur and the founder of TKA Law Firm, a business transactions and intellectual property law firm helping established businesses take proactive measures to protect their businesses and intellectual assets.

Experience

At TKA Law Firm, Shakera assists companies with various business transactions and intellectual property matters including (but not limited to):

• Fractional general counsel, assisting with day-to-day legal matters
• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts and agreements

– Venture financing and other investment documents
– Merger and acquisition documents
– Day-to-day business contracts and commercial agreements

• Strategic counseling for structuring, negotiating and executing business transactions

– Venture financing and other investments
– Mergers and acquisitions

• Intellectual property protection

– Trademark
– Copyright
– Trade secrets

• Organizational governance, compliance, and disclosure

As a former Wall Street “big law” corporate associate, Shakera practiced for several years representing a wide variety of major businesses. As a result, she is skilled at ensuring that businesses with a lot to lose and even more to gain are protected. Shakera’s prior experience includes representing:

• The Walt Disney Company in connection with its $10.6 billion sale of 21 Regional Sports Networks and Fox College Sports to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.;
• Pitney Bowes Inc. in connection with the $700 million sale of its Software Solutions business to Syncsort;
• Dataxu, Inc. in connection with its $150 million sale to Roku, Inc.;
• WeWork Companies Inc. in connection with its purchase of Prolific Interactive LLC; and
• Several technology and life sciences startups and venture capital firms in preferred stock financings and general corporate matters.