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Helen Ogbara Reeves

Partner

212 974 6940

Overview

Helen Ogbara Reeves partners with dynamic, emerging companies to help them scale, navigate growth, and achieve their strategic goals. She draws on significant experience across venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and broader operational and strategic business issues. Called upon by clients to act as outside general counsel, Helen’s holistic approach allows her to collaborate with clients seamlessly.

Helen focuses on identifying practical solutions that balance business imperatives with legal risk, whether structuring corporate deals or guiding companies through governance and compliance challenges. She works closely with clients at every stage — from early formation and financing through significant growth milestones and exits.

With deep experience advising companies in sectors such as health care, artificial intelligence, femtech, cannabis, digital media and e-commerce, Helen brings both strategic insight and transactional precision to her practice. She regularly advises clients on their most important needs domestically and internationally. Her collaborative approach and strong understanding of stakeholder interests ensure her clients are well-positioned to move forward confidently at every stage of their journey.

Before she joined Davis+Gilbert, Helen served as a partner at Gunderson Dettmer and Dentons.

Representative Experience

  • Represented a women’s reusable period and incontinence underwear brand in connection with a $25million Series A financing and $25million secondary sale transaction led by a Fortune 500 consumer products company. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a growth stage venture capital fund in connection with its $15million Series A equity investment in an enhanced primary healthcare services company. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a seed stage venture capital fund in connection with its $10million down round and equity recapitalization of a video game company. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a women’s healthcare services platform in connection with its extension of $6.5 Series Seed equity financing. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a cybersecurity and threat intelligence company in connection with its $15million Series A financing transaction. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a seed stage venture fund in connection with its $1.4M Series Seed equity investment into an earnings insight app. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a women’s underwear brand in its strategic sale to a public consumer products company, valuing the company at $230million. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented an online privacy software company in connection with its acqui-hire and asset purchase transaction with a data removal service company. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a student loan relief company in connection with its $10million acquisition of an early-stage AI-powered student loan education platform. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

  • Represented a content management and document distribution platform in connection with its $30million sale to a private equity buyer. (This matter was handled at a previous firm.)

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Credentials

Education

  • Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 2008)
    • Senior Editor, Columbia Law Review
  • Harvard College (A.B., 2005)
Bar Admissions
  • New York

Associations

Member, American Bar Association
— Member, Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee
— Co-chair, Jurisprudence Subcommittee