Keith W. McBride is a Principal in the firm's Real Estate and Business Law Department. Keith has more than 35 years of experience in handling general business and corporate finance matters. His clients include Fortune 500 companies involved in the communications, financial services, manufacturing, defense, computer and food service industries. He has represented both investors and issuers in start-up and venture capital transactions. Keith also has represented buyers, sellers, lenders and financing institutions in a broad range of investment and acquisition matters, including loans and divestiture transactions. He has acted as lead attorney and negotiator in transactions involving the financing and operation of businesses nationwide.

Keith is also experienced in licensing and franchising matters and has represented both licensors and licensees in the negotiation and administration of contracts for service and product franchises, including co-branding programs.

Prior to entering private practice, Keith was a staff counsel with California's Department of Corporations. In this capacity, he reviewed corporate securities offerings and venture capital proposals from start-up entities through major public offerings. Keith has long placed great importance on giving back to both nonprofit and civic organizations, including serving as a member of the Rotary Club of East Sacramento (2006 Group Study Exchange Team Leader to Germany), and the Board of Trustees of BloodSource (the Sacramento based blood bank).  He is a member of the Business Law Sections of the California and American Bar Associations. He also belongs to the Sacramento County Bar Association's Business Law Section. He provides legal services on a pro bono publico basis to a variety of community charities, including the Wellspring Women's Center and the Samaritan Counseling Center.

Keith is a frequent author of articles and speaker on legal developments affecting business.  He has also been a contributing editor to the University of California Continuing Education of the Bar program for more than 25 years. In recent years, he has also been the co-author of Organizing Corporations In California (3d Ed.), California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB), and since 1983 has written a column on state securities law matters for CEB's Business Law Reporter.

Keith received his B.A. in Mathematics and his M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis. He received his J.D. from the University of California, Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Law in 1973.