Ammara H. Khan

Ammara Khan pairs a sharp commercial mindset with a pragmatic approach, helping clients navigate complex challenges and seize new opportunities. She is deeply invested in their long-term success, channeling her experience and energy into delivering creative, efficient solutions that align with both immediate needs and broader strategic goals.

She focuses her practice on a variety of corporate law matters, assisting businesses with legal entity formation, raising capital—including private equity, venture capital and debt/financing—and various restructurings, redemptions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate lending, qualified opportunity zone funds, joint ventures and related matters.

Ammara leads M&A deal teams of five to 10 professionals, managing multiple transactions valued between $10 million and $450 million in the commercial lending, leveraged buyout, M&A and venture capital space. In 2025, she was named a “Notable M&A Dealmaker” by Crain's Chicago Business. Serving as general counsel for many of her clients, she also drafts and negotiates service contracts, buy-sell agreements, and distribution agreements, and advises on incentive plans to attract key management, among other matters.

A particular area of Ammara’s practice involves how businesses use and interact with artificial intelligence (AI). Holding a certificate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Generative AI for Digital Transformation, she has helped clients with internal policies and operations relating to generative AI, machine learning and other data-related practices. Ammara has also helped clients review and negotiate agreements with various AI companies and other software providers that use and develop various aspects of AI, including internal LLMs and other data-related projects.

Ammara also maintains involvement in the clean energy sector, advising both financing parties and operating entities in the clean energy, environmental, and social consciousness industries on matters such as waste heat recapture and solar energy, and she brings similar strategic guidance to various technology companies.

Beyond her client work, Ammara is co-chair of the Chicago Bar Association’s Financial and Emerging Technology Committee, curating programming on cutting-edge legal issues. She serves on Gould & Ratner’s AI Task Force Committee and is a member of Asian American Women Advancing AI, where she promotes diversity and innovation in the evolving tech law space.