Rani Doyle is a principal in KPMG’s deal advisory services and leads its governance solutions practice. She has diverse and extensive experience working with executive management and boards at public and private companies on a full range of capital markets, corporate governance, and strategic business matters. Her areas of focus include initial public offering (IPO) readiness; board effectiveness; US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, earnings, and corporate communications; governance policy; compliance and ethics; disclosure controls and procedures; and board and director evaluation.

Doyle counsels organizations and leadership on achieving the alignment of strategy, performance goals, governance, and public disclosures. She works with boards and the C-suite to help ensure they get the right information from the right sources at the right time to make effective and informed business decisions. Doyle helps organizations adopt and maintain custom-fit governance systems that support effective leadership composition and the culture that drives mission and strategy. She also helps organizations achieve disclosure effectiveness across key communications channels, internally and externally, with a focus on SEC and earnings reporting.

Prior to joining KPMG, Doyle was at EY, where she was a member of the Americas IPO leadership team and the Americas COVID-19 response team. She was the EY representative on the corporate governance working groups for the Embankment Project for Inclusive Capitalism and the World Economic Forum’s “Measuring Stakeholder Capitalism—Towards Common Metrics and Consistent Reporting of Sustainable Value Creation” project.

Doyle spent much of her career at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, serving as a partner and co-lead of the business and finance practice in Washington, DC. Before that, she was managing director, co-general counsel, and the functional corporate secretary at Och-Ziff Capital Management, where she helped lead the company’s 2007 IPO, and—among other roles and responsibilities—developed its corporate governance systems at the board and company levels and chaired management’s disclosure committee.

Doyle began her career in 1996 with the SEC in the division of corporation finance’s office of telecommunications and computers and later served as special counsel in the office of international corporation finance. While at the SEC, Doyle worked on several major rule-making initiatives that continue in some force today. She is a recipient of the SEC’s Capital Markets Award.

Doyle is a member of the Association of SEC Alumni as well as a member of the New York and Washington, DC, bars, including the US Supreme Court. She has served as the American Bar Association (ABA) chair for the National Conference of Lawyers and CPAs and chair of the ABA’s subcommittee on securities registration. She is also on the Society for Corporate Governance’s securities law committee and chair of the ABA Business Law Section’s law and accounting committee.