Who We Are

About Me

Summerville Law's owner, Kyle Summerville, was born and raised in Southern Illinois, and after building a career that's taken him through some of the country's top law firms and technology companies, he's proud to now be raising his own family right here in the community that shaped him. Kyle earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before heading to Washington University School of Law in St. Louis and obtaining his bar licenses in Missouri and Illinois.

Kyle's legal career spans nearly a decade of corporate, real estate, estate planning, and commercial law experience:

• Small firm — Edwardsville, Illinois Complex estate planning, business formation, and commercial transactions.
• Armstrong Teasdale LLP Mergers & acquisitions of all sizes, including leading diligence on a $108 million bank holding company acquisition.
• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Complex domestic and international deals, including a $525 million global carve-out transaction spanning five countries.
• Norton Rose Fulbright LLP Helped launch the firm's insurance M&A and compliance practice.
• Zapier, Inc. In-house Legal Counsel for an AI automation company.
• ElevenLabs Commercial Counsel for the leading frontier voice AI company — enterprise deals, data privacy compliance, AI governance, and SaaS agreements for customers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to highly regulated financial institutions.