13D Filing: Gardner Lewis Asset Management LP and Kate Spade & Co (KATE)

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EXHIBIT A

JOINT FILING AGREEMENT

In accordance with
Rule 13d-1(k)(1) under the Securities exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the undersigned hereby agree to the joint filing with all
other reporting persons on behalf of each of them of a statement on Schedule 13D (including amendments thereto) with respect to
the Common Stock, par value $1.00 per share, of Kate Spade & Company. and that this Agreement be included as an Exhibit to
such joint filing. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts all of which taken together shall constitute one
and the same instrument.

IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the undersigned hereby execute the Agreement this 6^th day of June, 2017.

Gardner Lewis Asset Management,
L.P.

By: Gardner Lewis Asset Management, Inc., its general
partner

Dated: June 6, 2017                                                           By:
/s/ W. Whitfield Gardner

                                                                                              W.
Whitfield Gardner

                                                                                              Chairman and CEO

Gardner Lewis Asset Management,
Inc.

Dated: June 6, 2017                                                              By:
/s/ W. Whitfield Gardner

                                                                                                W.
Whitfield Gardner

                                                                                                Chairman
and CEO