General Corporate Counsel

Served as outside general counsel to various companies including manufacturing, e-commerce, service, professional practice and real estate firms.

Represented numerous corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies from formation, financing, operations, and exit strategies through liquidation and dissolution.

Counseled corporate boards, officers and management on day-to-day and strategic business decisions, including advice regarding fiduciary duties, employment matters, leasing, contract review and representation, shareholder rights, and stock option plans.

Banking
Represented banking clients on mergers, branch sales, trust preferred securities transactions, vendor contracts, organization of de novo banks, and related regulatory issues.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Represented buyers and sellers in numerous business transfers, including stock purchases, asset purchases and mergers, such as $50 million bank merger, $35 million acquisition of East Coast nursery company and sale of a $30 million medical transcription business.

Corporate Finance

Represented lenders and borrowers in negotiating bank financing facilities, construction financing, conduit financing and venture capital financing.

MEMBERSHIPS

Sacramento County Bar Association, Member

State Bar of California, Business Law Section, UCC Committee, Appointed Member

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Committee, Member; Leadership Sacramento Advisory Committee, Member

Rotary Club of Sacramento, Member

Los Angeles County Bar Delegate to State Bar Conference of Delegates, Former Delegate

EDUCATION

J.D. Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1996)
Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (B.A., magna cum laude, 1990)

CHARITABLE

Leadership Sacramento, Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, Graduate