Representative Experience
Acts as lead counsel in public and private securities placements, mergers and acquisitions, and as general counsel to small- and medium-sized businesses

Works with underwriters and placement agents in public and private securities placements

Works with emerging technology companies

Acts as counsel to 34 Act reporting companies

Representative Clients
Advanced Power Technology (APTI)

Cascade Bancorp (CACB)

Eagle River Investments

Pacific Crest Securities

Publications and Presentations
Northwest Securities Institute

Audit Committee Institute

Pacific Northwest Financial Conference

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association

Oregon State Bar – Securities Regulation Section, Past Chair

Trustee, Presbytery of the Cascades

Board Member, Ethos, Inc.

Named as one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers" by Chambers USA, 2003-2006

Selected to "Oregon Super Lawyers," Law & Politics, 2006, 2007

Prior Experience
Clerked for the Honorable Francis O'Connor, Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Education
J.D., magna cum laude, Harvard School of Law, 1981

B.A. in Economics and Political Science, summa cum laude, Linfield College, 1978