Member, Business Transactions/Corporate Finance Practice Group

Representative Experience
Public and private equity offerings and complex debt financing arrangements

Counseling on corporate governance and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance

Counseling emerging and established clients in securing capital financing; outside general counsel to mature and emerging businesses

Formation and documentation of private investment limited partnerships, including hedge, private equity, venture and real estate funds

Corporate mergers and acquisitions, including stock and asset transactions, spin-offs and recapitalizations

Prior Law Firm Management Experience
Former president and managing director, Reed McClure, Seattle

Publications and Presentations
Frequent speaker at business and legal seminars on venture capital transactions, corporate governance, business acquisitions, securities law compliance and private investment funds

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association, Securities Committee; Legislative Committee (former member and Chair, 2000-2002); King County Bar Association (former chair, Legislation Committee), President’s Special Award, 1989

Washington Software Association; AeA, Seattle Chapter, Finance Network Committee; MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest; Emerald City Rotary Club

Bellevue Arts Museum, Board of Trustees, Executive Committee, Secretary

Named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Corporate, M&A, and Securities Law by Woodward/White, 2003-2004; 2005-06; 2006; 2007. Named in Corporate Law, 2008

Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2000-2006

Education
J.D., Stanford University School of Law, 1976

B.S. with College Honors in Geology and Oceanography, cum laude, University of Washington, 1970