Representative Experience
Representing both established and start-up business ventures in corporate stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, including cross-border transactions involving entities from France, Canada, Panama, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Thailand and Korea

Negotiate and draft corporation and limited liability company formation packages, including corporate bylaws and LLC operating agreements, complex purchase and sales packages for businesses, including security agreements, asset or stock purchase and sales agreements, promissory notes, leases, and other general commercial agreements

Prior Experience
Legal Clerk, General Electric International Law and Policy, Washington, D.C.

Judicial Clerk, The Honorable Cleo E. Powell, 12th Judicial Circuit of Virginia

Summer Associate, ScP Boineau – Soyer & Associés, Paris, France

Principal bassist, U.S. Army Band and sideman for various national music acts in the U.S. and overseas

Publications and Presentations
Author, chapter on foreign corporation registration to conduct business in Oregon, Doing Business in Oregon, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., 2006

Co-Author, “The SEC is on the hunt for sleepy corporate watchdogs,” DWT News Brief, September 12, 2003

Memberships and Activities
Oregon State Bar

Multnomah Bar Association

American Bar Association

Jazz Society of Oregon

Oswego Village Townhomes Board of Directors

Education
University of Richmond, J.D.

• Richmond Journal of Global Law and Business


• International Law Society Vice President
  
• Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity

Université de Paris II (Pathéon Assas), European Union Legal Studies Certificate, through Tulane University Law School

Saint Leo University, B.A. (Business Administration-concentration in Management Information Systems), magna cum laude

• Dean’s List
  
• Delta Epsilon Sigma Honor Society

Languages
Fluent in French