Education: William Mitchell College of Law
Degree: JD
Year: 2001
Honors: cum laude

Key Practice Experience

• Represent public and private companies in complex mergers and acquisitions
• Represent companies in private equity financing arrangements
• Advise clients on business reorganizations
• Advise clients on joint venture and strategic alliance arrangements
• Advise clients on complex business and commercial transactions
• Manage and negotiate client contracts
• Advise boards, officers and business owners on entity governance matters and commercial arrangements
• Advise start-up businesses on entity formation and general corporate matters
• Provide advice on trademark and copyright matters

Key Industry Experience

• Health Care
• Manufacturing
• Financial Services
• Retail
• Technology
• Entertainment

Representative Cases/Transactions

• Represented a Florida holding company in the acquisition of three Midwest home healthcare agencies from a national network of human services providers
• Represented a global medical technology company in private equity financing arrangements with various medical device start-up entities throughout the United States
• Represented  a national health and fitness company in the acquisition of a California based race management company
• Represented privately-held furniture company in shareholder cross-purchase transaction
• Represented a large Minneapolis-based publishing company in the sale of assets to an international information services company
• Represented a national multi-billion dollar health insurance company in the acquisition of an East Coast health insurance company
• Represented a national health care information and research company in the acquisition of a prominent public policy research group from a global biopharmaceutical company
• Represented a North Carolina-based spinal products company in a merger with a major orthopaedic company
• Advised various privately-held medical device start-up companies in private equity financings
• Developed in-store clinic services model for Fortune 500 retail company
• Reorganized business structure for a healthcare therapy center
• Advised a closely-held music academy in a private equity financing

Selected Publications/Presentations

• Doing Deals and Making Money: Healthcare Transactions and Financing, St. Paul, MN, 8th Annual Get Connected! Conference, International Institute for Women Entrepreneurs, The College of St. Catherine (2008)

Professional Honors

• Minnesota Rising Stars 2010

Community Involvement

• Volunteer Attorney, Children’s Law Center

Other Education

B.A., College of St. Benedict, 1993