Representative Experience
Corporate law with focus on mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, and joint ventures

Representative Transactions
Washington counsel for Amdocs in its $275 million acquisition of Qpass, Inc.

Lead transaction counsel for Education Assistance Foundation in the for-profit conversion and sale of its $1.6 billion loan portfolio to Sallie Mae and the transfer of its membership interest in its $4.5 billion guaranty portfolio to USA Funds

Lead transaction counsel for heavy equipment leasing company in sale to a private equity fund

Lead transaction counsel for Wizkids, LLC in cash out merger with the Topps Company

Investment management joint venture among public company and private investors

Lead transaction counsel in leveraged buyout and spin-off of W&H Pacific, Inc. from bankruptcy

Lead transaction counsel for personal representatives and estates in divestitures of businesses

Lead transaction counsel for Crothall Services Group in international cash out merger valued over $200 million

Counsel to Associated Grocers, Incorporated in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and recapitalization with largest customer

Acquisition counsel for Advanced TelCom Group in series of taxable and tax free CLEC and ISP acquisitions

Represented CHIP REIT in $37 million sale, leaseback, and management of franchised hotel with public port

Represented buyer in leveraged acquisition of four fish catching and processing companies

Represented Tyson Foods, Inc. in the sale of its international Seafood Division to two buyers in investment banker sponsored auction

Represented Seattle Times Company in successful bid to acquire five newspaper businesses in the State of Maine

Memberships and Activities
Selected to "Washington Rising Stars," Washington Law & Politics, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, and 2008 editions

Limited Liability Company Act Revision Committee of the Washington State Bar Association

Former member of the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association

Washington State Bar Association

Michigan State Bar Association (inactive)

American Bar Association

Education
Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Executive, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Exempt Organizations, Graduate Tax Program, University of Washington School of Law

J.D., cum laude, Boston College Law School, 1993

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