Representative Experience
Mergers and acquisitions
Venture capital financings and private placements
Joint ventures and strategic alliances
Technology transfers and licensing
Formation and restructuring of business entities
Recent Transactions
$225 million asset sale of telecommunications company
Stock sale of cancer diagnostic research and manufacturing company
Numerous venture capital financings and private placements
Spin-off and reorganization of public company
$31 million acquisition of domestic and European division of public company
$35 million merger of private healthcare companies
Representative Clients
Microsoft Corporation; Pacific Aerospace & Electronics, Inc.; Pioneer Human Services; Sage Manufacturing Corp.; Starbucks Corporation
Publications and Presentations
Speaker at legal seminars on a variety of business law topics, including mergers and acquisitions, stock option plans, choice of business entity and coping with business regulations
Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association
Past or present board member for various organizations, including Seafair and Northwest MIT Enterprise Forum
Selected to "Super Lawyers," Washington Law & Politics, 2001-2005
Emerging Business and Technology Group, founding member
Education
J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 1988
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Washington Law Review
B.A., summa cum laude, Washington State University, 1980
Also attended: University of Copenhagen; Goethe Institute, Berlin
