Areas of Practice
Financial institutions, commercial and real estate finance, general business law

Representative Experience
Real estate financing, including affordable housing

Financing, negotiating and documenting leveraged buyouts

Asset-based lending

Multi-lender credits, participation, syndications, and subordinations

Mergers and acquisitions

Factoring

Workouts

Prior Experience
Adjunct professor, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College

Staff attorney for the Honorable Herbert M. Schwab, Chief Judge, Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon

Memberships and Activities
Co-Chair, DWT Finance and Commercial Transactions Practice Group

Regional Chair for North America, Bank Finance and Regulation Practice Group of Lex Mundi (the world’s leading association of independent law firms)

Past chair and current member, Oregon State Bar Financial Institutions Executive Committee

Associate member, Oregon Bankers Association

Past board member, Northwest Financial Symposium

Past board member, Portland Art Museum

Past board member, Portland Civic Theater

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Banking Law by Woodward/White, 2003-2004; 2005-06; 2006; 2007; 2008

Named as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" in Financial Institutions and Transaction Law by Woodward/White, 2005-2006; 2006

Named one of “Portland’s Best Lawyers” in banking law by Portland Monthly, 2006

Education
J.D., cum laude, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College

M.A., Claremont Graduate School

B.S. in Economics, Pomona College