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EXPERIENCE
Chair, Downey Brand LLP Corporate Securities and Tax Group (2006 to 2008)
Advise and counsel corporations, limited liability companies and other business entities with regard to corporate governance, including fiduciary duties of officers, directors, members and managers.
Serve as general counsel to numerous for-profit and nonprofit companies.
Serve as lead counsel for buyers and sellers in business acquisitions including stock purchases, asset purchases and mergers.
Negotiate and draft complex financing, joint venture and distribution agreements for U.S. and foreign companies.
Serve as counsel for various international companies with regards to their U.S. operations and investments.
Represent lenders and borrowers in negotiating and documenting bank financing facilities and venture capital financing.
Former Deputy Chief Counsel for the United States Department of Commerce, Office of the General Counsel, Commercial Law Development Program in Washington, D.C.
Consulted with foreign government officials in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and the Middle East to identify laws, regulations and practices that act as barriers to international business, commercial transactions, trade and investment.
Part of U.S. Government inter-agency team that formulated and implemented strategies for addressing the legal and systemic problems faced by centrally-planned economies as they make the transition to an open-market economy.
MEMBERSHIPS
Pacific McGeorge International Advisory Committee, Member
Corporations Committee of the Business Law Section, State Bar of California, Former Co-Chair; Former Member
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Member Executive Committee of the Board, Former General Counsel
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber Foundation, General Counsel
Sacramento County Bar Association, Business and International Law Sections, Member; Legislative Committee of the Business Section, Member and Past Vice-Chair
California Society of Association Executives, Associate Member
American Bar Association, Business and International Law Sections, Member
State Bar of California, Business and International Law Sections, Member
EDUCATION
George Washington University, School of Law, Washington, D.C. (LL.M., 1996) University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (J.D., 1993)
University of California, Davis (B.A., 1989) | 