Legal Services

Representing and counseling business, individual, quasi-public and public
for-profit and non-profit clients in

•  real estate  •  corporate  •  financing  •  tax •  entity formation  •  joint venture  • art and entertainment law • intellectual property  •  organizational development  •  mergers and acquisitions •  estate planning  • family business succession planning •

Education

William Mitchell College of Law
J.D., magna cum laude

Summary Description: Professional Experience

Two decades of real estate, business, management and finance experience
across a broad spectrum of business disciplines, including:

Owner representation and counsel
Entity formation, reorganization, and dissolution

Negotiation and drafting of real estate, purchase, financing, tax, joint venture, employment, franchising, intellectual property, secured transaction and general corporate/business documents and matters

• Entertainment law representation
• Dispute analysis and resolution
• Family business succession representation
• Estate and trust planning 
• Strategic planning
• Organizational development'
• Risk analysis
• Equity/debt capital representation for entrepreneurial and later-stage companies

EMPHASIS ON PROVIDING EFFICIENT REPRESENTATION THROUGH ENTREPRENEURIAL, TEAM PROCESSES

Skills Base

Ability to responsibly represent and advise clients
Understanding of what it takes to build and maintain business relationships
Expertise to intelligently analyze and articulate quality, innovative solutions to difficult issues
Command of the big picture, together with thorough attention to detail