Cara Lowe is a partner in the firm's Business Department and is the managing partner for the firm. Her general business practice focuses on complex commercial transactions and on counseling companies of all sizes. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions, private placement financings, venture capital transactions and other debt and equity financings. In addition to advising partnerships and limited liability companies, she is also involved with employee stock incentive plans and other issuances of securities.

Ms. Lowe represents a variety of start-up, emerging growth and middle-market companies in technology, real estate, professional services and other traditional industries on a variety of corporate matters, including buy-sell agreements, corporate governance matters, incentive compensation plans, employment and service agreements, financings and other complex transactions. Ms. Lowe's practice also involves counseling on entity formation, investor financing, strategic alliances and long-range planning, as well as representing sellers and purchasers in merger and acquisition transactions, and advising in the organization of complex joint ventures.

Ms. Lowe has extensive experience as outside general counsel to real estate developers, funds and investment companies, blending strategic advice with legal advice on all aspects of those businesses, including acquisitions, dispositions, business formation, corporate and capital structure, debt and equity financings, contracts and employment matters. She has lectured and served on numerous panels on various business law topics, particularly limited liability company and buy-sell agreement matters, and has authored articles for the CEB treatise on California partnerships.

Ms. Lowe earned an B.A. degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990. She earned her J.D. from Hastings College of the Law in 1994 and an LL.M degree in Taxation from Golden Gate University School of Law in 2002. While at Hastings, Ms. Lowe served as an Articles Editor for the Constitutional Law Quarterly and as an extern for the Honorable Robert E. Jones of the U.S. District Court of Oregon.