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Experience
Downey Brand LLP, Managing Partner; Executive Committee, Member; Business Department, Former Chair
Serve as general counsel for approximately 50 corporations
Serve as primary counsel for buyers and sellers in numerous business and real estate acquisitions
Routinely represent start-ups and growth companies in obtaining financing
Serve as primary counsel for securities offerings
Served as primary counsel in the negotiation and formation of over $4 Billion of institutional hedge funds
Negotiate and craft complex agreements for companies on the forefront of finding new means of producing energy
Raise venture capital financing and ultimately negotiate and document large scale private equity transactions
Served as primary counsel in numerous workout and reorganization transactions
Serve as primary counsel in the creation of real estate ventures
Serve as primary counsel in the creation of joint venture relationships
Former Law Clerk to Judge Thomas J. MacBride, United States District Court, Eastern District of California
MEMBERSHIPS
Sacramento Area Commerce and Trade Organization (SACTO), President July 2006 - Present; Member Board of Directors and Executive Committee; Former General Counsel; Past Chair Membership Retention Committee
State Bar of California, Business & Intellectual Property Sections, Member
Sacramento County Bar Association, Business & Intellectual Property Sections, Member
United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, Admitted to Practice
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce City to City Trip, Seattle, Past Chairman
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, Member; Executive Committee, Former Member; Former General Counsel
Sacramento Rotary Club, Member
Sacramento Zoological Society, Board of Directors, Former Member
The Sutter Club, Board of Directors, Former Member
EDUCATION
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. (J.D., Order of the Coif, 1986)
University of California, Berkeley (B.S., 1981).
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