Ander is an accomplished attorney with a practice dedicated to assisting clients on a wide range of business transactions. Ander has spent several years partnering with business counterparts (executives and management, sales teams, project managers, finance underwriters, etc.) on a broad array of commercial transactions. His experience also includes extensive time counseling corporate executives in a collaborative manner on strategic transactions and other matters to achieve beneficial outcomes. His comfortable demeanor, sense of humor and congenial communication skills make him very approachable, and further, they work well to facilitate productive negotiations, whether internal or with opposing counsel. Ander’s professional enthusiasm arises largely from creative structuring, negotiating and drafting business deals and complex commercial contracts. His experience includes working on many types of deals and contracts, included among these are: deal structuring, joint ventures and strategic alliances; letters of intent, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions (M&A); development and licensing agreements, involving software, other intellectual property and professional services; non-disclosure/confidentiality, employment, sales and distributions contracts; financing transactions (both lender and borrower-side); recording contracts; real estate development, leasing and construction; and entity formation and general corporate governance. Through this broad breadth of experience, Ander has developed effective interpersonal communication skills, both written and verbal, and a keen business acumen, with an ability to propose creative solutions and exercise negotiating flexibility.You may contact him at Ander@AnderSmithLaw.com.