Focuses on corporate and global merger and acquisition matters, working with Owners, Founders, Presidents/CEOs and Boards in due diligence, negotiations and closings. Recent client engagements include: - Sale of a privately owned energy services business. - Advised a Brazilian owned company on issues relating to expanding business into the United States. Assisted the British Virgin Islands parent company with governance and regulatory matters. - Drafted documentation for a successful subordinated promissory note offering. - Equity restructuring of a process systems design & fabrication business. - Designed and implemented new structure for a combined medical practice including creation of a management service organization.- Sale of a privately owned environmental remediation and emergency response business to a Brazilian purchaser.FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER (1992-1998) (formerly Cassell & Stone, LLP)Responsible for marketing, operations, recruitment, budgeting, compensation, and HR matters. Supervised support staff and mentored attorneys. Developed practices and procedures to make the M&A process from due diligence through closing, a more orderly and complete process through assignments of specific responsibilities to different level attorneys as they gained more experience with transactional work. Served as company General Counsel and served on the Board for 16 years for a technology company, providing software and services in the automotive, insurance, financial services, telecom technology and media industries. Notable deliverables: - Completed nine acquisitions of both private and public companies.- Restructured the company to eliminate minority shareholders.- Participated in tender offer for outstanding shares of a publicly held subsidiary. For six years, served as outside General Counsel for an industrial cleaning and environmental services company providing legal advice and completing four acquisitions.

PARTNER (1998-2014); SENIOR COUNSEL (2014-2016)Served as a Member of Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group during tenure. Served on the Business Development Committee. Handled numerous public and private transactions domestically and for in-bound foreign clients. Participated in public offering of securities, proxy statement preparation and tender offers. Advised start-ups software companies and mature companies in different industries. Mentored and trained several associates. - For several years, spoke annually at ABA Practicing Law Institute seminars. Presented "Representing the Growing Technology Company" focusing on the sale of a business as an exit strategy.