As a Partner at Mercer Oak, I bring a strong foundation in business and finance and exceptional legal skills to help your business succeed. From reviewing and negotiating contracts and helping clients maintain good corporate governance to managing large merger and acquisition transactions, I serve as a trusted advisor to my clients. By consistently providing thoughtful and practical advice, my clients rely on my counsel to guide the strategic decisions in their businesses. I approach legal problems with a business-person's mindset and my legal advice is clear, concise, and well-reasoned. My diverse career experience that has positioned me to help my clients excel in multiple industries and environments and has given me exceptional client service and interpersonal skills. I love a challenge and complex projects with many moving parts are my specialty.

• Built a real estate business from the ground up. Closed $30 million in transactions. Put my business development skills into action to develop and maintain loyal client relationships and referrals.• Completed the Ninja sales course and developed excellent sales skills.• Excellent interpersonal abilities and experience working successfully with a wide variety of personalities.• Marketing skills including print, internet and in-person marketing and marketing strategy; experience with personal branding and collaborating with Marketing Department. Built and maintained a CRM database of contacts for marketing purposes.• Strategic thinking and negotiation skills.

• Dynamic corporate law practice focused on assisting clients with U.S. and cross-border securities matters, corporate governance matters, merger and acquisition transactions and commercial contracts.• Regularly represented public company clients with all aspects of, and drafted disclosure documentation in connection with, periodic reporting requirements and both public and private offerings of debt and equity securities.• Advised public company clients regarding compliance with stock exchange listing obligations.• Experience working on a variety of business combination transactions, from public company mergers and multinational business combinations to private equity investments and strategic acquisitions for mid-market and family-owned companies; represented clients as both buyer’s and seller’s counsel; drafted, reviewed and negotiated transaction documents, including merger agreements, asset purchase agreements and stock purchase agreements, and assisted with all aspects of a transaction.• Drafted board resolutions and board meeting minutes, prepared materials for board meetings, formed corporate entities, performed legal research, and assisted clients with other corporate governance matters.• Drafted and negotiated commercial contracts for clients in varying industries.

• Assisted public company clients with the preparation and review of periodic reports filed in connection with reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and compliance with stock exchange listing requirements.• Drafted disclosure documentation for registered securities offerings in the U.S., including offerings of debt, equity and asset-backed securities, as both issuer’s counsel and underwriter’s counsel.• Drafted transaction documents and disclosure schedules in merger and acquisition transactions, including transactions with an international component. • Performed due diligence review in connection with merger and acquisition transactions.• Drafted board resolutions, formed corporate entities and assisted with restructuring of corporate form, prepared materials for board meetings, and researched and wrote memoranda on various legal topics.