• private investment funds in investments, acquisitions and acquisition-related financings and Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and Investment Company Act of 1940 exemption and compliance matters;
• institutional investors, including state pension funds, and fund sponsor groups in the formation of private investment funds;
• public and private corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and other entities, including REITs, manufacturing companies, regulated utilities and energy suppliers, with respect to general business and commercial matters;
• public and private companies, including Fortune 500 companies and their boards of directors, in connection with public and private mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, including transactions in distressed industries;
• issuers, including Fortune 500 companies, and underwriters in connection with public and private offerings of equity, debt and trust preferred securities;
• multinational clients in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures;
• public and private companies on takeover matters, including tender offers, proxy contests, consent solicitations and general takeover defense measures; and
• public and private companies on securities laws compliance and corporate governance matters, including board of directors presentations, charter design and compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Recent experience includes:

• representation of fund sponsor groups in connection with fund formations focused on real estate and distressed asset opportunity funds, including in connection with potential participation in recently announced governmental programs;
• representation of various private investors, public pension plans and private pension plans in connection with investments in private equity funds, venture capital funds and hedge funds;
• multiple complex, cross-border divestitures for a leading company in the automotive industry;
• multiple distressed industry and Section 363 bankruptcy M&A transactions; and
• representation of the board of directors of a public utility in its acquisition by an offshore entity in a public company merger transaction.

• Member, Virginia State Bar
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Virginia Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division liaison to Business Law Section 2000-2004; Young Lawyers Division, Executive Committee 2003-2006
• Virginia Law Foundation Committee on Continuing Legal Education, Member 2006-2009
• YMCA of Greater Richmond, Board of Directors
• Richmond Ballet, Board of Directors
• Historic Richmond Foundation, Board of Directors
• Leadership Metro Richmond, Class of 2005

• Recognized by Virginia Business magazine as a member of Virginia's "Legal Elite" in Business Law, 2005, 2008, 2009
• Recognized by Virginia Super Lawyers magazines as one of the "Top 25 Women" in 2009 and 2010 and as a "Virginia Super Lawyer" in 2010, 2009 and 2008 and a "Virginia Rising Star" in 2007 in Business/Corporate Law
• Selected as one of Richmond's "Top Forty Under 40" by Style Weekly magazine, September 2004
• Recipient of 2001 Emerson G. Spies Award, Virginia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division

• J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1994
  
• B.A., University of Virginia, with distinction, History, 1991