Joel N. Bodansky
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I joined HCMP's Business group in 1983. My practice focuses on business and commercial transactions, with an emphasis on business formation, debt and equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, and federal and state securities compliance.

Professional Highlights

•  Worked with Fortune 500 manufacturing company to structure, negotiate and document a multimillion dollar integrated software solution for operation of its manufacturing facilities. Key documents included master commercial agreement, software licenses, support and development agreement, statements of work, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreement, and software escrow agreement.

•  Represented Horizon Airlines in connection with its initial public offering, a subsequent preferred stock offering, and additional securities transactions. Represented the principal shareholder of Horizon Airlines in connection with the acquisition of Horizon by Alaska Airlines.

•  Acted as securities and general corporate counsel to privately-held start-up telecommunications company in connection with the successful raising of over $10 million in equity and debt investment capital through a series of private placement offerings.

•  Represented the developers of a 20-megawatt hydroelectric facility in western Washington in connection with the construction and term financing for the project and in connection with the subsequent restructuring of the ownership of the project and $45 million refinancing.

•  Represented National Development Council and related nonprofit corporations with respect to the structuring, development and financing of various housing and economic development projects, including student housing, medical laboratory facilities, government offices, and a multilevel parking garage which was sold to the City of Seattle as part of the Pacific Place Project in downtown Seattle.

•  On a regular basis, I provide advice and legal representation to clients, both large and small, in connection with the structuring, negotiating, documenting and closing of a wide variety of business combinations and reorganizations (including mergers, stock sales, share exchanges, and asset sales), financings, and other commercial agreements.

•  Recognized as one of the "Super Lawyers" in Washington in 2004, by Washington Law & Politics, a local legal and professional publication.

•  Law Clerk to The Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 1981-1983.

•  Admitted to practice in Washington.

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Professional and Community Activities

Washington State Bar Association; Business Law Section, Chair, 1999-2000; Executive Committee, 1994-2001, 2003-present; Ad Hoc Committee on Third-Party Legal Opinions in Commercial Transactions, 1991-2001.

Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Washington: Board of Trustees, 1993-2005; Secretary, 1993-1995, 2000-2001; Treasurer, 1995-1998; Co-chair of Artistic Director Search Committee, 1999.

Northwest Bookfest Board of Directors, 2000-2004.

Selected Publications and Presentations

Speaker, King County Bar Association 8th Annual Real Estate Institute, 2000.

Chair, WSBA Business Law Section Mid-Year Meeting and Seminar, 1998.

Speaker, WSBA Business Law Section Midyear Meeting and Seminar, 1996.

Editor, WSBA Business Law Section Summary of Current Developments 1993-1994 and Summary of Current Developments 1995-1996.

Between college and law school, I worked for two years at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC as a researcher/editor for The Papers of Joseph Henry, a multi-volume publication. Joseph Henry was a leading nineteenth-century American physicist and the first head of the Smithsonian Institution; his statue guards the entrance to the Smithsonian "castle" on the National Mall in Washington.

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Education

University of Chicago Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1981. Order of the Coif. Associate Editor, University of Chicago Law Review.

Harvard College, A.B., magna cum laude, 1976.

Outside Interests

Parenting, English history, hiking, theatre, and travel.

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