Professional
Highlights
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Represented Botanical Laboratories, Inc., an FDA-regulated manufacturer
of nutritional supplements and homeopathic producs, and its shareholders
in connection with the sale of that company to a group of venture funds.
• Represented
the owners of the Mann Building, a historic property in downtown Seattle
that is the new home of the Wild Ginger restaurant. We assisted the company
with a complex restructuring that involved two securities offerings (a
multi-million-dollar offering of one class of limited liability company
interests and a separate offering of another class of interests to investors
who made cash investments in exchange for an allocation of historic rehabilitation
tax credits resulting from the renovation of the building), construction
and permanent financing, negotiation of commercial office leases with
several tenants, and a myriad of other issues.
• Special
securities counsel to Doghouse Productions, LLC, a developer of sophisticated
web sites for major health care industry companies. We assisted Doghouse
in two related transactions involving First Consulting Group, Inc. ("FCG"),
a publicly-held corporation: (i) the sale of Doghouse's web development
business to a subsidiary of FCG, including a stock purchase agreement,
registration rights agreement, and related documents; and (ii) the creation
of a subsidiary of Doghouse to pursue the development of a related but
distinct set of web design tools, with a venture capital investment by
an affiliate of FCG in Series A preferred stock of the new subsidiary.
• Represented
Ferrous Corporation, a Washington distributor of fuel additives, in its
acquisition by Bycosin AB, a Swedish corporation, and in the resolution
of various shareholder matters.
• Counsel
to Envision Telephony, Inc., which develops and markets computer telephony
software products. We assisted Envision's founders in the formation of
the company in 1994, and we have since represented the company in a wide
range of matters, including software license agreements, employment issues,
and several rounds of early-stage financing and related securities issues.
• Counsel
to a group of angel investors who came together several years ago to make
seed capital investments in technology companies. We have assisted the
founders in the formation of a series of limited liability companies,
in legal issues regarding potential investments, and in the negotiation
of the terms of those investments.
• Admitted
to practice in the State of Washington.
• Before
law school, I was a Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator John C. Danforth,
with responsibility for defense, foreign policy, and budget matters (1982
to 1986).
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Professional
and Community Activities
First Place School; Board of Directors, 2005 - present. First Place provides
education in grades K - 5 for children from homeless families. It also
provides counseling, case management and social services to those children
and their families.
Council member and former Chair, Pike Place Market Preservation &
Development Authority ("PDA"), 1998-2006. The PDA is a nonprofit
public corporation chartered by the City of Seattle in 1973 to serve as
caretaker and steward of the city's historic public market center. The
PDA is landlord and manager of most of the real estate in the nine-acre
Market, responsible for the Market's operations and for relations with
the Market's farmers, craftspeople, merchants, residents (most of whom
are low-income seniors), and service providers. The PDA employs 85 people
and has a budget of over $9 million. The Council is a 12-member volunteer
board that provides oversight and policy direction to the PDA and its
staff.
Independent Employment Services, Inc. ("IES"); Board of Directors,
1991-1999; President of the Board, 1993. IES is a nonprofit corporation
that trains people with developmental, physical and emotional disabilities
and places them in mainstream employment.
American Bar Association; Business Law Section.
Washington State Bar Association; Business Law and Intellectual Property
Sections.
King County Bar Association; Section on Technology and the Law.
Education
University of Virginia, J.D., 1989. Executive Editor, Journal of Law
& Politics, 1988-1989.
Princeton University, B.A., 1982.
Outside
Interests
Trying to keep up with my son and daughter. I also like to spend time
outdoors, especially cycling (road and mountain) and skiing. Other priorities
include promoting the Pike Place Market and the abolition of the designated
hitter.
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